FACTION

Presented at DEF CON 32 (2024), Aug. 10, 2024, noon (105 minutes).

FACTION is an all-encompassing solution for streamlined security assessment workflows and enhancing collaboration within your teams. In addition, It's fully open source and extendable so it can integrate within diverse environments. FACTION's key benefits are that it cuts reporting time down to more than half for manual pen-tests, keeps tabs on all outstanding vulnerabilities with custom alerts based on your SLAs, becomes the hub of shared information for your assessments enabling other teammates to replay attacks you share, facilitates large scale assessment scheduling that typically becomes hard to manage when your teams are doing more than 100 assessments a year, and is fully extendable with REST APIs and FACTION Extensions.

Presenters:

  • Josh Summitt - Founder at Faction Security
    With over 18 years of experience in application security, Josh has played diverse roles—from being a penetration tester and reverse engineer to serving as a full-stack developer and CTO of a cybersecurity startup. He founded Faction Security, an organization committed to hosting open-source tools with the goal of supporting security teams by providing resources that enhance collaboration and efficiency. In addition to making open-source security tools, Josh builds custom modular synths and generally enjoys making strange and unusual noise-making devices.