What is Positive Hack Days?

Positive Hack Days VI is an international forum on practical information security organized by the Positive Technologies company in Moscow, Russia. This year held 17-18 May, 2016.

Positive Hack Days is a unique global event. It is the only event which brings together the elite of the hackers' world, leaders of the information security industry and representatives of the Internet community to cooperate in addressing burning information security issues.

PHDays covers a wide variety of topics within the information security community and this year the below topics will receive special focus:

• Security of critical information systems
• Fraud management
• Cybercrimes and investigation of incidents
• Government and corporate security in the era of WikiLeaks
• Cyberwar and cyberspying

The forum will also address issues such as (entire list as is). 0-day attacks counteraction, protection against DDoS, ICS/SCADA security, protection of business applications and ERP, communication network security. During its existence, the forum has been attended by Bruce Schneier, a well-known cryptography expert, Datuk Mohd Noor Amin (United Nations), Travis Goodspeed, an engineer and radio amateur, Tao Wan, the founder of China Eagle Union, Marc Heuse, a researcher and developer also known as van Hauser, Vladimir ‘3APA3A’ Dubrovin, Karsten Nohl and others. In this year many stars of hacker community will speak at PHDays, like John Matherley – the creator of Shodan, a cyber-detective John Bambenek, Chris Hadnagy, Nahuel Grisolía, Markku-Juhani Saarinen, Alexander Sverdlov and others.

The PHDays Everywhere Initiative

The event will be accessible to those who cannot attend in Moscow this year. We invite you to be part of the PHDays Everywhere initiative.

The event will be steamed via webcast and we encourage simultaneous hacker events worldwide, see below for more details on how to participate locally.

Online forum participants are provided with the following features:

• Join the audience through the Internet HD-broadcast
• Participate in discussions and ask questions of the speakers coming online
• Compete for prizes by participating in hacking challenges and in an intellectual quiz on practical security. Only the visitors of PHDays Everywhere sites will be able to participate in several challenges which we encourage you to organize with our help.

In the years 2012-2014 dozens of sites expanded the forum's geography due to interactive connection. To participate in PHDays IV in the last year specialists in information security organized their own venues in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Birzeit (Palestine), Beirut (Lebanon), Tunis (Tunisia), Kiev and Lviv (Ukraine), as well as in many Russian cities. Each of these hacker spaces turned into a serious event of the regional level and joined together up to 150 local information security specialists. If you want to become a part of this great community, don’t miss your chance to join PHDays Everywhere in this year.

What do you need to join PHDays Everywhere?

To join us as a PHDays Everywhere site just email us at phd@ptsecurity.com and let us know which of the following activities look interesting to you.

Depending on the number of rooms and beamers, network channels bandwidth and other characteristics you will be able to determine the conditions on the site and capabilities that will be provided for the visitors of your site. When you have set your event plans, we will ask you to share this information with us (name, description, logos, links and contacts), and we will publish them on our website to co-advertise your event.

If you have any questions about the PHDays Everywhere initiative, please contact PHDays managers here phd@ptsecurity.com