The first talk after the keynote on day 2 of TROOPERS was from Christopher Truncer about passive intelligence gathering and the analytics of that. Christopher Truncer (@ChrisTruncer) is a red teamer with Mandiant. He is a co-founder and current developer of the Veil-Framework, a project aimed to bridge the gap between advanced red team and penetration testing toolsets.
His talk is mainly about defending a network from different threats by collecting and analyzing metadata from different sources.
At the second day of the TROOPERS16 conference an interesting talk about Advanced Persistent Threats took place from Marion Marschalek and Raphaël Vinot. Marion Marschalek is a Security Researcher, focusing on the analysis of emerging threats and exploring novel methods of threat detection. Marion started her career within the anti-virus industry and also worked on advanced threat protection systems where she built a thorough understanding of how threats and protection systems work and how both occasionally fail.
Last week, on the 27th-28th I attended a nice wireless conference in berlin, the WLPC (Wireless LAN Pros Conference). You can visit their website at http://berlin2015.wlanprosconference.com.
This conference is a community-driven conference from wireless professionals with focus on typical topics that come up when you are planning or running large wireless networks. This is a mainly Twitter based community, you can see some Tweets with hashtags #WLPC for example. There were also some interesting talks about future networks, for example Marko Tisler gave a talk about wireless LAN and SDN and what we can expect and what SDN will not solve for wireless networks.