CARY, NC (March 8, 2011)—Carolina Advanced Digital, Inc. (CAD), an industry leader of IT infrastructure, management and security solutions, will sponsor the first BSides event in North Carolina, BSidesGSO, taking place March 9 in Greensboro, NC. BSides is a community-driven framework for building events for and by information security community members.
“We are thrilled to be a part of the first BSides event in the area,” says Jennifer Jabbusch, CISO and infrastructure security specialist at CAD, who helped plan and spoke at the founding BSides event, in Las Vegas in 2009. “BSides creates such an open environment for discussion and interaction with the local security community. These conversations are essential to the growth of our trade, and they aren’t happening anywhere else.”
BSides was established in response to the number of quality speakers rejected to the Call for Papers for the Black Hat USA 2009 conference. Conferences are constrained to a timeframe of eight hours a day for a few days, greatly limiting the number of speakers. BSides’ goal is to provide more options for speakers, topics and events.
In just over a year, BSides has expanded globally; recent events have taken place from San Francisco to New Delhi. They refer to themselves as a “do-acracy,” meaning if you want it, then you make it happen. Organizers and attendees are called participants rather than members, creating an open and welcoming atmosphere.
“CAD is proud to contribute to BSidesGSO,” says John Jabbusch, president and chief engineer of CAD. “This event is vital to form a strong information security community in North Carolina. We look forward to being involved in many more BSidesGSO events.”
For their inaugural event, BSidesGSO will feature talks by local security experts Ryan Linn, Dennis Kuntz, Dave Matusiak, Bob Usher, Jeff Mercer and Lock FALE.
BSidesGSO will be held March 9 in Greensboro, NC at Natty Greene’s Pub and Brewing Co. The event is free to attend and runs from 10am-5pm. To register for the event, go to http://bsidesgso.eventbrite.com/.
Recent videos from BSidesSanFrancisco (February 2011) can be found at http://www.livestream.com/securitybsidestrack1/ and http://www.livestream.com/securitybsidestrack2.
For more information, see http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/32853890/BSidesGSO or contact info@securitybsides.org.
About Carolina Advanced Digital
Carolina Advanced Digital, Inc. (CAD) is a woman-owned, veteran-owned and privately-held small business specializing in IT infrastructure, security and management solutions. For more than 25 years, CAD has been the leading engineering service and product provider for federal, state and local government agencies as well as healthcare, education and corporate markets. Most of CAD’s professional services and products are available via open market, federal GSA and various state contracts. For more information, call 800-435-2212 or visit www.cadinc.com.
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