Hack In The Box Security Conference 2008
Once again, Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference is coming back. Basically, this conference is all about security. According to their website, HITB Sec Conf, the main aim of their conference is to enable the dissemination, discussion and sharing of deep knowledge network security information. Presented by respected members of both the mainstream network security arena as well as the underground or black hat community, their events routinely highlight new and ground-breaking attack and defense methods that have not been seen or discussed in public before.
This year, it will be their 6th conference in Malaysia and is expected to attract over 1000 attendees from around the Asia Pacific region and from around the world. This year event will also see the introduction of a third track to their conference program called the “HITB Labs“. These new hands-on sessions are designed to give attendees a closer and deeper understanding of various security issues from physical security bypass methods to the security of RFID and other wireless based technologies.
Furthermore, this conference will also see their highly popular team-based hacking competition known as Capture The Flag (CTF). First developed and presented at Defcon in the US, the idea behind a CTF competition is to allow for teams of three to hack into prepared servers running in order to retrieve marked files or flags on these target machines. Participants will also be required to defend their systems from attack. Teams will be judged on both their defensive as well as the offensive game play. I have been participating in this CTF game for the pass 3 years but this year, I will be just purely the conference attendee. Reason? Simple, time for me to move on and learn something new. 
Job Scope
Job Scope, today, or probably to be exact, this week, i am starting to change my job scope to pre-sales consultant. Ya, I will be more focus on pre-sales, basically involve in the sales activity.
For me, it is a relieve because I no longer need to in charge of all the support issue, inventory, workshop, etc. Even though I will focus on sales activity but I still need to have my technical knowledge improve in order to give advise or recommendation to my customer.
So, it is kind of a upgrade for myself and I will continue to improve and share my experience here.
Hello Security World!
Welcome to Security Patching blog. The purpose of the blog is basically to share my IT security knowledge and experience with anyone who wanted to learn about the industry. It also serves as my technical knowledge portal so that I can always refer back to those things I forgot :P.
So, stay tuned for my next post.