BSides Austin 2017

Thursday, May 4, 2017

• 09:00 - Opening remarks
• 09:30 - KEYNOTE: The Congress, President, and the FCC have all reversed rules limiting ISPs' gathering of data about users: Why does it matter to information security practitioners?
• 10:30 - Forget enumerating a network, hack the SIEM and win the war
• 10:30 - Network IDP device testing methodology
• 10:30 - Detecting malware callouts in realtime network traffic
• 13:00 - Dealing with anxiety in infosec
• 13:00 - An IoT pressure cooker: What could go wrong!?
• 13:00 - Obfuscating the empire: Lessons learned in AV in-memory script scanning
• 14:00 - Phish on
• 14:00 - Local security groups in Austin
• 14:00 - DridexV4: What's under the hood?
• 15:00 - Put up a CryptoWall and Locky the key: Stopping the explosion of ransomware
• 15:00 - Architecting for security in the cloud
• 15:00 - Bro to Python
• 16:00 - Breadcrumbs to loafs: How tidbits of information lead us to full-scale compromises
• 16:00 - Detecting web shells in compromised perimeter assets using ML algorithms
• 16:00 - Hardening WP with Changehat
• 17:00 - Monitor all the cloud things: Security monitoring for everyone
• 17:00 - Blackhats break DNS and so can you.
• 17:00 - Demystifying nation state hackers
• 18:00 - Fire Marshall talks @ Sherlock's Pub

Friday, May 5, 2017

• 09:30 - KEYNOTE: The new cyber war: Hunting season never ends
• 10:30 - Defending against ransomware: You already have the capability, why are we not using it? This method stopped our attacks cold. Now let me show you how to do it. And it’s FREE, you don’t have to purchase anything.
• 10:30 - OpenBSD and the security diaspora
• 10:30 - DevOps and security: Lessons learned from Detroit to Deming
• 13:00 - Removing haystacks to find needles: Playing to our strengths
• 13:00 - My life with Mirai
• 13:00 - Fortune 100 infosec on a state government budget
• 14:00 - Metasploitable3: An open-source, on-demand vulnerable network
• 14:00 - 'Humans, right?' Soft skills and security
• 14:00 - Using community detection algorithms to reduce cybersecurity threats
• 15:00 - Beyond Submitting Your Bug Bounty Report
• 15:00 - What hackers, slackers, crackers, and STackers can teach us about success: A framework for promoting the right innovations for cyberdefense
• 15:00 - It's 2017: Are my credit card swipes any safer?
• 16:00 - Biometric authentication: How can you measure the strength?
• 17:00 - Wrap-up and prizes

• Aaron McBee
• Ariel Robinson
• Austin Osborne
• Ben Actis
• Bradley Duncan
• Brandon Arvanaghi
• Brent Cook
• Brian O'Neill
• Brian Wylie
• Chuck McAuley
• Clare Nelson
• Derek Weeks
• Domenic Puzio
• Duncan Godfrey
• Eric Capuano
• Erich Kron
• Erika Mendoza
• Ernest "Cozy Panda" Wong
• Garett Montgomery
• Hayder Sharhan
• Jack McKenna
• James Barnett
• Jay Yaneza
• John Grigg
• Joseph Zadeh
• Josh Sokol
• Larry Moore
• Martin (MrPhantom) Brough
• Matt Pardo
• Michael Gough
• Mike Sconzo
• Monica Jain
• Nick Mckenna
• Philip Doty
• Randell Casey
• Rod Soto
• Ryan Cobb
• Wei Chen
• Will West