Now that I’m back from Las Vegas and have had a week to dig out from under email and work tasks, I’d like to share a short post-con wrap-up.

The Black Hat Briefings 2008 were a good time. Just as important as the briefings, I had a lot of fun meeting new people, seeing old friends, and networking with others in the security community. Our industry is really based on trust and trusted relationships, so I always try and get out and mingle at the con.

Both of my DEFCON presentations seemed to be really well received. I was surprised with the large turnout Friday 10am for my web application firewall (WAF) talk, given that my slot was competing directly with the Dark Tangent’s annual DEFCON keynote and Joe “Kingpin” Grand’s talk on the making of this year’s badge. There were a few good questions, so at least someone was awake and paying attention.

My Friday afternoon talk on Snort plug-in development was very well attended. A group of Sourcefire employees were filling out the front row. They didn’t throw any rotten vegetables at me, so I figure I did alright.

Updated presentation materials should be getting posted to the DEFCON site soon. Here are links to the slides for my WAF talk, and slides for my Snort-plug-in development talk. I’m busy adding to my Snort preprocessor for weak SSH2 Diffie-Hellman Group Key Exchange, and should be releasing some new code released in the next few weeks.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 at 3:17 am.

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