ShmooCon Labs
Question
What happens when you have a hacker con, invite vendors, attendees, and networking veterans alike to setup the production conference network in one marathon session?
Answer:
Shmoocon Labs
Labs takes the experience of rapidly building out a production network for 1500 conference attendees to the next level by opening it up the public. We encourage vendors to bring their products and attendees to bring their willingness to geek out. As a particpant you will get hands on configuring, troubleshooting, and maintaining commercial and open source tools alike. As a vendor you will get your product exposed to a trial by fire interoperability fest, get feedback from attendees, and see how your product fairs once unleashed to the Shmoocon masses.
Con Attendees
Con attendess that signup for Shmoocon Labs will take a part in setting up a variety of commercial and open source components including ( but nessecarily limited too):
- Network switches and routers
- Firewalls
- Wireless Network Controllers and Access Points
- Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems
- Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention Systems
- Network monitoring tools
- DNS and DHCP servers
- Host hardening
- Vulnerability Assessment Scanners
Vendors
As a vendor you show up with networking or security products ready to get hands on showing participants configuration and operatation. Be ready to trouble shoot interopability issues, figure out how to export logs, harden, protect from attacks and more.
Requirements and How to Participate
If you are attending Shmoocon and would like to be considered for Shmoocon Labs please send a brief email to shmooconlabs@shmoocon.org explaining your why would like to participate and what your areas of expertise are.
Please note that participating in Shmoocon Labs requires the following:
- You have a ticket to Shmoocon.
- You arrive at the hotel and are ready to participate by 8 AM on Thursday, Feb. 5 (The day before ShmooCon starts.)
- All accepted labs participants will have to pay an additional $50. This is purely to cover the additional cost of hosting this event.
Vendor:
If you are a vendor that would like to participate in Shmoocon Labs please send an email to shmooconlabs@shmoocon.org explaining your product offering and how you think it will compliment the Shmoocon network. All vendors are expected to provide a product expert/engineer.