SC Congress Toronto 2013 – A Summary

I attended SC Congress Toronto 2013 this past week. It was a great conference and I want to share my experiences. So, here goes…

Conference Name: SC Congress Toronto 2013 (hosted by SC Magazine)
Dates: Tues June 11 and Wed June 12 2013
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Downtown Toronto

Overall summary:
I was impressed with SC Congress 2013. The speakers were good, the content was current and helpful and the facilities were perfect for the size of the conference. My only complaint is with the food – compared to other conferences I have attended (Sector.ca, for example), the lunch food portions were small and the variety of breakfast food available was limited. Overall, I would like to attend this conference again next year.

Here are my summaries of some of the more notable sessions that I attended.

Day 1:

• Day 1 – 9am – “Addressing today’s security challenges in the data centre”
• Day 1 – 9:50am – “The Honey Stick Project”
• Day 1 – 10:55am – “Information security adaptation: Survival in an evolving threat landscape”
• Day 1 – 11:45am – “Big Data”
• Day 1 – 12:55pm – “Keynote: Changing landscape of risk”
• Day 1 – 3:30pm – “Keynote: How hackers operate”

Day 2:

• Day 2 – 9am – “Extending mobility platforms”
• Day 2 – 9:50am – +Keynote: Supply chain + cyber intelligence + (insert bad country) = Risk”
• Day 2 – 11:30am – “Forensics”
• Day 2 – 12:30pm – “Keynote: Embracing BYOD”
• Day 2 – 1:20pm – “Detecting modern malware in your environment”
• Day 2 – 3:55pm – “Software security: Automation to scale your secure SDLC”

Let me know if you have any additional information or if you think I’ve misrepresented or neglected to mention anything.

Talk soon!

Todd