Boston’s BeanSec Is This Monday! For The Love Of God!

Thomas Ptacek | August 11th, 2006 | Filed Under: Gatherings, Uncategorized

The Boston iteration of our security meetup saga starts… now! Or, rather, this Monday August 14, 2006. ChiSec, NYSEC, and SeaSec have worked nicely. There are lots of security people in Boston. This meetup was organized by Oliver Day, Chris Wysopal, and Christofer Hoff. It is highly likely that BeanSec will be the best security thing you go to in Boston all year. At least, that’s what Oliver tells me.

We’ll have a web page up soon, but in the meantime:

What

An informal meetup of information security professionals and academics in the Cambridge/Boston area. Unlike other meetings, you will not be expected to pay dues, “join up”, present a zero-day exploit, or defend your dissertation to attend. (… but Oliver, my dissertation rules!)

Where

Enormous Room

That’s in Central Square, Cambridge. You take the red line on the T to the Central Square stop and walk to blocks or park at any of the nearby parking garages on Green Street, and if you think I know what any of that means, you’re on crazy pills. Here’s a map.

When

BeanSec 1 is this Monday, at 6:00PM. We’re aiming for the middle of every other month. They’ll stay until

Enormous Room

gets packed (that joke getting old yet?) or they kick us out. Plan for roughly three hours.

Why

Boston has enough formal events, like ISSA, and elite events like 2621. This is just a way for locals in the field to get to know each other.

4 Comments so far

  • Map of Beansec

    August 11th, 2006 10:22 pm

    Click for the flyer. The Enormous Room is upstairs from Central Kitchen. The door to the left has an elephant on it and those stairs will lead you to Beansec!

  • Jason Haley

    August 11th, 2006 10:35 pm

    Interesting Finds: August 10 part 2 and August 11, 2006

  • Oliver Day

    August 14th, 2006 11:31 pm

    Thanks to everyone who made it out to BeanSec1! It was an interesting mix of corporate, academic, military(!), and independent security minds. Exactly what I was hoping for. We hope to see more of you out there next time and I’ll make sure there is more then a three day notice.

  • Bob Keyes

    December 11th, 2006 11:12 am

    November’s BeanSec was my first, and it was fun. Hope to make it to others. Where’s this mailing list I hear about, and what happened to that ‘favorite vulnerabilities’ list?

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