What do we do?

Adversary Village^™ is a community initiative which purely focuses on Adversary simulation, adversary emulation, threat/APT/ransomware emulation, breach and attack simulation, threat actors, adversary groups, supply chain security, adversary tactics, life, adversary philosophy, urban survival skills and purple teaming.
We have hosted the first edition of Adversary Village, as part of DEF CON Villages virtually at DEF CON 29 hacking and cyber security conference, Las Vegas.

At a diverse range of conferences, we coordinate Villages, technical talks, workshops, live demos, CTF competitions, panel discussions and other hands-on activities.

Our vision
What do we aim for?

The goal of the Adversary Village is to build an open Security community for the researchers and organizations, who are putting together new means, methodologies towards the simulation and emulation of adversary tactics and purple teaming.

Abhijith B R [Abx]

Founder and village lead

Akash [OB]

Communications lead

Adithya

Operations lead and Muscle

Len Noe

Transhuman and Community advocate

Sreehari [Invisible]

Contests and competitions overlord

Sanne Maasakkers

EU lead and Community advocate

VPG

Technical lead

Joel

Operations and Muscle

Jamie Williams

Community advocate and contributor

Ryan Beasley

Community operations

Abhishek [Bugwatch]

CTF Master

Jonathan Baker

Director, Center for Threat-Informed Defense, MITRE

Jon Baker is the founding Director of Research and Development for MITRE Engenuity’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense. In addition to co-founding the Center, he is the Cyber Threat Intelligence and Adversary Emulation Department Manager in The MITRE Corporation. Jon has spent much of the past eighteen years at MITRE.

Anant Shrivastava

Founder and Chief Researcher, Cyfinoid Research

Anant Shrivastava is an information security professional with 12+ yrs of corporate experience. During his career has been a speaker and a trainer at various international conferences (Black Hat -USA, ASIA, EU, Nullcon, c0c0n and many more)

Bryson Bort

Founder and CEO of SCYTHE | GRIMM | Co-Founder of ICS Village

Bryson is the Founder of SCYTHE, a start-up building a next generation attack emulation platform, and GRIMM, a cybersecurity consultancy, and Co-Founder of the ICS Village, a non-profit advancing awareness of industrial control system security.

Vincent Yiu

Offensive security / Red Team Managing Director, SYON Security

‌Vincent is a Director of Red Team Operations. Vincent manages services driven by the adversary mindset and practically executes and demonstrates the impact of security vulnerabilities and attack paths.