Security Conferences

I am looking for some good security conferences that would allow someone to network with peers, grow in knowledge and expand our horizons. Here is a preliminary list. I will also create some typelists for future reference. Feel free to suggest others along with any comments. There are also plenty of vendor conferences where you can learn a lot about products - I'll try to keep those off the list.

The Gartner IT Security Summit
June 5-7, 2006
Washington DC
http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/SEC12/webpages/Home.aspx

CSI NetSec 06
June 12-14, 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
http://www.csinetsec.com/

Microsoft Tech·Ed 2006
June 12-16, 2006
Boston, Massachusetts
http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2006/default.mspx

Identity Mash-Up Conference Who controls & protects the digital me?
June 19-21, 2006
Cambridge, Massachusetts
http://www.identitymash-up.org/

Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
June 28-30, 2006
Cambridge, United Kingdom
http://petworkshop.org/2006/
http://weis2006.econinfosec.org/

SANS Fire
Washington DC
July 5-13, 2006
http://www.sans.org/sansfire06/

IT Architecture Practitioners Conference (Open Group)
Miami, FL
July 17-19, 2006
http://www.opengroup.org/miami2006/

Black Hat
Las Vegas, Nevada
July 29 - Aug 3, 2006
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-link/training.html

15th USENIX Security Symposium
Vancouver, BC
July 31 - Aug 4, 2006
http://www.usenix.org/events/sec06/

The Security Standard (IDG)
September 6-7, 2006
Boston, Massachusetts
http://www.thesecuritystandard.net/

Digital ID World 2006: Managing The Decentralization of Identity
September 11-13, 2006
Santa Clara, California
http://conference.digitalidworld.com/2006/

Interop
September 18-22, 2006
New York, New York
http://www.interop.com/

Security Decisions conference (TechTarget)
Chicago, Illinois
October 18-20, 2006
http://infosecurityconference.techtarget.com/

Network Security Conference (ISACA)
Las Vegas, Nevada
November 13-15, 2006
http://www.isaca.org/nsc

RSA Conference
San Francisco, California
February 5-9, 2007
https://2007.rsaconference.com/US/

6th Annual Security Conference
Las Vegas, Nevada
April 11-12, 2007
http://www.security-conference.org/

Comments

[Sandy Borthick]

12/18/06
I can't find a way to email you, so I'll try posting here. I would like to exchange a few emails with you, hoping you might contribute an article to one of the spring, 2007, issues of BCR. Please contact me: borthick at amigo.net
thanks!
Sandy Borthick
Senior Editor
Business Communicaitons Review