You know you are in Texas when you get out of the plane and hear country music through the airport and I was there indeed because the 25 and 26th of October the OWASP AppSec USA conference was taking place in Austin, Texas, where I participated with a presentation on Web Honeypots.
The conference had more than 800 attendees, free and paid courses on different application security topics during the days 23 and 24, and of course an impressive selection of speakers.
My experience as a speaker was unbeatable since the organization, the same people who organized LASCON, put much effort and desire to ensure that everything went well. They even organized a barbecue Texas style for the speakers in a popular restaurant overlooking a lake.
And what to say about the Happy Hour for the entire conference where there was a mechanical bull, super music rapper Dual Core and authentic armadillos for racing, no doubt I was in Texas, yee haw!
With so many talks to choose from too often I did not know which to choose but luckily for us all the videos and slides will be released soon to be able to see them with all the calm and discipline that they deserve.
I had the pleasure of talking about Web honeypots, a topic I find very interesting and with much work to be done. Specifically I talked about a project that I’ve been working for some time and that I have rescued from the trunk of memories and that through VULNEX can devote professional resources 🙂
We can really see how American companies have a different attitude as being more agile as opposite Spanish companies, just see the photo of the Job Board with well-known companies looking for all kind of roles in application security.
From here I would like to thanks the entire organization for the super event and see you at the next appointment AppSec USA 2013 in New York.
Note: In a couple of weeks the videos should be online, I will keep you posted!
Happy Halloween dear readers!
— Simon Roses Femerling
