Adversary Village is a community initiative focused on adversary simulation/emulation, purple teaming, and adversary tradecraft. The village covers a wide range of topics, including offensive cyber security, threat/APT/ransomware emulation, breach and adversarial attack simulation, adversary tactics, research on nation-state-sponsored threat-actors, adversary intelligence, adversarial mindset and hacker survival skills.
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Schedule for the hands-on workshops and other sessions to be hosted in the Adversary Village workshop stage!
Adversary Village opening keynote
William Thomas | Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor at Team Cymru
Connor Jackson | Senior Consultant at Security Risk Advisors
Paul McCarty | Founder and lead researcher at OpenSourceMalware, the software supply chain threat intelligence platform. Software supply chain offensive security crazy person.
Adversary Village opening keynote
William Thomas | Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor at Team Cymru
Connor Jackson | Senior Consultant at Security Risk Advisors
Paul McCarty | Founder and lead researcher at OpenSourceMalware, the software supply chain threat intelligence platform. Software supply chain offensive security crazy person.
Michael Chan | Senior Offensive Security Consultant @ KPMG Canada
Filipi Pires | Head of Technical Advocacy at Cross-Intel
Zhassulan Zhussupov | Malware Researcher, Threat Hunter at ANY.RUN
Michael Chan | Senior Offensive Security Consultant @ KPMG Canada
Filipi Pires | Head of Technical Advocacy at Cross-Intel
Zhassulan Zhussupov | Malware Researcher, Threat Hunter at ANY.RUN
Michael Ortiz | Red Team Engineer
Michael Ortiz | Red Team Engineer
Adversary Village talks and panels discussions will be hosted in the DEF CON Creator Stages. Don't forget to use the Hacker Tracker app to stay on top of the schedule. Mark your calendars. Don't miss a single session!
Schedule for the Adversary Village Technical talks and Panel discussions happening in the DEF CON Creator Stages.
Adversary Village will be hosting a few cool hands-on activities for the participants to come and play with. Here is a detailed list of hands-on hacking sessions. Let's hack the planet!
Schedule for the Adversary Village Hands-on hacking activity area.
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Guided breach and offensive attack simulation hands-on exercises
Trey Bilbrey | Head of SCYTHE Labs
A. Stryker | Director of Threat Analysis at Fable Security
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Guided breach and offensive attack simulation hands-on exercises
Trey Bilbrey | Head of SCYTHE Labs
A. Stryker | Director of Threat Analysis at Fable Security
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Guided breach and offensive attack simulation hands-on exercises
Gregory Carpenter, DrPH | Principal Partner of CW PENSEC
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Guided breach and offensive attack simulation hands-on exercises
Gregory Carpenter, DrPH | Principal Partner of CW PENSEC
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Adversary Village will be hosting a series of adversary tool demos for the participants to explore and interact with. Here is a detailed list of the tool demo sessions. Let's hack the planet!
Schedule for the Adversary Village Adversary Tool demos.
Adam Toscher | Security Researcher at Cobalt
Jordan Bonagura | Senior Security Consultant and Researcher at Secure Ideas
Renze Jongman | Founder of Liberty91
Adam Toscher | Security Researcher at Cobalt
Jordan Bonagura | Senior Security Consultant and Researcher at Secure Ideas
Renze Jongman | Founder of Liberty91
Redon Gashi | Managing Security Consultant - Sentry Cybersecurity
Dhruva Goyal | Founder, BugBase Security
Duane Dunston | Cybersecurity Training for Everyone
Redon Gashi | Managing Security Consultant - Sentry Cybersecurity
Dhruva Goyal | Founder, BugBase Security
Duane Dunston | Cybersecurity Training for Everyone
Jared Dobbelaer | Adversarial Engineer at Blackbaud
Jared Dobbelaer | Adversarial Engineer at Blackbaud
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OffSec is a leading cyber security training and certification company known for its hands-on, adversarial approach to developing world-class offensive security professionals.
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Security Risk Advisors (SRA) provides specialized security services including Penetration Testing, VECTRâ„¢ Purple Teams, Cloud Security, Resilience, Cyber Physical Systems Security, Engineering, and 24x7x365 Cybersecurity Operations. SRA's mission is to "Level Up" every day to protect our clients and their customers. We deliver our security services to Fortune and Global 1000 companies, innovating technology startups, and mission-oriented non-profits.
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Cobalt Strike is the industry-standard adversary simulation platform trusted by red teams worldwide for conducting advanced security assessments and threat emulation exercises. Founded by Raphael Mudge in 2012, Cobalt Strike pioneered the modern red team command and control framework, enabling security professionals to replicate advanced persistent threat behaviors and strengthen organizational defenses through realistic attack simulations.
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