RUXCON: Australian Security Conference

So it's that time of the year again,  Australia's best and brightest get together to talk infosec and drink beer. I was hoping to make it to the conference this year but instead will be attending SANS Sydney SEC504 Hacker Techniques, Exploits & Incident Handling. If you will be at SANS Sydney drop me a line.

If you live in Australia, and are interested in or are working in Information Security, Ruxcon is the one event not to miss!

When: Saturday, November 20 and Sunday, November 21, 2010
Where: CQ Melbourne Function Centre (113 Queen Street, Melbourne)
Time: Doors open 9:00am on Saturday and Sunday. First presentation at 10:00am.
Cost: $80 or $75 via online registration

Here is a bunch of info about the conference from the Ruxcon site;

From Site:
Ruxcon is the premier technical security conference in Australia. The conference brings together the best and the brightest security talent within the Aus-Pacific region, through a mixture of live presentations, activities and demonstrations.

Ruxcon is widely regarded as a leading computer security conference within Australia attracting all facets of the security landscape from industry professionals and  academics to enthusiasts. Ruxcon is unique in that it believes that a security conference should be accessible and affordable to all levels of the security industry.

Ruxcon 2010 is held over two full days (November 20 and 21) in the heart of the city of Melbourne.

There is some really great training on offer in the week leading up to Ruxcon, if I wasn't attending SANS I would have definitely considered;

1. A Vigorous Introduction to Malware Analysis
2. Malware Analysis for Effective Incident Response

Training (from site):
Ruxcon Training provides a unique opportunity for students to receive specialist security training not usually available in Australia. Our trainers are considered to be leading experts in their given security fields and have prior experience training students. Ruxcon 2010 is the first time training of this calibre has been offered in Australia.

Ruxcon training will take place just before the main Ruxcon conference, starting on Monday the 15th of November and ending on Friday the 19th of November.

Depending on the course, training will run over one or two day periods. Sessions commence at 9:00am and conclude at 5:00pm. For most courses, each student will receive a printed and bound training guide. Complementary catering will be provided.

Training availability is dependent on the number of bookings we receive for a given course.

Presentations:
There were three talks that I really wanted to see, hopefully the presentations are recorded:

• Mark Chaffe
  The Australian Internet Security Initiative - Fighting Botnets at the Source
• Alex Tilley
  This Job makes you Paranoid
• Matthew de Carteret
  Ghost in the Shell(code)

Presentation Schedule: Can be viewed here

- Cooper