For its third year as Toronto’s security conference, next month’s
SecTor, is adding awards to the mix, a new way to continue the show’s stated goal of recognizing and expanding the Canadian security community.
Brian Bourne, co-founder of SecTor and president of Toronto-based solution provider
CMS Consulting, said the security conference saw an awards recognition program as the next logical step in its ongoing quest to promote and develop the Canadian solution provider community, but wanted to keep the awards simple.
This year, the awards will include three categories, for best free security tool, best commercial security tool, and best overall security solution. For all of the above, Bourne said the qualifications include being based in Canada, and having a solution that is both relevant and practical.
“It’s the next evolution of supporting and being part of that security community, Bourne said.
The awards, to be presented at the event October 6 and 7 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, will also come with a nice reward for the winners, an “Infiltrator: SecTor Edition” netbook, the return of the built-for-penetration-testing netbooks assembled by
Metasploit founder HD Moore.
“HD’s a rock star in the space, and for him to put together a netbook with all the tweaking that you’d spend hours one, all done by the guy who can do it perfectly, is very cool,” he said.
But perhaps more than the customized and much-sought-after netbook prizes, the awards are about building the awareness of the amount of Security talent and the security innovation going on in this country, Bourne said.
