The Cyber Security Show Conference

Attended the Cyber Security Show organized by Terrapinn in conjunction with the IOT Show. Took place in Suntec City Exhibition hall and held on the 22nd to 23rd September 2015. Although 70% of the booths were concentrated on the IoT, the sponsored talks were actually good to listen to. One of the unique things for this conference was that there were a series of table discussions where notable professionals in the security industry gave a topic for a round table discussion. This is definitely something conferences should have especially if one of the agenda is to allow delegates to network and what better way to network then to start off with a round table discussion, getting to know each other and exchanging business cards.

Talks by various vendors

How the exhibition hall looks

The round table discussion. Here, Anthony Lim, one of Singapore's Cyber Security pioneer discussed on the topic of Cloud Security.

Null Singapore Security Meetup - June

Null Singapore is back for the fifth time and like last month, it was a full house and another record of an attendance! Credits given to NSHC Pte Ltd for providing us a room for us to have our meetup.

We start our meetup by introducing ourselves, what Null Singapore is all about, its aims, its objectives and how does this meetup benefit the audience from networking to potential cooperation with one another. This was presented by Prasanna or PK as Imran, the chapter leader was away.

Randen then presented on the security news bytes, the security events that happened in the last few weeks ranging from malware, phishing and critical infrastructures.

Michael Heinzl, from SEC Consult presented on the topic 'Finding vulnerabilities using Fuzzing'. It was an interesting topic as he demonstrates how fuzzing assist in the finding of unknown vulnerabilities and how such vulnerabilities could be turn into an exploit to further penetrate into the systems/applications. Sharing statistics of his research and end with a cool demo, Michael was able to show the audience not just in a theoretical sense but in a practical way as well.

Vincent Tan, from Vantage Point presented on the topic 'Breaking BYOD in IOS'. This was an extremely interesting talk as he shares his research and how IOS can be broken into with tools that he developed. I would not dive into the contents of his presentations (as agreed), but i'd say the delivery of the presentations, the demonstrations and the key takeaways are properly formatted and presented.

Both presenters ended with a round of applause and it was really great to see people enjoying the presentations and coming up to the speakers to know more about it. Alas, after it was all over, the 'after scene' networking session starts. I see people from different companies shaking each other's hands, getting to know each other despite the 'competition'. This is exactly what security meetups are all about... in conferences, we are never competitors...we are all enthusiasts...

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Black Hat Asia 2015

I have always wanted to attend a Black Hat conference ever since i heard about it 10 years ago, the time when i was interested in security and hacking. However, due to the steep price in the tickets to attend, i've never been able to afford myself a ticket. Imagine a 2 days conference cost between $1800 to $2000. 

So when I was told that Codenomicon is going to have a booth in Black Hat Asia and i will be involved in it...i was ecstatic and happy! I never would have imagined myself being in one of the most talked conferences in the world especially knowing Black Hat's presence in Asia, USA and Europe. 

So we came on the day before the conference to set up the booth and in the back of my head i just couldnt wait for the real thing to happen - the event itself. 

Our booth was situated in the Business Hall room and there were other companies including Tripwire, Cisco, Qualys, Tenable, Vectra and Logrhythm. There were also another business hall room which has another set of companies and organizations including ISC(2), OWASP and etc. 

While the event starts at 9am (keynote), the Business Hall is supposed to start at 10am. However, at 9.30am, people started coming in and visiting the booths. Lucky for me, i was there early to get things ready...plugged in my laptop and prep the demos for Codenomicon's products. 

I had the opportunity to attend the briefing as i was holding the briefing pass and listened to some talks. While the topics were interesting, the delivery of the topic was not as enthusiastic as i was expecting. And i was even surprised by the attendance as it wasn't a full house (unlike most conferences i attended in the past). The set up of the stage was great, similar like the one in DefCamp (Romania) where i spoke at last year. 

But despite certain level of expectations not being met, the best part of the event was the networking session, where i got to meet ex-colleagues, fellow hackers from India, friends from LinkedIn, security enthusiasts from all over the world. It was the best experience of the 2 days event.

Overall, i had fun. After speaking to some of my friends who have attended the event in Vegas and Europe, according to them, the ones there, are 10 to 20 times bigger than here. Wow! That was my expression! How big could it be there! And I am sure will make it a point to attend them one day! 

The Codenomicon Team