BSidesTLV Goes Live for the Second Edition: 4 Things You Should Know

BSidesTLV 2017 was a unique place with a very special atmosphere. Friendly, and vibrant it invites to observe and admire the shared knowledge. Exciting, spectacular, surprising, fascinating- impressions that were left to any visitor or speaker.

Security BSides is a hacker convention that runs guidelines to a close community for information security conferences. BSides was co-initiated by Mike Dahn, Jack Daniel, and Chris Nickerson in 2009.

It started from a small group of individuals curious about other security topics, outside of BlackHat.

BSidesTLV started in 2016. This year – 2017 - it is at its second edition with fabulous organizers: Keren Elazari, Inbar Raz, Ilan Gracier, Omer Cohen, Oded Levin, Yaniv Balmas, and Reut Mensahe. It leverages unique access to the world’s most influential cyber security professionals, and hackers — uniting forces to share their collective knowledge, address critical security vulnerabilities and discuss pioneering solutions, without commercial noise. Indeed, it was all about sharing knowledge.

Entering a different world with a host like Keren Elazari and her team made the experience truly exceptional. Totally honestly (I am emphasising on purpose), I have never attended an event where the organizers were so supportive, and involved with the speakers. The event was full of personal tips, surprising expert knowledge and amazing insights.?It hosted 900 registered attendees and around 500 walk-ins.

That's why I was extremely happy to be part of BSidesTLV 2017 as one of the speakers in the underground session. Unfortunately, my laptop got stolen the night before. My talk was about acoustic hacking and therefore I had some demos that I could not address anymore. This did not stop me :). I will share more details within this article so everyone can benefit, and raise awareness about the topic.

Beforehand, I am giving here an exclusive preview of this incredible experience, and sharing the BSidesTLV experience highlights.

1/ The Dinner

BSidesTLV hosted a private dinner for the speakers on the 27th?June evening. Needless to say, putting together an event like this with a distinct dinner is incredibly time overwhelming. Everything—the planning, guest follow-ups, logistics, the exceptional hospitality — took the team, I – guess - huge efforts.?Clearly, a dinner for all the speakers required many hands. We were welcomed in a local restaurant called Yosef Hummus and guess what was for dinner? :) Hummus!!! A very yummy hummus.

With every single part of the dinner —from table setting to menu with yummy food, and drinks — prepared to feel the local delights, there was a lot to choose from. The evening was very cool.?We had the chance to meet every speaker before the actual event.

We enjoyed culinary delights and friendly service. The restaurant was located near Tel Aviv University. It excelled with its offering and we - the guests - were pampered with local redefined dishes. Accompanied with an awesome special lemonade, we had everything to be ready for the BIG day.

2/ My Talk

I was the third speaker in the underground session, alongside with brilliant speakers like Yaron King, Avi Douglen, Dave Lewis, and Tal Melamed.

In conjunction with?INTEL?sponsorship,?BSidesTLV?organized a security challenge built and prepared amazingly by?Guy Barnhart-Magen?that took place before the conference.. The winners were invited to the underground session.

I am also thanking VOTIRO for their?support with my laptop drama ??!

More details are described on Peerlyst within my post:

3/ Other Talks:

Chris Nickerson, co-founder BSides Security Movement was speaking at the conference, for an opening speech. Chris was amazing on stage and the ambiance was ON for the show.

Other confirmed speakers of the conference included ALPER BASARAN, Chief Hacking Officer at Garnizon, GUY BARNHART-MAGEN, security research manager at Intel, YAIR AMIT, Co-Founder and CTO at Skycure, leading the company’s research and vision and overseeing its R&D center, JOSH CORMAN, Founder of I am The Cavalry (dot org) and Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative for the Atlantic Council, TAL LIBERMAN, cyber security research team lead at enSilo, AMIT SERPER, security research at Cybereason's Boston HQ, CHRIS ROBERTS, world’s foremost experts on counter threat intelligence within the Information security industry, OMER GIL, information security team leader in EY Advanced Security Center in Tel Aviv, MOSHE ZIONI (DALMOZ), security researcher, and Iftach Ian Amit, Co-Founder of DC9723 and Board of Directors BSidesLV. Speakers were from around the world from Turkey to Singapore. They assembled to share insights through a main session in the afternoon, covering the wide range of topics.

The new cyber women power was on the spot with Luda Lazar. The themes for the conference went from phishing kits, mobile containers, healthcare devices, Atom Bombing to cache deception, and many more.

4/ The After Party:

Blending house vibrations, plus the ultimate cool vibes, here’s was an event that everyone enjoyed.

After the full day of knowledge sharing it was time to relax.

The after-party was hosted in terrace bar near Tel Aviv University, with incredible views at night. Above and beyond, who doesn’t love a good outdoor party?!

One of the most thrilling highlights of the night was all the pizza and drinks in concurrence with the great company ??

During the afterparty, I met Evgeny Belenky, Director of Community at Peerlyst - community of InfoSec experts, and media partner for BSidesTLV.?It was great catching up and discussing great opportunities to share and expand free quality knowledge within the cyber security community.

I LOVE THAT PLATFORM !

?Peerlyst is building a community where information security professionals can gather together online through great content and innovative solutions for security challenges.??

Through the evening, I also had a chat with Omer Cohen. Omer was part of the BSidesTLV organization committee. He actually was an amazing support and help through the journey with all the adventure. I am sending a great thank you back from Singapore.

My participation in BSidesTLV would not have been possible without the support of an amazing team, especially with Keren Elazari, equipped with incredible knowledge and research skills that are contagious to anyone who is part of the infosec community.

Thank you Keren, Inbar, Ilan, Omer, Oded, Yaniv, and Reut for an incredible experience.

By Magda Chelly:

Former Chief Security Officer | Author & Keynote Speaker | IFSEC Global Top 20 Cybersecurity Influencer | Entrepreneur | PhD, S-CISO, CISSP, Cert SCI (General Insurance)

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