BSidesTO 2016 is coming on Sunday, October 16th at the Ryerson University Library Lecture Room, 350 Victoria St, Toronto.

Sponsorship opportunities are available! Check out our sponsorship package and contact us at [email protected].

Tickets are on sale now: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsides-toronto-2016-tickets-27669665715 

More info available at http://www.bsidesto.ca/; follow us on twitter @BSidesTO

The CFP closed on September 5th. For reference, CFP submissions were accepted by email [email protected] with the following information:

- Title of the talk

- Name / handle / twitter / website

- Length (25 minutes or 50 minutes)

- Abstract

- Why it’s interesting

- Have you presented it before (and if so tell us where)?

- If you already have them, slides and / or technical papers

This year's talks and speakers are:

• How You Actually Get Hacked - Ben Hughes
• Rootkits vs Ransomware. Using evil to fight for good. - Boris Rudakov
• Guests N’ Goblins: Exposing Wi-Fi Exfiltration Risks and Mitigation techniques - Pete Desfigies
• Penetration Testing, I don’t think it means, what you think it means. - Haydn Johnson
• An Application and a Standards-Driven Revisitation of Setuid - Mahesh Tripunitaria
• Hacking Is Easy, Hiring Is Hard: Managing Security People - Michael Murray and Ross Barrett
• Blue Team Defending against APT’s - Angelo Rago
• Ransom Wars - Adam Greenhill, Christina Kang, Desiree McCarthy, and Peter Chmura
• Incident Readiness Struggles - Judy Nowak
• Lighting up the Canadian Darknet Financially - Milind Bhargava, Peter Desfigies, and Philip Shin

BSidesTO 2016 is being organized by:

• Laura Payne
• Dave Lewis
• Lee Brotherson
• Fred Dorre
• Ben Sapiro