I received an interesting email this week while I was in Minnneapolis at a security conference. I do a fair bit of writing about the unified communications sector, but I don´t hide my interest and involvement with infosec issues in any way. I used to attend a lot of security conferences, but today my security work is pretty focused, I don´t generally attend security conferences from the perspective of press or industry analyst like I do unified communications events.

While I was on the road I was invited to attend the upcoming Hack in The Box Security Conference 2007 in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia from September 3rd till the 6th. And cover the event as press or media.

For those of us who are terribly US-centric, HITBSecConf is Asia's largest network security conference and is organized with the aim of creating a platform for the discussion and dissemination of deep-knowledge computer security issues. For me personally, joining ths event would be a first, and it would represent a new angle at managing security conferences.
 
Held in Kuala Lumpur since 2002 and more recently in Dubai, HITBSecConf routinely hots some of the most respected members from the mainstream and underground security arena.

While the event takes place in Kuala Lumpur and is focused on that part of the world, members of the US Army will again joining and participating in the hacking challenge - Capture The Flag, as well as organizing a BZFlag competition for the conference.

They´re expecting over 800 people attending this year and I hope to be one. It doesn´t look highly likely that I can pull this off, especially since I already have a week long Alaska cruise set up for the end of September. But for the moment, I´m keeping this on my radar and will explore whether or not there might be a way to make it fit,

While I don´t expect to make this event, I have to let the idea percolate a bit. How often do you get the chance to go to a security conference in Kuala Lumpur?


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