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What are the best security conferences?

August 12, 2007

I’ve been traveling more than usual for the past year or so, enjoying some of the better-known security conferences. Overall, I’ve had a great experience, and the professional networking opportunities have been excellent. Still, it’s nice to be able to prioritize, and it’s difficult to hit all of the top-tier cons, even in two years. Anybody have any recommendations about which security cons are the best?

Here are the ones I’m familiar with:

http://www.rsaconference.com/

http://www.blackhat.com/

http://www.defcon.org/

http://seattle.toorcon.org/

I’ve been told that these are good:

http://www.cansecwest.com/

http://www.toorcon.org/intro.php

http://conference.hackinthebox.org/

http://deepsec.net/

Some lists of others:

http://www.iacr.org/events/