BSides St. Pete takes place next Friday at Saturday at St. Petersbug College’s Midtown Center!
What is BSides?
BSides (a.k.a. “Security BSides”) is a series of cybersecurity conferences that take place all over the world. Here in Tampa Bay, we are especially lucky that we get not one, but two BSides conferences every year, with BSides Tampa happening in the spring and BSides St. Pete taking place in the fall.
BSides gets it name from “b-side,” the alternate side of a vinyl or cassette single, where the a-side has the primary content and the b-side is the bonus or additional content. In 2009, when the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas received way more presentation submissions than they could take on, the rejected presenters (who still had very could presentations; there just wasn’t enough capacity for them) banded together and made their own “b-side” conference that ran in parallel with Black Hat. From that event came BSides.
When is BSides St. Pete happening?
On Friday, October 3, starting at 9:00 a.m., the BSides St. Pete trainings will take place, featuring these topics:
- Exposing Coordinated Attacks
- TCP/IP Black Ops Training
- Introduction to IoT Security: Hands-On CTF Style
- RE:Boot – An Introduction to Reverse Engineering Training
- What’s my job again?
- When Should a Business Use SIEM & SOAR
On Saturday, October 4, starting at 9:00 a.m., the BSides St. Pete conference will take place, featuring all the topics featured on the agenda.
Why attend BSides?
What is BSides St. Pete like? You can read my report from BSides 2023 to get a feel for it, or…
BSides conference are great — not only for the information security knowledge you’ll pick up at any given session, but also for the community. Tampa Bay is a cybersecurity hub, and BSides conferences are organized by the community, for the community. You’ll get to meet area folks in the tech and cybersecurity fields, and you might even make friends!
(And yes, I’m talking actual friends here. In fact, after I write this, I’m going to a potluck dinner with friends I met through BSides.)
How do I get tickets / find out more?
You can head to the BSides St. Pete site to find out more and get tickets on the tickets page.
You can also consult:
- The BSides St. Pete Discord
- BSide St. Pete’s LinkedIn page
- This map of St. Pete College Midtown Center