Presented at
Wild West Hackin' Fest 2017,
Oct. 28, 2017, 9:50 a.m.
(45 minutes)
In the last 12 months, Ed Skoudis has been on a tear adding new automation features to his office. Some are practical, others are whimsical and weird. All of them provided valuable learning opportunities that Ed would love to share. This talk will describe some of the new technologies he’s been experimenting with and the lessons he’s learned, including:
- Alexa versus Siri: Development tips for each environment and how to make them work together
- Amazon Voice Services: High-quality, real-time, cloud-based voice synthesis for free
- The Raspberry Pi Zero as a development platform
- The Intel NUC as a development platform
- Integrating animatronic toys into your ecosystem: How creepy is too creepy?
- Do’s and don’ts of home Tesla coils, Geissler tubes, and other high-voltage apparatus
- Tips for keeping your mind fresh with new dev projects
- Security implications of all of this stuff
- Where is this all headed? When does Skynet reveal its big plan?
This lively talk will cover a lot of ground, but also include specific, practical advice for keeping your technical skills sharp while having fun.
Presenters:
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Ed Skoudis
- Counter Hack
Ed Skoudis has taught cyber incident response and advanced penetration testing techniques to more than 12,000 cyber security professionals. He is a SANS Faculty Fellow and the lead for the SANS Penetration Testing Curriculum. His courses distil the essence of real-world, front-line case studies he accumulates because he is consistently one of the first experts brought in to provide after-attack analysis on major breaches where credit card and other sensitive financial data is lost.
Ed led the team that built NetWars, the low-cost, widely used cyber training and skills assessment ranges relied upon by military units and corporations with major assets at risk. His team also built CyberCity, the fully authentic urban cyber warfare simulator that was featured on the front page of the Washington Post. He was also the expert called in by the White House to test the security viability of the Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) that now protects US Government networks and lead the team that first publicly demonstrated significant security flaws in virtual machine technology. He has a rare capability of translating advanced technical knowledge into easy-to-master guidance as the popularity of his step-by-step Counter Hack books testifies.
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