CanSecWest, the world's most advanced conference focusing on applied digital security, is about bringing the industry luminaries together in a relaxed environment which promotes collaboration and social networking. The conference lasts for three days and features a single track of thought provoking presentations, each prepared by an experienced professional and talented educator who is at the cutting edge of his or her field. We give preference to new and innovative material, highlighting important, emergent technologies, techniques, or best industry practices.

Over the last two years we’ve brought Amsterdam a quad track conference with some of the leading experts from around the world and 2012 will be no different except we’re moving to a new and better venue! Our new home for HITB2012AMS will be the Okura Amsterdam, a 5 star business class hotel in the heart of Amsterdam with easy access via tram, bus or train.

2012 will also see the introduction of a brand new attack and defense Capture the Flag game run as always by the HITB.nl CTF crew. “Capture the Flag Bank0verflow” will also for the very first time combine forces with the OWASP Netherlands team (OWASP.NL)! In addition to the all new Capture the Flag, we’re also adding in a CommSec village – an area aiming to bring together not only the various Benelux hackerspaces, but also participation from the open source communities (Ubuntu, OWASP, Mozilla, Gentoo etc). Members of TOOOL Netherlands will as always also be on hand with their latest lock picking kungf00!