BSidesATL 2020 - Closing Remarks

you wanna you want to run first or you want you want me to or how do you what do you want to do here Joe Joe are you here Joe

given all the prizes away yeah we get 21 prizes what is 121 yeah so it was fun being mrs. Santa Claus and now I have to go out and mail these things for you for you people having fun in the connect track right now hold on just a second I am wearing clothes today all right stop you know what guys and I know we I don't know how many people we got in this channel right now we got 13 folks in the channel you know what we survived this and and Wow that's all I've got to say is Wow too much fun in the Kinect track channel right now thank you so Joe what do we

have left to give away Joe you're muted oh you better you're giving the dog away one last giveaway and that is the Chromebook and that goes to Mary Cruz so I will send that out momentarily did you want me to do a quick call out for the CTF winners yeah absolutely okay oh gosh I hate doing names cuz I know I get so sensitive about mine alright third place Alejandro a second place was Robert and first place is Brady yeah it was for CTF very nice merit meri is showing a high degree of excitement in the channel that she won something

thank you was that was that your daughter we gave the Chromebook to two years ago that's great okay that's outstanding same company by the way gave us a Chromebook this year is the one that gave us a Chromebook two years ago so there you go so that what have you got I just say we have speaker gifts that I personally picked out it's a gift that I would want to get and if you filled out the Google form then we have your address if not please make sure we have your address and we'll send those out as soon as possible to make sure we show gratitude for everybody showing up and being on time and

following the rules and you know being prepared everybody had great slides and great content and that was really helpful to us because you know we had to do this all virtually and you guys were pros at just joining this as well I don't really know if we were pros but we pretended like oh Patrick what have you got we all really need to thank Patrick because he's now at Netflix and we are all falling on his mercy that he keeps me oh he's muted sorry that he keeps Netflix up and running for all everybody else and I do not do ensure security at Netflix yeah I try to keep things secure but I just want to thank all of the

sponsors all the other organizers all the speakers we had some really great talks I was in the protect tract and all of those here and there and just some really great stuff so thank you to everybody who and Patrick is West Coast so he was up at what time this morning [Music] that is yeah yeah if I'm awake at 4:30 typically it means I'm going to bed yeah when I saw him this morning I wanted to I wanted to ask him if he had been he'd just stayed up from the night before but I didn't want to be presumptuous so I will be taking a nap shortly you've earned it buddy take two naps Matt you got anything

there we go so I've got a few things I want to do this one more time because literally we could not have done what we did today without them but I want to acknowledge all of our sponsors one more time Time Warner Warner Media NCR Bishop Fox my home department at home College Council State University the Michael J Cole's College of Business and the Department of Information Systems genuine parse company and coalfire I also want to acknowledge synopsis and critical path security at the Silver level we want to acknowledge core light guide point security kehna security Black Hills information security Aaron's in binary defense and at the bronze level NCC group and our in-kind sponsors

the EC Council for their training yesterday as well as a secure code warrior for staging the VT VT Fi I'm just making up acronyms now CTL I think that's better than a CTF it's a very CTF we'll also want to acknowledge the organizations and individuals who gave us items to give away throughout the day and the raffle my constant crosshair information technology across the information technology Joe gray information security and the pen tester lab finally well not finally yeah finally not it and I have a surprise for everybody this has been a virtual conference and we've been pushing this map all day long and please one last time we hope that you will visit that map because we want to know

where you're from we want to know I'm trying to get back and not sure that that anymore I think I stopped I stopped sharing that yes we want to we want to know where you are please take a couple minutes to drop drop the pin in the map so that we know where you were hanging out with us today from next a couple weeks ago we thought we were going to be physical we we're gonna have this great plan to hand out t-shirts we're gonna have t-shirts for everybody and that was going to be a thing right and then the world stood on its head and we had to spin this thing up into a virtual format with less than

