While traveling around the country to various conferences, through a mix of observation, participation, and attendance of many talks it became quite clear a gap within the information security industry currently exists. When it comes to these industry standard conferences and gatherings, the information sharing network for red team and offense research and activities was very mature while those for blue team and defense are lacking.
There are a multitude of industry standard offerings ranging from small regional meetups to the much larger well-known conferences held at summer camp in Las Vegas.