Welcome to DerbyCon 2011 – Introduction

Presented at DerbyCon 1.0 (2011), Sept. 30, 2011, 9 a.m. (50 minutes)

Welcome to DerbyCon. You made it. You may not make it out. This is our first year and we’re hoping you’re loving it. As any new conference things will be different and events that you may have not known about. If you want to learn how DerbyCon got started, receive free hugs, and learn about the conference, you should be here.


Presenters:

  • David Kennedy / ReL1K as Dave Kennedy (ReL1K)
    David Kennedy (ReL1K) is a security ninja and penetration tester that likes to write code, break things, and develop exploits. Dave is a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for a Fortune 1000. Dave is on the Back|Track and Exploit-Database development team and a core member of the Social-Engineer podcast and framework. David continues to contribute to a variety of open-source projects. David had the privilege in speaking at some of the nations largest conferences on a number of occasions including BlackHat, Defcon and Shmoocon. David is the creator of the Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET), Fast-Track, modules/attacks for Metasploit, and has released a number of public exploits. David heavily co-authored the Metasploit Unleashed course available online and has a number of security related white-papers in the field of exploitation. David has a book soon to be released in June from NoStarch Press, “Metasploit: A Penetration Testers Guide”. David is one of the founders of DerbyCon, a hacker con located in Louisville, Kentucky. Lastly, David worked for three letter agencies during his U.S Marine Corp career in the intelligence field specializing in red teaming and computer forensics.
  • Nick Hitchcock (nick8ch)
    Nick8ch is a security engineer for a security consulting company and is the head of security for DerbyCon.
  • Adrian Crenshaw / Irongeek as Adrian Crenshaw (irongeek)
    Adrian Crenshaw has worked in the IT industry for the last twelve years. He runs the information security website Irongeek.com, which specializes in videos and articles that illustrate how to use various pen-testing and security tools. He did the cert chase for awhile (MCSE NT 4, CNE, A+, Network+. i-Net+) but stopped once he had to start paying for the tests himself. He’s currently working on a Masters in Security Informatics, and is interested in obtaining a network security/research/teaching job in academia. Adrian is one of the founders of DerbyCon, a hacker con located in Louisville, Kentucky.
  • Martin Bos (purehate)
    Martin “Pure Hate” Bos Martin (purehate) Bos works as a penetration tester for Accuvant Inc.. He resides in Louisville, KY with his wife, Kim and their daughter. Martin is also one of the core developers for Backtrack-Linux and has been with the project since its early days. Martin also is a Co-Founder of Question-Defense.com, a website dedicated to answering technical questions daily and also has the largest online WPA Cracking service on the web. In addition to these things, Martin is one of the founders of DerbyCon, a hacker con located in Louisville, Kentucky.

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