If you’re at Black Hat this year, stop by the Bit9 booth #713. We’ll be there doing demos of application whitelisting along with some of the fun marketing stuff – a cash machine, raffle and the ubiquitous black T-shirts that engineering here is already clamoring for.

It’s been six years since I’ve personally been at the show. That was the year that Michael Lynn, a researcher for ISS disclosed how his new exploitations could be applied to old vulnerabilities in Cisco routers to seize control or shut them down. It was quite the hullabaloo. Everyone was talking about it having the potential to “take down the Net” and a bunch of attendees were drinking red bull all night trying to recreate it. Lawyers got involved. Business press swarmed. It seemed like the event became a bit corporate after that. No one wanted a repeat so the big security companies swarmed in the next year with sponsorships.

I’ve since become a fan of the Hacker Halted conferences. It should be interesting to see how the two compare after so long.

So if you’re there, drop by the booth or speak to us during the lunch sessions on August 3rd and 4th. We’ll be talking about how application whitelisting stopped some of the recent “APT” attacks at our customer sites.

And this just in from our social media master, Katie Campbell – The first 50 people who become followers of @Bit9 on Twitter and answer the question “Why is @Bit9’s Adaptive Application Whitelisting effective in stopping modern security threats?” will get one of the T-shirts. Just DM your address after you become a follower and @mention your answer to our question. Needs to be a good answer, though, to motive Katie to send you one so beware.

Also – if you have not registered for the conference yet, we have a discount of $250 savings on your Black Hat registration; please fill out our Contact Us form and we can send that along to you.