Testimonials from the 2009 Louisville Metro InfoSec Conference...

"Hi. I just wanted to say that the recent ISSA-Kentuckiana Conference was without a question the best conference any ISSA chapter has held, and believe me, I have attended a lot of them. Congrats."

Dr. Eugene Schultz, CTO at Emagined Security and Keynote Speaker at the 2009 Louisville Metro InfoSec Conference

Paul Asadorian of Tenable and the very popular security podcast PaulDotCom wrote in his blog -

"A Small Conference with a Big Presence"

"Last week I attended the Louisville Metro Infosec conference that was held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The sold out event hosted 375 people and 28 sponsors. Although this was a small local event, it had the feel and energy of a much larger conference...

The Louisville Metro Infosec conference was an informative and fun environment to meet people and talk about information security. Everyone was very welcoming, friendly and eager to discuss all things related to information security, from the latest attacks, to the latest defensive strategies."

Read the entire blog post at the Tenable Blog.  Visit Paul on his podcast at PaulDotCom.

"I attended the Kentuckiana ISSA Louisville InfoSec conference on the 8^th of this month and I wanted to be sure and put something up about what a great event it was.

I participated in the CTF event that was put together by Adrian “Irongeek” Crenshaw (http://www.irongeek.com and @irongeek_adc). This is only the second CTF I’ve participated in (the first being the SANS Sec 504 CTF in San Diego) and I was really pleased with it.

You can view a write up and a brief video on the technical details of the CTF here: http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/louisville-infosec-ctf-2009.

My team ended up coming in fourth. The winning team was led by Dave Kennedy (http://securestate.blogspot.com/) who won by a pretty good margin, and the second, third, and fourth place teams all finished within about ten minutes or so of each other.

This was the second event I’ve attended that involved the Kentuckiana ISSA and Adrian and I’ve really enjoyed being involved. I think I’ll be joining ISSA in the very near future.

I wasn’t able to attend many of the talks due to being involved with the CTF but my colleagues who did spoke very highly of all of the speakers.

A big thanks to Adrian and the Kentuckiana ISSA for organizing this! I can’t wait until next year!"

Chris Sanders, Information Security Expert and author of Practical Packet Analysis from No Starch Press, from Paducah, KY

"Just returned last night from the Louisville Metro Information Security Conference in Kentucky. I typically stay clear from the Capture the Flag events as I'm usually networking with people or presenting. This year I decided (with a little nudge from a couple friends) to participate in the Louisville InfoSec capture the flag. This years CTF was designed and put on by Irongeek (http://www.irongeek.com) which your always in for a blast with him.

Our team came in first place and everyone on the team did an amazing job contributing. I have to give a shout out to Irongeek and his time and dedication to the CTF. It was truly a great experience. Some of the ideas, twists, vulnerability linking, and creativity of the overall CTF was a unique experience in itself. The hack with the rotating web cam to see a password written on the computer is just a taste of the creativity Irongeek put into the CTF.

Overall, it was truly a great time and a great experience at the Louisville InfoSec Conference, would highly recommend it next year!"

Dave Kennedy, Practice Lead at SecureState and 1st Prize Winner of Capture the Flag, Cleveland, OH

"Yesterday I went to the Louisville Infosec ISSA conference. It rocked!  The keynote by John Strand was simply outstanding..... "

George Starcher, IT Security Professional and ISSA Middle TN Member

"I felt this was a tremendous event. I talked to so many people from different organizations.  I'm sure all the vendors appreciate the Bingo Card which ensured that the attendees made it by our booths.  This event definitely helped Cadre build awareness and after that comes added business!  I am committed to the ISSA - it's been so helpful in introducing me to the Louisville IT folks.  Thank you for all your help in making this a great event."

The latest PaulDotCom Podcast features a discussion about this year's InfoSec Conference!

Here is someone only identified as "Bamed", speaking about the conference and the CTF competition on his website - "So how was it?  It was loads of fun.  Adrian did a great job.  He came up with an interesting challenge that wasn’t too difficult, so several beginners, such as myself, could get involved, and yet the creativity with the camera even kept the experts guessing for some time.  I’m looking forward to next year and hope I can make it again."