Here we go again: TROOPERS12 is scheduled for March 19^th – 23^rd 2012 in Heidelberg, Germany.

Those who attended TROOPERS before know what we are up to. For all newcomers I’ll quickly outline what’s going to happen:

TROOPERS is your premium IT security event in Europe. Think of your usual IT educational event without annoying sales pitching and outdated topics. Now add a superb conference location, an elite line-up of international researchers and practitioners as well as an organizing team not dedicated to make a living doing this, but to celebrate our craftsmanship together with like-minded people.

Sounds good? Let’s see what we have planned for you:

Monday & Tuesday

We start with a great selection of workshops. You’ll have a bigger choice than ever before:

One-day workshops on Monday:

• Advanced IPv6 Security
• Android Security
• CloudSec
• ISECOM Workshop (to be announced shortly) 

One-day workshops on Tuesday:

• Hacking 101 - Your personal preparation for PacketWars (and beyond…)

Wednesday & Thursday

These are the main conference days. Expect more than 20 international researchers coming in to present on their latest discoveries – ready to share their experience with you. In order to serve you with the latest and greatest we won’t announce a final agenda yet. Topics of already confirmed talks include:

• Web Application Firewalls
• iCloud
• SAP Hacking
• Quantum Cryptography
• Bioinformatics

Friday

We’ll finish up with a bunch of roundtable sessions. This is the perfect place to recap the week’s happenings and look ahead on upcoming developments.

Something is missing right?

A TROOPERS conference is more than a yearly get-together of some IT guys. This event is for enthusiasts, idealists and doers of all nationalities, age groups and sexes. Our common denominator is the passion for what we do and the strong belief that we will succeed in the daily battle of IT security. Professionals from various backgrounds are longing for an environment where their thoughts, work and experience is appreciated and amplified.

Therefore we spare no efforts to do just that. To name just a few highlights of your complimentary supporting program:

• Shared dinner in the Old Town
• PacketWars hacking contest
• 10k Morning run to keep you going
• [TOP SECRET] Competition

How do I sign up?

Head over to our sign up page and make yourself familiar with all the deals we offer. Please contact us, if you need any assistance or guidance on your selection.

We’re looking forward to meet you soon,
Florian & the TROOPERS/ERNW crew

- Keynote speakers selected: Richard Thieme and Enno Rey

- Legendary Rodrigo Branco joins us for his talk on “Dynamic Program Analysis and Software Exploitation“

- Mentored PacketWars teams – ERNW experts teach you how to hack!

- Risk panel discussion are moderated by Sergey Bratus

- We joined hackerrun.com with the TROOPERS 10k morning run

- And much more: T-Shirts went to press this week, delicious food was selected for the shared dinner, etc…

TROOPERS11 will be the biggest edition of the series yet. We’re looking forward to welcome you to Heidelberg!

Stay tuned for a upcoming blog post regarding the special badge we have built for the conference…

Best regards,
Florian & the TROOPERS/ERNW crew

TROOPERS is extending its early bird rebates until mid-February (18. February 2011). Booking is very strong this year and we’re confident to have the biggest and best TROOPERS yet. Be a part of it and sign-up today.

Best wishes from the whole team.
Florian

PS: Please note that there is a limited number of seats available in the workshops. First-come, first-served

Creating a new category named ‘Offtopic’ feels nasty. Especially if there are only two normal posts existent at this point. Anyhow: I have something to share with you!

Google is recently airing a quite nice advertisement on television. I think marketing experts gloat over the strong interaction by the audience which everybody is forced into when seeing this 30 second clip. So try it yourself (English version first):

And for our German readers:
For all the Christmas lovers – there’s a special XMas version, too.

Ok, you got the idea. Now here is what we came up with. Enjoy!

Have a great day!
Your TROOPERS team

a) ships a faster version of Chrome on the German-speaking market.

OR

b) they think that English speaking customers are more clever than German-speaking ones!

Why do I come up with such strange thoughts? The punch line in the English version says “Browse the web as fast as you think”. And in the German clip “Im Internet surfen. Schneller als man denkt.” – which is something like: “Surf the net. Faster than you think.” Am I missing something?

PS2: If somebody from Google reads this, please feel free to send one of your ITSec guys free of charge to TROOPERS11 (instead of suing us for messing with your latest ads – let us know, if that’s not cool).

But it is also a good point to look back and thank everybody who attended, supported and created past TROOPERS events. In the end it is an collaborative achievement and we are happy to have everybody on board. Again we are proud to welcome some regular guests from industry and academia as well as long-served Veteran TROOPERS speakers like Rodrigo, Sergey and Bryan. Accompanied by last year’s stars (like Graeme from New Zealand, Chema from Spain and the US boys Steve & Marsh) and plenty of new faces everything is set for an excellent edition of the conference. And this is what it is all about: A rapidly growing community of competence.

I mentioned Bryan Fite before – he is more than a business partner and colleague to  ERNW. Besides being a good friend to some of us he is the brains behind PacketWars™ (it is taking place for the fourth time on German soil at TROOPERS11) and creator of the DAY-CON conference in Dayton, Ohio. DAY-CON is what we call the sister conference to TROOPERS and vice versa. Both conferences embody the same self-imposed goals of high-end education without any compromise on anything. There is more to say about this topic – we will cover it in an upcoming post. Maybe also Bryan wants to write something about PacketWars in this space. So stay tuned.

Best wishes,
Florian

PS: Visit http://www.vimeo.com/user3068266/videos for plenty of recordings from DAY-CON IV. For example Enno’s and Graeme’s talk on supply chain insecurity: http://www.vimeo.com/17201379 Enjoy!

mark your calendars now: There’s a new date for TROOPERS11! It’s from March 28th – April 1st 2011 in Heidelberg, Germany.

We call out again to all (C)ISOs, IT auditors, sysadmins, security consultants and everyone who is involved with IT-Security to regroup at Heidelberg and get ready for the next season of high-end education.

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Best wishes,
Your TROOPERS team

PS: We have uploaded the slides of TROOPERS10 – please have a look here. Additionally more and more videos of the talks are coming available on www.viddler.com/TROOPERS/.