It's late. You're in the office alone, catching up on database administration. Behind you, your network servers hum along quietly, reliably. Life is good. No one can get to your data or disrupt your WAN. The network is secure. Or is it? 

The Black Hat Briefings conference has been organized to put an end to concerns like these. While many conferences focus on information and network security, only The Black Hat Briefings will put you, your engineers and software programmers face-to-face with today's cutting edge computer security experts and "underground" security specialists. 

Only the Black Hat Briefings conference will provide your people with the tools and understanding they need to help thwart those lurking either in the shadows of your firewall or the depths of your companies WAN. The reality is, they are out there. The choice is yours. You can live in fear of them. Or, you can learn from them.

Spanning two days, The Black Hat Briefings will focus on the vital security issues facing organizations with large Enterprise networks and mixed network operating systems. Topics will Include Intrusion Detection Systems, Computer Forensics systems, Incident Response, secure programming techniques and tool selection for creating and effectively monitoring your networks. Windows NT security as well as Unix network configurations will be covered. You will be put face to face with the people developing the tools used against hackers. 

Different than the Black Hat Briefings in the US: The Asia briefing will in its first year feature one track of speakers, with speaking times longer to give the speakers more time to explain complex issues. The audience will also have more time to ask questions. 

The Black Hat Briefing's intense sessions will bring to light the security and mis-configuration problems confronting organizations and network administrators, most of which go unnoticed by today's preoccupied system administrators where security gets put off in lieu of constant network growth and upgrades. Our speakers will discuss the strategies involved in correcting existing problems and speak towards what you can expect in the future.