Security Voices

Day Job Series | BSides Origins, Present & Future

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Sinopsis

The second half of our Day Jobs series is the very first Security Voices episode we recorded: Dave interviewing Jack on the origins, shenanigans and future of BSides. Jack charts the history of the conference from its inception at a rental house in Las Vegas with a couple hundred people to today where Security BSides is a global movement that has eclipsed 500 events (and growing).One of the most unique aspects of Security BSides is that anyone can create their own event. It is a nonprofit organization that has as its heart a single, potent principle: be good to and for your community. The flexibility of BSides to be molded to the needs of the local community wherever it goes, from Memphis to Riyadh, is a core ingredient of its success. Jack explains how they carefully walk the line of letting each organizer shape their own BSides conference while stepping in only as necessary to lend a helping hand or occasionally correct course when things have come off the rails. The “just enough” guidance approach extends