I think its good to be there and rub shoulder with other big guns. i have booked a place for myself. If you book the training as well, you can save a lot of money and also achieve the LPT cerification. Guys get on the phone and get a place reserve.

Good luck venom77 on your ECSA/LPT course. Hope you don't mind but we're expecting a full report when you're done. 

Anyone else going? Care to meet up with other EH-Net members? Share your thoughts on this or past Techno Security Confs?

Don

Well, today was the first day of the conference, but I did not attend any seminars. I did attend the Exhibition and bought a couple of books at the conference bookstore. I met the the guy that posted above, Barry, although I just realized that was him when I got back to this site. I also met and had some good discussions with Sanjay Bavisi, President of EC-Council, and Aaron Cohen, CEO of The Hacker Academy. Both are very cool people whom I've had contact with in the past by email/phone and I was real happy to meet each of them in person. I did watch a short demonstration at The Hacker Academy exhibit by their instructor, Ralph Echemendia. He did a short presentation on information gathering with some Google searches and then ended touching briefly on nmap and scanning. He said his presentations over the next couple days will build on each other.

All in all, it wasn't too bad and seems to be a pretty decent conference. Being that I'm only 23 (and my job title on my ID badge is 'HelpDesk Technician') I did get a few funny looks from some people. I seemed to be the youngest there, that I saw, and probably stood out amongst many of the older executive-looking people. Some of the exhibitors wouldn't really even acknowledge me when I was at their booth, and a couple were friendly enough to start talking.

I'll have to check out what's going on for tomorrow and maybe there will be some more interesting presentations going on that I'll attend.

Where was Bill Gates at 23? They're just jealous.  

As for the people you met, seems like a good group. I've never met Ralph, but Sanjay and Aaron are great to work with. From what I understand, Ralph was part of the core group to put together the ECSA materials.

Have fun, and good luck in the class.

Don

Thanks guys.

I didn't get a chance to talk to Ralph. He had a girl with him (probably girlfriend?) and right after the presentation they got up and looked to be heading somewhere, I didn't want to interrupt. I'll probably chat with him one of these other days hopefully.

YaY! Passed the test today

Headed out for dinner now, but more info will follow...

I forgot to post my results. I passed and trying to get the rest of the information together and get it to them.