CanSecWest Applied Security Conference: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Interact with the security community

CanSecWest, the world's most advanced conference focusing on applied digital security, is about bringing the industry luminaries together in a relaxed environment which promotes collaboration and social networking. The conference lasts for three days and features a single track of thought provoking presentations, each prepared by an experienced professional and talented educator who is at the cutting edge of his or her field. We give preference to new and innovative material, highlighting important, emergent technologies, techniques, or best industry practices.

The conference is single track, with one hour presentations over the duration beginning at 9:00 a.m. The registration fee includes the catered meals, and there will be a vendor display and lounge/eating area, where wireless internet access will be available (as well as in the speaking theater).

2019-03-16-13:00:00 CanSecWest Reservations

Hotel Room Registration Closed

Hotel registration through the provided link is now closed.

We have sold out of all discounted rooms for the conference and the link provided previously to book rooms is now closed. The hotel is continuing to offer regular rooms at the discounted rate of $183.00++ based on remaining availability.

If you still need to book a room, please contact reservations@wallcentre.com.

2019-03-09-08:00:00 CanSecWest Seaside Security Meet-Up

New for 2019 CanSecWest Seside Security Meet-Up on Saturday March 23

A new addition to CanSecWest Vancouver Infosec Week 2019:

Seaside Security Meet-Up

March 23, 2019 - 12:30-1700

A series of theater style presentations on information security best practices, and an open microphone lighting talk session of quick presentations from the audience.

A chance to learn from and meet your local infosec peers in our adjacent licensed and catered Flynn's Classic Videogame Arcade Lounge stocked with free to play classic videogame cabinets.

Venue: 3rd Floor Ballroom, North Tower, Sheraton Wall Center, 1088 Burrard Street, Vancouver B.C.

Come present your research or security tutorial to local Greater Vancouver Area Infosec professionals and international attendees from the main CanSecWest conference, interact with the local security community, learn from presentations or just meet your peers and have beer or non-alcoholic beverage with some interesting topical converstions in our free-to-play classic historical arcade.

The first confirmed tutorial will be Guy Rosario from KPMG teaching attendees how to set up their own AI machine filtering to analyze PCAP packet captures. More presentations TBA.

Send talk proposals to secwest19@cansecwest.com and cc: dr@cansecwest.com or contact @dragosr on Twitter.

Cost: $120

Main Conference Notes

This year the party has moved to Wednesday night and will feature live music. The Thursday night IOAsis party will continue as usual.

2019-02-07-20:00:00 2019 Speakers

Presentations:

Memsad: Why Clearing Secrets is Hard - Ilja Van Sprundel, Ioactive
Dangers of Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption, a look at Microsoft SEAL - Zhiniang Peng and Minrui Yang, Qihoo 360
Device Driver Debauchery and MSR Madness - Ryan Warns, FireEye FLARE Offensive Task Force, and Tim Harrison, Independent Security Researcher
Dive into Windows Hello: Is it really more secure than a Password? - Hyoung-Kee Choi, HIT Lab, Sungkyunkwan University
The Dwelling Place of Zero Days (Windows 10 RS4) - Boris Larin and Anton Ivanov, Kaspersky
From SSRF to RCE (and Windows Credentials) - Yongtao Wang, Qihoo 360
Hacking Microcontroller Firmware Through USB - Boris Larin and Anton Ivanov, Kaspersky
ZigWasp: Discovery of Secret ZigBee Firmware to Accelerate Analysis - Jie Fu, 360UnicornTeam
InfoSec Frameworks for Misinformation - Sara-Jayne Terp, Bodacea Light Industries
Weaponized WPA2 Wifi Jiaheng Wang and Jun Xie
vs com.apple.security.sandbox - Patroklos Argyroudis, CENSUS S.A.
PAC-Man and Ghosts: A practice and breakthrough of Pointer Authentication on iOS - Xiaolong Bai, Min (Spark) Zheng, and Hunter Qu from Alibaba Inc.
Adversarial Examples: Using AI to Cheat AIMengyun Tang, Tencent Labs
Attacking .NET through CLR Hong Yu
Interesting Vuln Trends, Lessons Learned Brian Claire Young, Google

2019-01-20-12:00:00 2019 Dojos Announced and Registration Open

2019 Dojos Announced and Registration Open

CanSecWest is excited to announce 19 Dojos across March 16-19, 2019. Visit the Dojo tab for more details on the Dojo training options for this year's conference.