BSides Buffalo

Offense is red,

Defense is blue,

If you work in either,

A submitter is you!

BSides Buffalo CFP, open through March 31.

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Excited to announce a returning in-kind sponsor for 2026, our friends at Zoom Buffalo! Rory and the team at Zoom have been with us from the very beginning, doing an awesome job printing our posters, flyers, signage, and more! Thanks so much for your support, we really appreciate it!

This year's event posters, brilliant work as always by Katy at Katydidart.

Looks like the weather is going to be cold this weekend - no better time to stay inside, stay warm, and submit your talk to our CFP! Now accepting submissions for four different tracks, we'd love to hear from you!

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We're looking for speakers on general security and technical topics, along with our "Introsec" track aimed at people new to the field and "Hacking Is Art" for the intersection between technology and art.

Can't wait to see your submissions!

Our Call For Presenters (CFP) will be opening in just three days, on January 15! Come share your technical and security expertise with the Western New York community at Buffalo's favorite information security event of the year.

We couldn’t run this event without the support of our sponsors, so thanks so much for making it possible and helping us build up the local technology community. See you in June!

Excited to announce our third Gold Sponsor for our 2026 event, our friends at Cyera! Cyera aims to reinvent how businesses secure data, enable agile collaboration, and boldly pursue new business opportunities through the power of AI-native Data Security Posture Management and Data Loss Prevention.

We couldn’t run this event without the support of our sponsors, so thanks so much for making it possible and helping us build up the local technology community. See you in June!

Optiv works alongside clients to manage cyber risk and equip them with perspectives and programs to accelerate business progress. And they've been with us every year from the very beginning -- thank you so much for your ongoing support, we really appreciate it!

Excited to announce our second Gold Sponsor for our 2026 event, our friends at Optiv!

We couldn’t run this event without the support of our sponsors, so thanks so much for making it possible and helping us build up the local technology community. See you in June!

They've been with us every year from the very beginning -- thank you so much for your ongoing support, we really appreciate it!

Excited to announce our first Gold Sponsor for our 2026 event, our friends at @securityonion.bsky.social! They’re the support and training organization behind Security Onion, the wonderful free and open Enterprise Security Monitoring platform.

Stay warm, Petey, it's a cold one out there today.

We've just published our sponsorship packet for BSides Buffalo 5.0, coming up on June 6 at Canisius University, and we'd love for you to be a part of it! Click here for more information and feel free to reach out for more details.

www.bsidesbuffalo.org/sponsorship/

Professor Farnsworth.

Good news, everyone!

We have an official date for our next event -- the fifth annual BSides Buffalo will be at Canisius University on June 6, 2026! Follow this account and watch this space for our updated sponsorship packet and more details. Hope to see you there!

Infosec 716 October Meetup, Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup NOTE: Rather than being a purely virtual event as we usually have, **this month's meetup will be a hybrid event**. It will still be broadcast on the Infosec 716 Discord ser

Happy October, everyone! A reminder that this month's Infosec 716 meetup will be a hybrid event on the evening of October 15 -- you can either join on Discord or meet us in person in the Tri-Main Building and check out the Bit Haven hacker space. Either way, hope to see you there!

BSides Buffalo sponsorship on a little league softball jersey.

Still our best marketing campaign ever.

A parody of the old Buffalo "we're talking proud" PR campaign logo that says "We're Hacking Proud"

I've finally done it, I've created the Most Buffalo laptop sticker of all time. OF ALL TIME.

The kids are all right.

A little throwback. Feels like yesterday.

#716day

July - Tacos In The Park!, Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup As has now become tradition - for July, let's meet up and eat tacos in the park! This is the week in between the shows for Shakespeare in the Park, so there should be plent

REMINDER: One week from tonight, come hang out with the local cyber folks at our annual Tacos In The Park picnic! All are welcome, just please RSVP so I've got a head count for food. Hope to see you there!

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A blue and white soccer scarf with BSIDES BUFFALO printed on one side and HACK THE PLANET on the other.

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Our very first Speaker's Scarf design from our first event in 2022. We thought they were cool, but did not anticipate how popular these would turn out to be.

Students and job seekers are able to submit a resume in exchange for a free ticket to our event, and then we give those resumes to our sponsors so they can connect with the next generation of cyber talent coming up here in Western New York. This year we had 79 resumes submitted, a new record!

BSides Buffalo Videos from BSides Buffalo, Western New York's favorite community-driven infosec and technology conference.

Thanks to the incredible work by our friends at the Canisius University Media Center, the recordings of this year's talks are now available on our YouTube channel.

www.youtube.com/@bsidesbuffalo