Security Conference Topics Analytics

[cokesme]

An analytic system reporting most commonly discussed topics and those areas...not covered as much

Defcon has a list of their presentations up on their media server. Let's get to data gathering. Build a crawler and scrapper to get the titles for presentations

https://media.defcon.org/

How do we want to organize it and store it?

[gaelanadams]

scrapy

[noncetonic]

While I think this is a possibly good idea I feel that it has many shortcomings such as the fact that DEF CON has been going strong for 20 years and as such the large majority of the talks are effectively worthless for us. Here are the titles from DEF CON 1 :

The Law and Its Intersection with Virtual Reality
Future Developments in UNIX Security (SATAN)
Future of the Computer Undergound
Liablity
Liablity Questions and Answers
Computer Privacy and the 1st Amendment
Virus Development and Concerns
To Hack or Not to Hack

Here are all the titles from DEF CON 2 :

European Hacker Scene
Private Investigator War Stories
Recombinant Culture
Virus Creation Awards
Privacy Rights
Radio Overview
Social Elements in Networking
Hacking Cell Phones
Cellular Workshop
Antivirus Programming
What the SPA Does
PGP Keynote
Pirate Radio Battling the FCC
Hackers in the UK
Privacy and Anonymity on the Internet
Illegal FBI wire tap activity
HERF
Tempest

As you can see, these are all effectively worthless because they are talking about 20 year old crap. Hell their keynote was on PGP at DEF CON 2...

It would be much more advantageous to simple start tracking as many conferences across the board in a database that shows year of the talk, conference, speaker, slides/videos, and the talk abstract. This would allow us to have a basic database of talks that we could reference quickly and by searching abstracts we could easily pull up any talks we wanted to revisit.

Just my $0.02

[7h3rAm]

Something on the lines of http://cc.thinkst.com/working/conference/ | http://cc.thinkst.com/topic/list/ ?

[grant-h]

Google Scholar for security conferences seems like a great idea (with a better UI of course).