If you would like one of these of your very own, now's your chance! Follow this account, repost this thread, and comment with which of the four designs you would like. We'll randomly select two winners at the end of March and mail you the scarf of your choice along with some stickers and other swag.
Each year is a unique design, and as you would expect from an event born in Buffalo the scarves are toasty warm and very practical for the wintertime.
Four soccer-style scarves with BSIDES BUFFALO woven into them.
GIVEAWAY CONTEST: For those who don't know, these are our Speakers' Scarves - we give these away as a thank you gift every year for the people who volunteer to present at the conference.
ICYMI: Tickets are on sale NOW for Buffalo's favorite hacking conference. Get them while you can, we sold out entirely in 2024 and 2025.
As always, tickets are free for students or job seekers with a submitted resume; we bundle those resumes up and share them with our sponsors. The submission link is on the ticket page, and please be patient, it's a manual process.
See you in June!
Happy Friday, all! A reminder that tickets go on sale for our event on March 1, just two short days from now. Don't miss your chance at a full day of technical talks, swag, lockpicking, soldering, lunch, stickers, CTFs, and general hacker shenanigans for just twenty American dollars.
If you're looking for something to do this fine afternoon to stave off the Sunday Scaries, our CFP is still open and we'd love to see your submission!
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The Rust Belt BSides conference season is underway -- tickets are available now for BSidesROC next month, BSidesDayton in May, and BSidesPGH coming up in July. Tickets for our humble event here in the Nickel City will be available on March 1. Get out there and support your local hacker communities!
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!
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.
