This week I stayed some days in Zurich, to give a workshop and to meet both
clients and fellow researchers (kudos again to C. for the awesome office tour
@Google). In the course of one of those dinners somehow Troopers was mentioned
and a guy asked: “I’ve heard of the conference. What’s so special about it?”
Funnily enough I didn’t even have to respond myself as a
2011 attendee
coincidentally present at the table jumped in and started praising the event
(“best con ever. great spirit, great talks”). Obviously this gave me a big grin…
but it reminded as well me that some of you might ask themselves the very same
question.
Here we go again: TROOPERS12 is scheduled for March 19^(th) – 23^(rd) 2012 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Those who attended TROOPERS before know for what we are up to. For all
newcomers I’ll quickly outline what’s going to happen:
TROOPERS is your premium IT security event in Europe. Think of your usual IT
educational event without annoying sales pitching and outdated topics. Now add a
superb conference location, an elite line-up of international
researchers and practitioners as well as an
organizing team not dedicated to make a living
doing this, but to celebrate our craftsmanship together with like-minded people.
TROOPERS11 was a blast! We received great feedback from all attendees and
speakers. This really pushes ourselves towards the next goals and an even better
security conference in 2012.
We’re happy that everybody got home safely with new ideas and inspirations in
mind. On a side note: The awesome TROOPERS badge caused trouble for some of
you with the airport security 😉 I really hope everybody could find a way to
take it back home. It will hopefully find its way to an adequate place right
next to your old memorabilia (cup of the first won soccer match, your college
degree or photos from your first ballet show). Regard it as the proof of your
latest achievement and tell everybody proud and loud: WE ARE TROOPERS.
We’re delighted to announce the first speakers of next year’s
Troopers edition. Looks like it’s going to be a great
event again ;-).
Here we go:
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Ravishankar Borgaonkar & Kevin Redon: Femtocell: Femtostep to the Holy Grail
(Attacks & Research Track)
Abstract: Femtocells are now being rolled out across the world to enhance third
generation (3G) coverage and to provide assurance of always best connectivity in
the 3G telecommunication networks. It acts as an access point that securely
connect standard mobile handset to the mobile network operator’s core network
using an existing wired broadband connection.
I’m happy to announce that the presentations and a majority of the videos from
TROOPERS10 are finally available to you.
You’ll find the slides at the conference’s website
troopers.de, more precisely
here. Plenty of videos
were uploaded and are now ready for streaming at
viddler.com/TROOPERS. Enjoy!
Please excuse the long waiting time – this is a big point on our ‘improvements
for upcoming events’ list. Talking about improvements: If you have any
suggestions, criticism or even praise for past or upcoming events – let us know
in the comment section.
Here we go again: TROOPERS12 is scheduled for March 19^(th) – 23^(rd) 2012 in Heidelberg, Germany.