Phoenix, Arizona Presents: SunSec

Thomas Ptacek | May 30th, 2007 | Filed Under: Gatherings, Uncategorized

Courtesy of Rich Mogull and friends: SunSec, the Phoenix CitySec meetup. It’s tomorrow, at 7PM, at Four Peaks in Tempe.

The usual endorsements and enticements apply: no membership required, no RSVP needed, no dues, no minutes, no vendor presentations. Just show up and get to know the locals in your field. Phoenix has lots of security people; help them get to know each other by drinking beer with them.

It’s a hardship, I know, but it’s time you gave something back, isn’t it?

4 Comments so far

  • b1ff

    May 31st, 2007 11:02 am

    I’ve referred to this in conversation as SillySec, not CitySec.

    Is there really a need for ANOTHER Information Security type group meeting?

    In Phoenix, there already is Infragard, ISSA, OWASP, 2600, Sonoran Desert Security Users Group, AZ Security Practitioners Forum, and I’m probably forgetting a few others..

    Guess what the policy is, for all of those meetings?

    No membership required, no RSVP needed, no dues, no minutes, no vendor presentations. The one exception is Infragard where there are certain meetings which are members-only, like the tour of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Facility… Only people who undergo the FBI background check can attend that meeting.

    Friday night at 7 PM? At a popular crowded bar where it’s already difficult to get a table? Assuming you can find the 3 nerds who show up, no one will be able to hear each.

    Maybe I’ll show up, anyway. If I remember right, Mogull is one of the Gartner anal-ists. I’m surprised Gartner would let him put this together - I thought they had a modified taxi meter that ran every time you talk to an anal-ist of theirs.

  • Jeremiah Blatz

    May 31st, 2007 11:43 am

    Clearly, you Phoenix folks need even more excuses to drink. I hear it’s hot and dry out there, maybe you just get thirsty?

    On a (somewhat) more serious note, NYSec has a very different vibe that the other security meet-ups I’ve been to.

  • Robert

    May 31st, 2007 3:12 pm

    Nerds 2 and 3 sit on either side of me. We are located in Tempe too, so a quick trip to 4 Peaks is a no brainer. It not Friday, BTW, it’s Thursday (today), and it probably will be busy there. But we in PHX don’t need another excuse to drink beer, as the dry heat does make you crave a cold one or two after work. We are going because it is convenient. If it were in Glendale, we’d pass.

  • William Bell

    May 31st, 2007 3:20 pm

    While I agree that maybe Four Peaks wasn’t optimal, the #1 goal of this meeting is to relax and tie one off after a hard days work, and not have any formalities of actually attaching yourself to an organization or group. I for one find a lot of the groups you mentioned to be populated with types of
    people that I have no interest in interacting with, I feel a meet of this type will attract a more diverse crowd of techie and security business types.

    Maybe it will suck, and we’ll never have another but I have feeling from the number of successful events in Boston, Chicago, and NY that will not be the case.

    B1ff I hope you do come, and draw your opinions from your attendance. If you feel like it is too similar to other events, or you don’t have a good time…avoid it like the plague in the future.

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