Bill Brenner posted an entry at CSOOnline, Black Hat and the Hype Machine. Bill is a good guy and I think he generally came to the conclusion that the event is worth the hype. The devil’s advocates say that the event is overly hyped, and point to several front page vulnerabilities that have come out of the event that haven’t amounted to anything.

I look at it from a different perspective, and I have a hard time thinking of significant security breaches of a technical nature that I didn’t first see the groundwork of at Black Hat. It is not as simple as crystal ball sessions called Attacks 2012, but if you connect the dots, the Zero-Day vulnerabilities, web hacking and virtually everything else has been pretty well laid out. There are several other good events, like CanSecWest, so I don’t want to single out BH for kudos, but a security event can’t control the type of hype created by the mainstream media, which is still very one dimensional about information security.

Although I do very much like Vegas and might not go to it if it were held in Outer Mongolia (are the Pussycat Dolls there?), I actually plan on attending sessions, how about you?