The Security Bloggers Network is proud to announce that we have formed an alliance with the folks at Black Hat. As part of the alliance, the SBN (with almost a 150 blogs and over 50,000 combined subscribers) is now the official bloggers network for Black Hat!  To the left is the new logo that member sites can display between now and the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, August 2-7, 2008.

Besides just the name and logo change, we have some other cool joint activities planned with the Black Hat folks.  Starting shortly we are going to pick a Black Hat topic of the week, based upon a briefing scheduled for Black Hat and we are going to ask the SBN members to blog on that topic.  With over 150 blogs, we should cover these topics from many different angles.  It should also create some buzz around the various briefings. 

We will also be participating in the twitter feeds leading up and at the show.  Other activities are currently being finalized and will be announced shortly.  Just so everyone knows, I didn't personally do all of this myself.  As usual Jennifer Leggio from Mediaphyter blog and Fortinet was invaluable in getting this done. Sonya Caprio of StillSecure and also Rich Mogul and Martin McKeay helped out and chimed in, as well as Amrit Williams.  As Rich Mogul said, "we are all going to blog about Black Hat anyway, why not make it official".  No word yet on a bloggers get together for Black Hat and if anything comes up, we will keep you posted.

If any members of the SBN have an issue about our new affiliation please write to me at podcast@stillsecure.com.  I would like to hear from you.  Along with our alliance with RSA, this is helping make the Security Bloggers Network, "the bloggers network" of record for the major security events.  If anyone who is blogging security would like to join, please send me an email.  Also, if there are any other events that you think make sense for the SBN to associate with we are open to suggestions. 

So now all of you bloggers out there, on your mark, get set, blog!