Speaker Lineup for THREADS ’14: Scaling Security

Summary: Trail of Bits announced the speaker lineup for THREADS '14, a conference focused exclusively on automating security, with early-bird tickets expiring 10/13. The program includes NSA TAO chief Robert Joyce, White Ops CEO Michael Tiffany, and a DARPA ICAS brief with Invincea Labs, Raytheon BBN, and Digital Operatives, alongside talks on binary analysis, ROP detection, and application security at Twitter, Netflix, and GitHub.
What's compelling: The conference premise is a staffing gap of roughly 20 or more developers writing potentially vulnerable code for every security engineer trained, which the organizers say leaves no human way to keep up. DARPA's ICAS project, aimed at detecting targeted attacks on large corporate networks, is framed against breaches at Target, Home Depot, and JPMorgan Chase.

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