Founder of Adversary Village
Abhijith B R, also known by the pseudonym Abx, has more than a decade of experience in the offensive cyber security industry, serves as the Director of BreachSimRange, and Founder of Adversary Village.
He is a professional hacker, offensive cyber security specialist, red team consultant, security researcher, trainer and public speaker.
Currently, he is building BreachSimRange.io as the Founder and Director and is involved with multiple organizations as a consulting specialist to help them build offensive cyber security operations programs, improve their current security posture, assess cyber defense systems, and bridge the gap between business leadership and security professionals.
In the past, he led the offensive security team at Envestnet, Inc., held the position of Deputy Manager - Cyber Security at Nissan Motor Corporation, and prior to that, he worked as a Senior Security Analyst at EY.
As the founder of Adversary Village (https://adversaryvillage.org/), Abhijith spearheads a community initiative focused on adversary simulation, adversary-tactics, purple teaming, threat actor/ransomware research-emulation, and offensive cyber security. Adversary Village is part of DEF CON Villages and organizes hacking villages at prominent events such as the DEF CON Hacking Conference, RSA Conference etc.
Abx also acts as the Lead of an official DEF CON Group named DC0471. He is actively involved in leading the Tactical Adversary project (https://tacticaladversary.io/), a personal initiative that centers around offensive cyber security, adversary attack simulation and red teaming tradecraft.
Abhijith has spoken and delivered trainings at various hacking and cyber security conferences such as, DEF CON hacker convention - Las Vegas, RSA Conference - San Francisco, The Diana Initiative - Las Vegas, DEF CON 28 safemode - DCG Village, Opensource India, Security BSides Las Vegas, BSides San Francisco, BSides Tampa, Hack Space Con - Kennedy space center Florida, Nullcon - Goa, c0c0n - Kerala, BSides Delhi, DEF CON Bahrain, DEF CON Singapore etc.
14:00-14:45 PDT | Friday, Aug 7th 2026 | DEF CON Creator Stage 3, Las Vegas Convention Center Panel Discussion
Six years ago, Adversary Village started as a simple idea, give the people who study adversaries and adversarial tradecraft a place to call home. What grew out of it was something bigger than any of us expected. A community of offensive security professionals, adversary simulation and emulation specialists, threat researchers, tool builders, philosophers and the endlessly curious, all showing up to share what they know about thinking and acting like the adversary. Year after year the Village has been the place to dig into real adversary tradecraft, offensive TTPs, simulation and emulation techniques, hands-on labs, and the tools that make it all work. This panel looks back at how far we have come and forward at where we are headed. Adversaries never stop evolving, from state-sponsored operators running long, patient campaigns to ransomware crews and everyone in between, and neither can we. We will talk about how the Village has kept pace in a realm that reinvents itself every year, how the craft of adversary simulation and emulation has matured into a discipline of its own, and why faithfully replicating real adversary tradecraft has become essential to testing whether our defenses actually work.
We will get into why keeping up is a job no single person or team can do alone, and how a community that trades knowledge freely ends up being the sharpest edge we have got. Most of all, we will celebrate the people who built this, the volunteers, the speakers, the first timers who became regulars. Six years in one thing is clearer than ever! It takes a village to keep up with the adversaries, whether they are nation-state actors, criminal groups, or threats we have not even named yet. Come raise a glass with us and help shape what the next six years look like.
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