Wednesday Keynote 10AM
Christien Rioux - ’The Security Industry: How to Survive Becoming Management’
Christien Rioux will be discussing ‘The Security Industry: How to Survive Becoming Management’. Discussion about what the path to management looks like, what to expect from a start-up experience in the security industry, and how to carry the hacker ethos forward into the culture of a company. Learn the do’s and don’ts of running a hacker company, and how to lose your hair as quickly as possible.
BIO: Christien Rioux, co-founder and chief scientist of Veracode, is responsible for the technical vision and design of Veracode’s advanced security technology. Before founding Veracode, Mr. Rioux was one of the founders of @stake, a security consultancy, as well as a member of L0pht Heavy Industries, a renowned security think tank. He co-authored the best-selling Windows password auditing tool L0phtCrack and the AntiSniff network intrusion detection system. His other activities with L0pht included significant security research, publication work and public speaking engagements. Mr. Rioux is also responsible for numerous security advisories in many applications, operating systems and environments. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.
Thursday Keynote 10AM
Violet Blue – Silence Equals Death
Sex, drugs and… censorship? This talk includes the Sex + Drugs talk that was censored under duress at BSides San Francisco, and begins by exploring why no topics should ever be off limits in hacker communities – and especially, why no topic should ever be off limits because there are women in the room. Solutions are offered to the community for current dilemmas posed by sex-negative and anti-harm reduction acts by feminist extremists in hacker communities. This Common Grounds Keynote also serves as an introduction to community-focused concepts – including the very necessary refusal to be silenced.
BIO: Violet Blue is a ZDNet, c|net, and CBS News journalist, a sex educator, tech speaker, crisis counselor and volunteer NGO trainer – Blue is known for being outspoken and controversial. She lost a domain to Libya, was famously yelled at by Steve Jobs, her name was the locus of Google nymwars, she was the 1st female podcaster and won a Federal lawsuit to stop an impersonator (in name, likeness and sex ed); she was the San Francisco Chronicle’s sex columnist. Violet is regularly censored, and she is equally at home in a machine shop, parked on the floor of a conference with her laptop, or on one of her motorcycles. Her sharp editorial eye and skill as an author wins awards for her 40+ sex ed and erotica books, which have been translated into several languages. Blue is not just a pundit on sex and tech but also strives to be an agent of change, and to raise the bar for discussion on critical issues that affect at-risk populations.
