Hot answers tagged conference
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In my opinion, being sent to the conference would...
Keep your skills up to date in a fast moving industry
Bring fresh ideas and perspective back to your company
Allow you to network, e.g. scout new hires
Increase the presence/awareness of your brand
Provide a bonding experience with co-workers
To help ensure success...
Find out what the application ...
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Defcon always worked out as the most cost effective broad technical training for my penetration testers and technical security teams - even though I had to approve budget for them to fly from the UK to Vegas and stay there for the week.
Defcon gives
cutting edge training
direct experience of 'black hat' activities
value for money
Blackhat is a much more ...
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Are you sure you want to read research papers on this? If so, here are a few good ones:
State of the Art: Automated Black-Box Web Application Vulnerability Testing, J. Bau, E. Bursztein, D. Gupta, J.C. Mitchell. IEEE Security & Privacy 2010.
Why Johnny Can't Pentest: An Analysis of Black-box Web Vulnerability Scanners, A. Doupe, M. Cova, G. Vigna, ...
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