Go to BSides Tampa, because 80% of success is showing up

The 13th edition of BSides Tampa is happening tomorrow, Saturday May 16. It’s not too late to get tickets ($45 for general admission, $30 for students and military), and you can save 20% by using Tampa Devs’ discount code, TampaDevs20_BSIDESTAMPA_2026. There are plenty of reasons to attend BSides Tampa, a cybersecurity conference that brings in 2,000+ attendees, including… Great keynotes and presentations across seven tracks: keynotes, red team, blue team, cloud security, GRC and privacy, appsec, and AI and emerging The exhibitor hall, where they don’t scan your badge, which means that you won’t get spammed as a result and they won’t sell your info Interactive villages: malware, social engineering, IOT, network, lockpicking A chance to meet the technology and cybersecurity professionals in the area, including these two… But the most compelling reason I can think of to go is… Let me repeat that: 80 percent of success is just showing up. Let me illustrate with a story. Last May,…