Good times in Oslo

So most of last week I was in Olso, Norway and without my mittens. Ok I really need to let go of this mitten thing. I don't even own any. I just like the sound of the word...mmmiiittens, hmmm anyway I digress.

I finally met Kai and his business partner Lars who is also a thoroughly nice chap. The evening I landed we all went out for a meal. We talked about security culture and the work The Roer Group is doing around this, specifically the Security Culture Framework.

On the day of my presentation I was speaking after Martin Mckeay who works for Akamai as a Security Evangelist. I've been following his blog and pod casts for a number of years now so I was a little nervous. However, when my time came I felt at ease and I was good to go.

After my BSides talk I knew I could flesh that presentation out for another audience and still make it something that people would be able to relate to and hopefully take something away from. I managed to get through the thirty minutes fairly well and drew a few laughs which is always good as well as answer a couple of questions. Me being me as soon as I sat down I began to think about my delivery, the content and how I could have been better. Kai and Martin gave me some good feedback which I'm very appreciative of.

The evening concluded with a nice meal and awesome company thank you to Akamai for picking up the bill for my meal :)

I saw a little bit of Oslo, made some new friends and managed to survive a thirty minute presentation, I think there's more to come...actually I'm speaking at the OWASP Birmingham Chapter meeting in December...time to practice the brummy accent ;)

Thank you to Kai and Lars for being lovely hosts and to the rest of the people I met over the three days.

I'll be back!

Link to the video here Courtesy of Kai Productions

Off to Oslo!

Although I had planned to submit to a CFP somewhere (namely, to the full track at BSides London for 2014) after my BSides London Rookie Track talk, I hadn't anticipated on getting invited to speak at an event. So I was quite flattered when Kai Roer (@kairoer / roer.com) asked me if I'd like to speak at the Cloud Security Alliance annual chapter meeting in Oslo.

I shall be donning my mittens and flying out in a couple of weeks to do an extended and revised version of my BSides talk.

I'll be talking about my Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) experience and how I brought this in to InfoSec.

Once I've thawed out I shall post an update here.