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(ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

AndreaMoore — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:33:47 GMT

The 10th annual (ISC)² Security Congress will take place as a virtual conference in recognition of the health concerns and many corporate travel restrictions this year associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The renowned three-day conference, focused on industry discussion and continuing education for security professionals of all levels, will be held online from November 16-18.

Read more for information on early bird pricing.

We hope to "see" you there!

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

DHerrmann — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 21:00:12 GMT

Thank you!

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

rslade — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:32:40 GMT

> AndreaMoore (Community Manager) posted a new topic in (ISC)2 Security Congress

> The 10th annualÂ (ISC)Â² Security CongressÂ will take place as a virtual
> conference in recognition of the health concerns and many corporate travel
> restrictions this year associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The renowned
> three-day conference, focused on industry discussion and continuing education
> for security professionals of all levels, will be held online from November
> 16-18. Read moreÂ for information on early bird pricing.

OK, I have read everything I can find on the Website, and still no CFP ...

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Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

dcontesti — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 07:09:40 GMT

@rslade

Rob, the call for papers went out in February. Tim Garon has also posted and said they have over 400 submissions...that they will be going through.

https://community.isc2.org/t5/ISC-2-Security-Congress/Call-for-Speakers-for-2020-ISC-2-Security-Congress-Now-Open/m-p/36879#M352

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

AppDefects — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 12:45:34 GMT

45 CPE's for $295. That's a great deal for a lot of learning!

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

AndreaMoore — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 13:48:03 GMT

@rslade,

@dcontesti is correct. The call for speakers deadline was extended to April 5th. We received more than 400 submissions. Conference sessions have been scored and reviewed by our committee of volunteers, and the Congress team is finalizing the program over the coming weeks.

@AppDefects - We agree, 45 CPEs at $295 is a great deal! We look forward to a great program and hope everyone can join us!

Registration will open soon and we will post an update to announce that. Early bird registration will be available until September 30th at $295 for members and associates. Non-members will also benefit with Early Bird pricing of $395.

The flexibility of a virtual conference will enable more cybersecurity professionals than ever before to access world-class expertise shared through upwards of 40 sessions by presenters from around the globe.

Professional development sessions will provide actionable insights into a wide array of both technical and soft skills topics including Cloud Security, DevSecOps, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Career Development, Privacy, workforce challenges and more.

(ISC)² members will also have the opportunity to earn as many as 45 continuing professional education (CPE) credits – more than any other previous Security Congress – by attending live and on-demand sessions. Presentations will be recorded and available on-demand after the conference.

Click here for the full announcement.

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

rslade — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 05:59:59 GMT

> dcontesti (Community Champion) mentioned you in a post! Join the conversation

> Rob, the call for papers went out in February.Â Tim Garon has also
> posted and said they have over 400 submissions...that they will be going
> through.

And with all the massive changes, they don't expect any of the submissions to
change?

Yeah, sounds about right for ISC2 planning ...

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Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

AppDefects — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 02:40:27 GMT

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dcontesti — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 06:38:56 GMT

@rslade

I imagine that Tim and the volunteers will go through the 400 submissions to determine if any of them will work and I can only surmise that if they do not have sufficient or the right submissions, they will do a second call for papers.

I believe we need to provide them time to do the above and not jump to conclusions. The conference is still about five months away so plenty of time to adjust.

We know that the new format may not allow for some of the sessions submitted to fit into the schedule (they were doing three days with 5 or so sessions in every time slot (so let's say, 3 days by 8 timeslots by 5 session or 120 in total sessions). Best guess is that they will not be able to handle that many sessions when doing a virtual conference (I could be wrong.....I actually was wrong once in 1974).

So you may still see CFP for this year's Congress.

