We were happy to see that one of the panels up for selection at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival next year (March 12-16, 2010) is a panel about the security of social networks called “Inherent Dangers of Real-Time Social Networking”. The way panel selections work st SXSW is that they are up for open voting which ends on September 4th. Basically the voting works like this (from the SXSW site):
“SXSW is a community-driven event. So, knowing what kinds of topics you want to hear at the event next March is extremely important to us. Your voting accounts for about 30% of the decision-making process for any given programming slot.
Also important is the input of the SXSW Advisory Board, which is a group of industry professionals from across the US and around the world. The final part of the panel decision-making equation is the input of the SXSW staff.”
So yes, you have a big part in the selection process! This panel includes the following participants:
Jennifer Leggio (@mediaphyter), ZDNet
John Adams (@netik), Twitter operations and security incident response team
Damon Cortesi (@dacort), security consultant at Sevicron, founder of TweetStats, Twitter app developer
Mike Murray (@mmurray), CISO of Foreground Security
Awesome, awesome group for this panel. Here is the description of the panel (from the SXSW PanelPicker site):
“There’s plenty of chatter about social media and security issues, from social engineering to the naïveté of users. This panel of experts will explore how cyber criminals are taking advantage of socnets flaws and lack of user awareness, and what both individuals and companies can do to help protect themselves.”
Since this is one of the biggest media conferences of the year, we highly encourage you to vote for this panel. This will be one not to miss if selected! What are you waiting for? Go vote now!
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