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BSidesLV & DEFCON Conference Tips ** UPDATED 2018! **

Often before conferences, I tend to make a post for first timers. I never created one for BSidesLV or DEFCON before.

These are just my experiences and recommendations.

Do your own thing! Make the conference about what YOU want it to be about!

(That was tip #1)

I’ll be adding to this often as my brain remembers stuff.

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Post-Insight Wrap-up, Storage Security, and other thoughts!

It’s been a super busy month for JK-47, having just come back from Netapp Insight, TechFieldDay Extra, giving a #vBrownBag Storage Security Lighting Talk, and now getting dozens of customers ready for end of year DR tests and new purchases. This time of year I tend to meet with 10-15 customers a week making sure everything is going smoothly, and also looking over their storage with healthchecks of the past years’ data.
Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uf5YsUf9AU

In the past week, I spent some time talking to NetApp’s Tech ONTAP Podcast. The topic of interest was Storage Security, which I have a great passion for. Listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/techontap_podcast/episode-61-security-and-storage

Want to know more? Click Inside!

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My response to an article about 451 Research SAN/Cloud

Honestly, I have a strong dislike for researcher analyst firms. (Gartner / Magic Quadrant especially) Most are so far removed from what they claim to rate and research that they don’t have a clue what they are talking about.

Metrics can be skewed any way you please, to favor income sources as you see fit.

This reply is not against Phil Wainewright or his comments on the 451 study, but the lack of vision and visibility the analyst firm put on Netapp’s positioning of their [poorly named] Data Fabric.

Pasting it here to save it.

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A rough outline on a possible BSidesLV 2015 talk

I want to do a session at this years BSidesLV security. This is my rough outline I just threw together of what I would want to cover.

Any comments? Critiques? Please tweet at me. @jk47theweapon

Introduction to Storage Network Security

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Physical datacenter {in}security?

I do LockSport (competitive lock picking) as a hobby. Here is an example of a lock which is deemed “Pick Resistant” in the hands of a novice such as myself.

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