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REVIEWS
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Participating in the PHDays CTF means a lot of swag!
Thijs Bosschert Verizon Business -
When you see the CFP for PHDays 2013 open up you really should submit. You will be treated great and given an opportunity to meet a whole group of people who are really passionate about computer security.
Jerry Gamblin Missouri House of Representatives -
This event started last year as the first conference in Russia for security researchers focusing on deeply technical speakers.
Alexandr Matrosov ESET -
The CTF was cool. It was real fun!
Arvind S Raj BIOS Team -
The PHD forum was packed with technical and business seminars, hacking contests and emerging security technologies demonstrating the latest security issues and challenges security professionals face on a daily basis.
DTS Solution information security company
About Forum
Welcome to the web site of Positive Hack Days, the international forum on practical information security issues.
Today, as never before, there is a need for a dialog between all representatives of the information protection community. That is why we developed Positive Hack Days, an event of absolutely new format..
WHAT?
Sergey Gordeychik,
Positive Technologies
Positive Hack Days is an international forum on practical information security issues organized by the Positive Technologies company.
Positive Hack Days is a unique event not only for Russia, but worldwide. It is the only event which brings together the elite of the hackers' world, leaders of the information security industry and representatives of the Internet community to cooperate in addressing the most topical issues of the IT market.
Positive Hack Days is theory inwrought with practice, a professional discussion intertwined with enthralling competitions and contests, maximum practice with minimum formalities.
How much does it take to hack a mobile network?
Is electronic government secure in the era of WikiLeaks and Anonymous?
Is SCADA hacking a Hollywood fiction or the nowadays reality?
Internet banking: is there any chance to win over the fraudsters?
Cybercrimes, cyberspyin, cybercrwar: where do we draw a borderline?
WHO?
Aleksey Lukatsky,
Cisco Systems
In 2012, the Positive Hack Days forum will host more than 1,000 participants including:
- The leading Russian and international IT companies;
- International experts in information security;
- Advanced adepts from Russia and the USA, European and Asian countries;
- The best university teams from all over the world;
- Representatives of government institutions and authorities.
WHAT ABOUT?
Aleksander Gostev,
Kaspersky Lab
PHD considers various preferences of the entire information community and covers the most topical issues related to information security.
The topics of the forum include the following:
- Security of critical information systems;
- Fraud management;
- Cybercrimes and investigation of incidents;
- Government and corporate security in the era of WikiLeaks;
- Cyberwar and cyberspying.
As well as: protection of cloud computing and virtual infrastructure, counteraction to 0-day attacks and investigation of incidents, protection against DDoS, computerized process control systems (SCADA) security, protection of business applications and ERP, and communication network security.
WHAT FOR?
Evgeny Tsarev,
LETA IT-company
Heads of IT and IS services will share their experience with peers and discuss topical issues of IS.
Representatives of government institutions will have an opportunity to estimate present-day threats to electronic government resources and find ideal solutions.
Specialists in information protection will have an opportunity to improve their professional and practical skills.
Vendors of security tools and systems will be able to test their products in practice by incorporating them into the CTF tasks and challenges.
Novices will get new experiences and a chance to find future employers.
HOW?
PHD program includes:
- Master Classes by acknowledged practitioners where attendees will be able to see with their own eyes and test with their own hands whether it is possible to hack their resources and how the resources can be protected;
- Round tables with leading domestic and international experts addressing complicated issues of information security;
- Technical seminars on the results of the latest researches in protection and attack methods;
- Contests in security analysis, hacking and protection of whatever can be hacked and protected;
- International hacker contests in protection and hacking informational resources.