almost less than two weeks notice and it has been a challenge but one that I think that we have successfully navigated but one of the things that we communicated to our personal sponsors was that we were not going to be able to handle t-shirts we just simply were not equipped to handle that in in thinking about everything else that we need to get done along the way and so we gave you an opportunity to ask for a refund no questions asked we understood and we had almost 300 sponsored personal sponsors and less than 15 less than 20 left us and so a thank you for that and B we had a t-shirt company reach out to

us and offer a solution and so we believe that what we're going to be able to offer everybody in two groups and listen carefully now is that one of the perks of being a personal sponsor was that you would get a t-shirt we think that we have worked that out and we will be communicating with you how to do that in the forthcoming week or so a couple of weeks probably to get this all stood up but what we will be relying on is the email address that you punched into Tito to place your ticket order as a personal sponsor and so if that is not an email address that you frequently check please do keep an eye on it

because we will be pushing details out about that and how you can go about getting the shirt that is part of your personal sponsorship those of you who are not personal sponsors don't feel left out don't feel slighted we have a plan for you as well we are going to be standing up a virtual webstore where anybody can purchase the t-shirt for today's of that and so we will be making details about that available again in next couple of weeks is we're able to work through that we are also looking at adding to adding to our attire selection is there anybody out there who like hoodies I'm looking in the flak channel anybody like goodies

yes the t-shirt should say I survive these these virtual b-sides oh good lord all the yeses for the hoodies well we think we can pull it off no promises no guarantees but we're looking at adding a number of items in the virtual webstore and so good lord all right enough enough enough I know everybody wants a hoodie stop it good lord so we we will be working to make that available for you the next couple of weeks also please do not walk away from the slack workspace we've had a great deal of fun in here today but we actually knew this is not just a one-off type thing to get us through the day we

we envisioned this as a way to stay connected with you nice folks globally throughout the year and so whether we do this virtually next year or not whether we do it in person or not whether we do a hybrid a lot of decisions to be made we're nowhere near making those decisions yet but we want to stay connected with you and one of the things that we have talked about doing is hosting webinars throughout the year we're in the very early planning stages of that it seems that the I think everybody would agree the zoom worked pretty well and so we think that we see some opportunity here who wants socks we're not getting socks in the stop it

we're not getting socks well maybe maybe we'll get a socks I don't know no stocks no definitely no stocks charlie no we're working on it we're moving in that direction so we we need to hit the drawing board and figure out what these intermediate events might look like on a much smaller scale but understand that is something that we're looking at and one of the ways that we will communicate will be through the slack workspace another will be through our Twitter account that's oh wait oh good lord Elvis stop it I'm just gonna stop so yes I will sell my you socks queue absolutely yes I will so now we're just getting silly now it's

the end of the day it's been a long day so just keep we've got a lot of things cooking and we've got now that the pressures off of us with today and getting through today I think that I think we all agree we've had some conversations internally that there are some real opportunities here and we would like to see how we can capitalize on that to maybe not just make b-sides a once-a-year thing especially in Atlanta so we'll see what that looks like we will be in touch keep an eye on the slack workspace keep an eye on Twitter and I am I am just gonna stop talking now because I am tired and I want a cigar and a glass of

bourbon with that anybody else any closing remarks and I thank you to everybody we appreciate this this was a learning experience for us and I mean honestly a month ago we thought we were still gonna be able to pull this off in person and in less than a week had to quickly pivot and start looking at other options and we spent a lot of time on calls and you know going sorry going through people want to see the dog yeah she's dying just a bit on 10 walks by today but we just a few tick appreciate everybody is their time and attention you know I guess what else did we have to do today um but be quarantined and watch be sighs

which is amazing so we appreciate that and I had a dissertation to work on and I'm in the process of buying a house so you know I got stuff yeah I'm just saying so anyway enough so what else are we done we're done good lord we did let's see what the final count is a hundred people in the in the webinar and let's go look at did we spin back yeah sixty-eight people on Twitter so we'll take it god I look even worse on twitch than I do live it in person so I think we'll shut it down guys and girls kitties of all ages wherever you are we hope you found the day worthwhile and a

few are GMT plus four or five or six we hope that the concept was worth staying up throughout the night I think we'll sign off from here and we will see everybody we hope sooner rather than later