The Best of Security BSides Now and Then: Ten Years of Mixes

right now we've got we've got Jack Daniel coming up he is one of the founders of b-sides LV we will be approaching we will be having our ten-year anniversary next year we hope that everybody can come down and check that out this man needs no introduction if you've ever had been able to have a drink with him or just relax and have a good conversation he's a sage he's a listener a creative a thinker just an all-around top dresser ladies and gentlemen mr. Jack Daniel [Applause] Mike on a stand that they're trying to keep me in one place sorry cameraman I don't do that well hey I'm Jack I'm not gonna take a lot of

time I just want to say a few things about b-sides come on we can do it we'll skip that part here's the important thing you are here I'd like you to notice how many other b-sides have happened globally this is the attenti vent in end of July okay into July 2009 a handful of us kind of made this thing happened and about 175 200 of you came and we didn't think we were doing anything other than giving a voice to some folks and having a little fun this is a tenth one of these this is the four hundred and thirty-third b-sides globally in the past nine years [Applause] where are we 90 plus almost 100 cities 21 countries

I'm currently having conversations with people doing ones in Beijing Istanbul Dubai I forget where else all across the US and Europe it's amazing a couple of these are based on my memory which is not always good so here we go a little a little look back this is the first year there might be a couple of years the room we were in wasn't air-conditioned so we were duct taping garbage bags to the windows to make it work and we had a portable air conditioning units and then we had just the most amazing conference oh and we nearly burned the house down it turns out that if you plug in a portable AC unit you shouldn't have I'll

come back to me technology anyway come on you can do it you can do it you know those days when your love of technology is unrequited let's try this one more time and then I'm just gonna give up on slides who needs slides so anyway we nearly burned the house down I wasn't supposed to talk about that anymore but whatever but how did we get here I want to talk about the founder circle I don't wanna make fun of any conferences that do this but we've grown dramatically and like any growing organization or building you need a growing foundation so unlike some other events and conferences whether this is your first event or 80th event

welcome to the founders circle you're part of what makes b-sides what it is you know how does that work strangers become friends who became family and that's what built this amazing thing yeah my powerpoint heckles me so creepy uncles I think this so the audio for those of you who know that clip they told to friends and they told to friends anyway so what does it take to make this happen it doesn't take that what it takes is jack to give up on a stupid slide deck that's all so what it takes is an incredible team of staff that make this event happen most of the staff works at least ten months of year a lot of us work 12 months of the year

we have volunteers it takes hundreds of people to make this happen but it's not just us it's everybody who comes to speak or run a workshop or run the capture the flag or man the villages it takes everybody that participates and shares what they know because that's what this is about it takes the sponsors who support this make this happen engage with our community give you jobs and hire you we have the training of a hiring ground going it takes all of the volunteers who come in for a day or two or four or five and it takes you the participants you'll notice that doesn't say attendees there are no attendees here everyone participates and that's

what makes it special what it takes to make 'besides happen is you participants not attendees we have sponsors not vendors we are a 501c3 the IRS has rules about that but I think it means a lot to tell people that you're sponsoring this you're making this happen and as we've looked through what has made besides magical the four things we came up with the first three were content sharing interesting content having good conversations about that content and if you do those two things you starts to build and strengthen your communities and if you do those three things it turns out that has a profound impact on people's careers it's worth if you are new to this or haven't seen this a few

years ago I collected a bunch of recollections of what b-sides means to various people it means a lot to a lot of us a lot of people have given their first talk at a conference here a lot of people have gotten jobs here the people that I lose on my staff because they got their dream job here people have made friends here people have leaned on each other through rough times because by the way we're all humans so work isn't all we do when we talk about the family here there are some of us who are truly closer than we are with our biological families and so there's something that you can all do here this week do it today and tomorrow

at besides but there's other things happen in a town you can do it there what you need to do who's anybody here their first besides event yeah I love that now I'm gonna pick on somebody and hope she goes blush come here come here you make you're gonna make a new friend and you're gonna talk and see if you can help their career or they can help yours this is my friend Sarah we met through Twitter trying to help her with a thing hello make a friend even if you're just barely on into your career you can help somebody come up behind you and maybe you make a buddy who can move you a little bit further forward so hey I'm

glad we've we've been chatting online since last fall yeah and we're finally meeting in person here and she's part of the NOC team and making this event happen her first event she's in an orange shirt making this happen make buddies advance the world thank you so that's the most important thing you can do there's a lot to learn a lot to share I want to say happy birthday to I am the cavalry that was born here five years ago they're kind of making a difference in things and that was you know we gave them a launch pad they we don't get much credit but we get a little bit of credit for it I believe we

were called hacker midwives that's kind of an interesting phrase I'm not sure I'm gonna put that on my bio but that was a pretty good thing and with that I'm actually gonna do this very quick this is not the end this is the beginning I am going to leave you with a video of the first like five or six events that happened and let the a/v team I can't do the video it's not gonna work nevermind well you know I'm gonna try it we're gonna try technology one more time thank God the Internet's a passing fad because I'm really tired of this I also have that as a tattoo don't worry there's no story behind a heart with

tentacles flailing out of it get this very quick and then we'll let a V work

play oh nice the audio doesn't want to play

if only there were people that understood technology here to help me anyway I'm gonna leave it with this running some of these photos may be interesting to some of you it's my laptop it's got to be it's one of my audio cards should we try this one more time oh it's pushing out the VGA I hate the internet oh well oh well hey rather than waste any more time I just wanted to say welcome to b-sides whether it's your first event or sixty or thirty 70th there are all sorts of people in orange shirts who make this happen they're people in purple shirts who make it happen they're people in red shirts who make it happen if you are uncomfortable

about anything need guidance find one of the folks with one of those colored shirts they'll steer you to things with that let's let's get rolling and thank you all very much [Applause]