If you have been living under a rock somewhere and somehow haven’t heard about this revolution known as SecurityBsides, well, perk up folks! With SecurityBSides San Francisco being the second large-scale un-conferences that compliments a large corporate conference, the proposed talks are already shaping up to be something so very special to our industry! This is an un-conference that is completely powered by the people, so if you haven’t yet voted for the talks that you would like to hear, do it or don’t complain!

Here is my short-list of talks that I think are going to be wonderful

*Some are not yet picked to present, so if you agree, vote often!

The Great Compliance Debate: No Child Left Behind or The Polio Vaccine

Panel Discussion: Joshua Corman , Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) , Anton Chuvakin (@anton_chuvakin) , Andy Ellis (@CSOAndy), a surprise guest

How to Design and Develop Your Own Security Event

Stacy Thayer, Ph.D. @stacythayer

My Life on the Infosec D-List

Andrew Hay

Hacking the Sales Cycle

Gal Shpantzer

Being Inbred Isn’t Just a Problem for Hillbillies.  Groupthink and the InfoSec Industry

Vikram Phatak

Risk Management – Time to blow it up and start over?

Alex Hutton

What kind of self-serving person would I be if I didn’t put a shameless plug in for the Gender Panel: Unicorns, Clubhouses, and Ruffled Feathers: Women in Security:

Rounding out the panelist this year will be:

Jennifer Jabbusch – CISO of Carolina Advanced Digital, Inc.

Andrew Hay – 2008 “Security Thought Leader” award winner by SANS Institute / Security Blogger / InfoSec Professional

Lisa Lorenzin – Crazy smart solutions architect for an organization that I’m not sure if she’s listing (you have google, figure it out yourself)

Gurdeep Kaur – Author of controversial SANS Reading Room Paper “Women in IT Security Project Management”

Michelle Klinger – Full time QSA, defender of all things saucy and womanly.

First of all, Security Sociability has officially been moved to it’s home domain! YAY!  Thanks to WordPress making it so effortless, this only took me 2 days of many work-related interruptions to accomplish!

Now here is where the party really beings! RSA Conference 2009 starts in a few days, and I depart for California tomorrow. Somehow a little nobody like myself ended up with a pretty impressive social itinerary so far!  I plan to blog at least a few times next week on schedule of events, talks, recaps, and of-course bar fights!

Just as a reminder…. I still haven’t gotten my invites to some of the parties yet (no naming names… you KNOW who you are), I’m assuming it’s just some DNS redirection that didn’t get it to my MX record yet…. I have faith it will resolve!