Toronto’s Security User Group TASK – Toronto Area Security Klatch, provides a forum for experts to encourage discussion and share expertise in understanding the latest trends and security threats facing computer networks, systems and data.
Our membership includes Information Security practitioners, managers, network administrators, students, and anyone who is interested in learning more about securing information.
If you would like to become a member, simply submit the form below. We’ll email you each month with the updated session details and meeting location.
TASK meets the last Wednesday of each month, and membership is free.
Scheduled Events
Breaking In – News Ways to Exploit the ‘Net
May TASK Meeting: Breaking In – News Ways to Exploit the ‘Net 25 May 2011; 6:00 – 9:00 PM Health Science Centre, 155 College Street, Room 610 Talk 1: Practical Spearphishing, from Targeting to Exfiltration While most of us understand that users are often our weakest line of defense, most security teams and CSO’s don’t […]
Winning (and Keeping) Your Dream Job
April TASK Meeting – Winning (and Keeping) Your Dream Job 27 April 2011; 6:00 – 9:00 PM Health Science Centre, 155 College Street, Room 610 The so-called “soft skills” (non-technical skills that facilitate good interpersonal relationships) tend to be misunderstood and undervalued in the IT and information security communities. The April TASK event will introduce […]
March Task Meeting
Speaker 1: From the Floor at Shmoocon (Brian Bourne, CMS Consulting) Brian attended the annual east-coast security conference, Shmoocon ( http://www.shmoocon.org/schedule ), this past January. He’ll be reporting on the cutting-edge research that he heard on-stage and off, and giving us a preview of the types of speakers and content that we’ll be seeing at […]
TASK – February 2011 Monthly Meeting
Speaker 1: Exploiting Open Source Intelligence on the Internet – Jim Mulholland, Security Researcher Jim Mulholland will be discussing his decade long experience as an OSINT researcher and analyst for the Society for Internet Research. As part of that discussion he will be briefly explaining how personal circumstance beginning with the FLQ crisis in 1970, […]
Meeting Location
TASK meets the last Wednesday of Every Month 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm (with a few exceptions). Our next meeting will be a virtual event.
General Information
Toronto's Security User Group TASK - Toronto Area Security Klatch, provides a forum for experts to encourage discussion and share expertise in understanding the latest trends and security threats facing computer networks, systems and data.
Our membership includes Information Security practitioners, managers, network administrators, students, and anyone who is interesting in learning more about securing information.
TASK meets the last Wednesday of each month, and membership is free.
About Us
The Toronto Area Security Klatch is an informal get-together of Information Security professionals (and those who want to be professional) that is held monthly in the Greater Toronto area.
We meet to discuss issues that we all share in common, including:
- New technologies and products that impact information security
- Emerging threats, and the vulnerabilities being exploited
- Managing security
- New laws and regulations
Our mandate is simple: to encourage discussion and share expertise in understanding the latest trends and security threats facing computer networks, systems and data.
We support this mandate by providing a non-biased forum to discuss issues. We do not focus on any particular technology or vendor.
Membership in TASK is free, and we encourage full and active participation. If you have a suggestion on how to improve a meeting or the website, we invite you to share it. In addition, we are always looking for individuals willing to take an active role on the Steering Committee.
Meeting Format
Our meetings are three hours long, and follow the general format of:
- 6:00 - 6:15 Announcements, acknowledgement of our sponsors and general house keeping
- 6:15 - 7:00 First speaker
- 7:00 - 7:15 Q&A
- 7:15 - 7:45 Break
- 7:45 - 8:30 Second speaker
- 8:30 - 8:45 Q&A
- 8:45 - 9:00 Networking and closing remarks
During meetings we ask everyone to turn off the audible alarms on their cell phones, Blackberries, PDAs, and other cool gizmos.
In addition, TASK has adopted a Code of Conduct to help ensure that meetings go smoothly, and that everyone can benefit from the information that is available.
Our Values
Shared Expertise
TASK encourages discussion and facilitates the exchange of knowledge and skills among a wide variety of information security experts
Practitioner-Focused
TASK supports the people who are directly facing information security problems on a daily basis, and are looking to resolve their problems in the most effective manner possible
Non-Partisan
TASK is looking for solutions to common security issues; we do not hold or support a bias for or against any security vendor
