Def Con With an average of 30,000 attendees per year at the DEF CON security conference in Las Vegas, it's safe to assume that at least one or two hackers in attendance have the necessary insights to secure critical infrastructure. Now, a new initiative called "Franklin" hopes to capture some of that infosec pro expertise in a policy-friendly format.
DEF CON 32 – Jake Braun – DEF CON Franklin Project
Project Franklin, which was launched at this year's DEF CON event over the weekend, has two goals. First, the initiative expects to publish an annual "Hacker's Almanack" of critical infrastructure-related security issues discovered at the conference, through which it hopes to give hackers a place in national security and foreign policy debates.
Although the format of the Almanac has not yet been decided, Franklin Chairman Jake Braun told The Register that the report is designed to mimic the success of the annual dossier published by DEF CON's Voice Village on its most critical findings.
That report has contributed to increased election security, and Braun expects the Franklin Almanack (named after America's founding father Benjamin Franklin's annual Poor Richard's Almanac) to have the same level of success in informing proper information security policies in the United States and beyond.