Regards

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

Kaity — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 15:10:49 GMT

@dcontesti

Thank you for your comments! You’re very much spot-on in your assessment. Tim and his team are working very hard to review and evaluate all the submissions. We are already close to a short list. While call for speakers closed several months ago (at the time, we were moving forward to build a program for either a live event or a virtual event), we did receive many interesting submissions from experienced Congress speakers (forward-looking at the time, of course) about assessing the impact of COVID-19, lessons learned and the impact on the workforce. There are also many proposals that included exploring work-from-home and how it impacts everything from securing an expanded attack surface to new considerations for compliance, auditing and privacy. We will be working closely with those speakers to flesh out and update their proposals. The pandemic is certainly a topic we will cover during the conference, but we are also doing our best to balance a more condensed agenda with a mix of well-reviewed technical and professional development topics.

There is a lot of work ahead, but we’re excited to adjust our program to this new virtual format.

Many more updates to come about Congress 2020!

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

leroux — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 15:40:50 GMT

This will allow more non_US members to attend...

Thanks for letting us to know about.

It will be important to transfer this information to Chapters Leaders...

Best regards,

Yves

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

AppDefects — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:23:58 GMT

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

Radioteacher — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 03:36:30 GMT

Last Saturday (7-11-2020), I was privileged to attend and present at BSidesSATX. The event was great.

It was well managed and pleasantly coordinated event. The over 1100 attendees knew that the local free event was run by an all-volunteer staff, but the professionalism of the staff was top shelf.

Speakers waited and tested in a Green Room prior to being dropped into their track.
The event had four tracks of speakers
Multiple Capture the Flag challenges were happening.
There was a Discord server setup with channels for feedback during the presentations
There was a Wireless village running in Discord most of the day.
Different Discord channels were set up, like Amateur Radio with office hours

I need to turn in the CPE's for the event and for presenting.

BSides San Antonio help set a great example on how to run a virtual security event.

-Paul

P.S. They also had nice shirts. Last year they used a stylized Sugar Skull for a logo...this year it wore a mask.

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

MikeGlassman — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:17:10 GMT

@AndreaMoore

Hi Andrea, two minor issues.

1. Where is the agenda ? It's great asking us to buy the Early bird, but it would be even better to be able to see what we are getting, be it early bird or not.

2. How would this work for people in different time zones ? If the schedules are US time, those of us on the other side of the world will not be able to take place in the actual events but will have to watch recordings, in which case we lose out of the opportunity to take an active part if we wanted to.

So, although I really like the idea and hope that at some point things will be normal enough to return to the actual conferences, some of the issues don't seem to have been worked out for a global community.

Mike

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

AndreaMoore — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 20:52:55 GMT

Hello @MikeGlassman,

Thank you for your comments/questions.

We are hoping to post an agenda within a few weeks. We understand the time differences for our global audience. On that note, we are exploring staggered start times for some sessions, if possible. As this all finalizes, we will update the event registration site and the Community with additional information. This is a new way to deliver Security Congress; however, our team is working hard to quickly finalize our solutions to the questions you raise.

Thank you in advance for everyone's patience. We hope to update you soon!

Andrea

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

MikeGlassman — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 04:28:53 GMT

@AndreaMoore good morning (My morning),

Thank you for your response.

I hope that ISC2 will ensure that the lower cost of the conference will remain until after the agenda is out. I still find it pretty strange that registration has begun even though no one actually knows what is going to be going on, or how.

sincerely,

Mike Glassman

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va — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 14:43:23 GMT

My first time ... will be attending.

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trueshrew — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:58:05 GMT

Any thoughts about hosting it in Chicago or Indianapolis next year? Just can't justify spending 6 days and thousands in travel expenses to go to Orlando.

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

AndreaMoore — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:53:08 GMT

@trueshrew

Thanks for the suggestion! We will announce 2021 information later on but for now we are focused on providing a great event (virtually) for 2020. Since you won't need to travel for the 2020 event, we hope you can join us virtually this year!

Re: (ISC)2 Security Congress Will Be Virtual This Year

AndreaMoore — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:54:48 GMT

Just making sure everyone on this thread saw that the agenda is posted at congress.isc2.org.

https://community.isc2.org/t5/ISC-Security-Congress/Agenda-for-2020-ISC-2-Security-Congress-Now-Live/m-p/39052#M383