Vancouver B.C.
In-Person / On-Line
Conference: May 18 - 20
Dojo: May 14 - 17
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In-Person and On-Line
CanSecWest 2022 - Will be held in-person AND on-line next year.
In-person conference will be at the Sheraton Wall Center Vancouver May 18-20 with simultaneous access on-line.
Security Masters Dojos will also be both on-line and in-person May 14-17.
Early registration for both in-person and on-line access is now available at https://register.cansecwest.com - save up to $800 over full price door ticket prices by booking as soon as possible.
Among the announcements coming for CanSecWest will be a new vendor display area, and sponsorship options. We will require all attendees, volunteeers, and staff, verify their COVID immunization status.
We have decided to undertake the complex problem of doing a hybrid conference allowing both physical and remote attendees.
Presentations for Cansecwest 2022
Date Added: February 9, 2022
Last Updated: Feburary 17, 2022
We have added some new presentations to the CanSecWest 2022 lineup.
PWN Windows: From Low to System Privilege via RASMAN Service by Ziming Zhang
Securing the 3rd Party Software Life Cycle by Kesav Nimmagadda and Neha Shukla
Bad ALAC: One codec to hack the whole world by Slava Makkaveev and Netanel Ben Simon
Bypassing Falco: Cluster Compromise without Tripping the SOC by Shay Berkovich
FirmWire: Taking Baseband Security Analysis to the Next Level by Grant Hernandez, Dominik Maier and Marius Muench
Defeating Stack Canaries and Memory Safety with Speculative Execution by Andrea Mambretti and Anil Kurmus
Mystique Hits: Vulnerability Chain that breaks the Android Application Sandbox by Dawn Security Lab
Talk To Your Doctor About If Protocols Are Right For You: Vulnerabilities in HL7 Protocols by Zachary Minneker
When eBPF meets TLS! by Guillaume Valadon
Thanks for Leaving the Lights On by Adam Doherty
Exploiting Relational and Non-Relational Java Databases by Xu Yuanzhen(pyn3rd) & Chen Hongkun(Litch1)
For the full list, click here.
Also, new Dojos!
x86-64 Assembly by Xeno Kovah
x86-64 OS Internals by Xeno Kovah
x86-64 Intel Firmware Attack & Defense by Xeno Kovah
x86-64 All You Can Learn Buffet! by Xeno Kovah
Cognitive Security: defending against misinformation, disinformation and other information harms by SJ Terp
Assessing and Exploiting Control Systems and IIoT by Justin Searle
Evil Mainframe Hacking by Phil Young
Machine Learning for Program Analysis by Hahna Kane Latonick
Heap Exploitation by Maxwell Dulin
An Update on Cansecwest 2022
Date Added: January 19, 2022
We are moving the CanSecWest dates to May 18-20 to steer clear of the predicted decline period of this next and hopefully last COVID wave.
There is actually a lot of good news with COVID21/Omicron, even though cases are shooting up 200%-600% per week in North America, hospitalizations are tracking much smaller amounts and decoupling from the infection numbers, and in general there are no unvaccinated folks in ICU and almost none hospitalized among the boosted with this new milder variant. Some knowledgeable folks and modeling are saying that the cases are already peaking because it's a such fast burn with a much shorter 2-3 day incubation period, and it's basically powering through the unvaccinated folks that are the fuel for the infections. (Vaccinated folks experience 10x less transmission from some studies.)
In Canada around 15% of the people are unvaccinated (BC about 10%), and by the time you do the math on how many were previously infected, plus the huge case counts over the holidays and growth we continue to see, it looks like there might be a light at the end of this long dark tunnel. Sewage virus level monitoring in various spots in North America, which seem to lead the case counts by about a week, are already showing declines.
However, that still doesn't leave enough planning time for folks to comfortably attend a conference in March, so we've worked with the Sheraton to reschedule the bookings to May.
Because of the date shift folks once again get a chance to book with early discounted rates and we will also accept late CFP entries for a short period of time, though we will start sending out some talk acceptance notes and putting them up on the agenda starting today. Dojo training announcements will be coming shortly.
Re: Whistler - this is still a little bit up in the air. We might still do a ski trip in March with our existing booking - because I'm that confident based on COVID decline numbers from places that had Omicron hit early. The new conference dates are literally at the very last days of the ski lift operation, but we don't know if there will be enough snow to ski (in shorts presumably 🙂 ), and the weather in that "shoulder" season there means that we may plan some other post-conf activity such as whitewater rafting. However, that's a quiet time in Whistler bookings so availability is high. More info soon.
Please note that according to government regulations attendees and staff must be immunized, and we will be requiring proof of boosted COVID vaccination status at registration. At the current time we also plan to have daily rapid antigen tests for attendees, which we will provide, supplies permitting.
--Dragos
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