TROOPERS10 - This time it's a home match.

Finally we uploaded the slides of TROOPERS10 - please have a look here. Additionally more and more videos of the talks are coming available on www.viddler.com/TROOPERS/.

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Best wishes,
Your TROOPERS team

This year we're bringing back the action right to the place where everything started: Heidelberg, Germany.

In 2007 the idea of a security conference without the usual product presentations, marketing blabla, and bull*ht-bingo was born – just pure practical IT security. After an enthusiastic response from our audiences in Munich we decided to evolve the concept into a full-blown conference combined with a series of workshops and round tables.

We're inviting (C)ISOs, IT auditors, sysadmins, security consultants and everyone who is involved with IT security to come to Heidelberg and get in touch with leading experts from all over the world. A number of workshops on monday and tuesday covers highly relevant topics in detail, on wednesday and thursday you'll learn about the latest developments, threats and achievements from world class security evangelists, experts and hackers. And on friday we seat you on round tables right next to the speakers and fellow experts. You'll be able to discuss your own strategies and concerns with them face-to-face. You will be listened to, because in the end of the day we're all the same: TROOPERS in the infosec world.

THE CONCEPT BEHIND TROOPERS

Today, information is power - and sharing information is the multiplication of power. We experience an era where connectivity is not a feature anymore – it´s just there.Technologically & socially everyone and everything is connected to anything & anyone, anytime. Given this, the ability to control who can collect, store, process and digest information is one of the key assets of every organization, be it .com, .org, .gov or .mil.

But the benefits of today´s technologies also bring a wide range of attack vectors right into the core of our networks. The ever-changing attack strategies and methodologies make some of the "traditional“ network-security concepts obsolete. This setting and the subsequent need to master our profession led to our conference's credo:

'get skilled or get owned'

The goal is to share in-depth knowledge about the aspects of attacking and defending information technology infrastructure and applications. The featured presentations and demonstrations represent the latest discoveries and developments of the global hacking scene and corporate infosec practitioners and will provide the audience with valuable practical know-how.

WHO HOSTS THIS CON AND WHY?

TROOPERS10 is hosted by ERNW GmbH, an independent information security consultancy and assessment company from Heidelberg, Germany. In the past years, speakers from ERNW were invited all around the world to present their latest ITsec research results and to share their knowledge within the global hacking and infosec community. With this global experience in mind, in 2008 ERNW decided to launch an international conference in Germany. Reconfirmed by the success of the year 2009 edition we decided to step up and take this thing to the next level. Once more it's going to be an event unlike most other "security conferences": No pointless marketing talks, just high-end workshops with hands-on experiences and most important: You'll get real answers and practical benefits to meet today´s and tomorrow's threats.

You're a TROOPER and your next boot camp is scheduled for 8 - 12th of March 2010, Heidelberg, Germany.