INTERNET WARS 2022: These wars aren't just virtual

Presented at DEF CON 30 (2022), Aug. 13, 2022, 1:50 p.m. (110 minutes)

It's been a long 12 years since the last time an Internet Wars panel was held at DEF CON, in that time a lot has changed, and a lot has not. This panel will bring together representatives from multiple industries and with a breadth of experiences discuss current trends and topics in internet security and the way those are playing out in both the cyber and the physical realm.

This discussion will start with an introductory presentation on some of the latest trends in digital security, threat intel, disinformation, and APTs. Further we will be discussing how cyber threats are being weaponized in the Russian attacks on Ukraine. From there we'll move into questions and answers from the audience. Panelists will accept questions on any subject related to the threat landscape, IoT and ICS threats, internet warfare and will discuss what we expect is coming and how we, as an industry, can best deal with it.


Presenters:

  • Cheryl Biswas / 3ncr1pt3d as Cheryl Biswall
    Cheryl Biswas is a strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist at a major bank, a founder of The Diana Initiative and was featured in “Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World.”
  • Bryson Bort
    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. He is a Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, the National Security Institute, and an Advisor to the Army Cyber Institute. As a U.S. Army Officer, he served as a Battle Captain and Brigade Engineering Officer in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom before leaving the Army as a Captain. He was recognized as one of the Top 50 in Cyber in 2020 by Business Insider. Bryson received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with honors from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He holds a Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Management from the University of Maryland, a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Florida, and completed graduate studies in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas.
  • Jivesx
    Jivesx is a 20 year veteran of network security, forensics and privacy in open higher ed environments. In his free time he tries to support the infosec community by volunteering, organizing, or just being a pest at multiple cons and villages.
  • Chris Kubecka
    CEO of cyber warfare incident management company in The Netherlands and Distinguished Chair for a Cyber Security program in the US Program. Advises the multiple governments, militaries, television and documentary technical advisor as a subject matter expert on cyber warfare national defense. Author of OSINT books and USAF military combat veteran, former military aircrew, and USAF Space Command. Defends critical infrastructure and handles country level cyber incidents, cyberwarfare, and cyber espionage. Lives and breathes IT/IOT/ICS SCADA control systems security. Hacker since the age of 10 and was in Kiev when the war started.
  • Harri Hursti
    Harri Hursti is a founder of Nordic Innovation Labs and the Voter Village. His work has been featured in two HBO documentaries, the latest being "Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections."
  • Gadi Evron
    Gadi Evron is the Innovation Domain Lead at Citi and co-wrote the post-mortem for “the first Internet war”, in Estonia (2007).
  • Russell Handorf as Russ Handorf
    Dr. Russell Handorf currently is an agent of chaos at Twitter. He is also recovering fed after ten years of service defending the USA and other countries in a variety of matters. He’s done a lot of other odd things here and there, but that isn’t important. Let’s just have a conversation, but you’ll have to endure my dad jokes.

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