Black Hat USA 2008 Briefings and Training

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas August 2-7, 2008

Training: August 2-3 (Weekend) & August 4-5 (Weekday)
Briefings: August 6-7

Paid delegates of the Black Hat Briefings USA will receive free admission to DEFCON 16.

Selected Black Hat USA 2008 Training. The Training Schedule is now available. New courses for 2008:

• Advanced Web Application Penetration Testing by Aspect Security
• The Art of Developing Effective Intrusion Detection/Prevention Signatures by Rohit Dhamankar & Rob King
• Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH) Version 6 by EC-Council
• Cryptographic Primitives: A Close Look Inside by Andrew Lindell
• Defend the Flag (DTF) by Microsoft, iSEC Partners, and Immunity
• ECSA/LPT Certification Preparation by EC-Council
• Effective Fuzzing: Using the Peach Fuzzing Platform by Michael Eddington
• Exploits 101 by Allen Harper
• Hacking by Numbers: Web 2.0 by SensePost
• Hands on Penetration Testing with BackTrack 3: 0wning the Network by Offensive Security
• Inside Hacking and Malware by WetStone Technologies
• Leading, Planning, and Executing an Application Security Initiative by Aspect Security
• Lock Picking and Physical Security: From Beginner to Expert by Deviant Ollam
• Memory Forensics in Incident Response by Jamie Butler
• Reverse Engineering Rootkits by Greg Hoglund & Rich Cummings, HBGary
• SAP (In)security by Mariano Nuñez Di Croce, CYBSEC
• SCADA Defense: Protecting Critical Infrastructure by IOActive

Black Hat USA 2008 Briefings Schedule. There will be 10 different tracks, over 2 days comprised of over 90 renown information and computer security professionals.

Black Hat USA 2008 Briefings Speakers. Selected presenters are now online. Topic titles, abstracts and speaker bios may be found here.

See our current Black Hat USA 2008 Sponsors.

Hotel & Venue information for Black Hat USA 2008 Briefings and Training. In the past, our block has been sold out 6 weeks in advance of the show—make your reservations early.

Press Registration: press must register before the conference.

Have a question about your registration, or the conference in general? Try our FAQ (2008).

Wireless internet access is available during the show.

Our official on-site bookseller is BreakPoint Books.
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