Blue Team Con 2024 Schedule

9:00am to 9:30am

Opening Ceremonies with Blue Team Con Advisory Board

9:35am to 10:20am

Keynote: “How to be a Responsible Consumer of Open Source Software” with Aeva Black

11:00am to 11:50am

“Defense-in-Depth Engineering” with John Poulin

12:00pm to 12:50pm

“Dennis, this is the big one.” with Patrick Scherrer

2:00pm to 2:50pm

“Securing Your Azure Cloud – Adventures in Cloud Hacking” with Edwin David

3:00pm to 3:50pm

“Team-Up Tactics: GRC Powers Up Offensive Cybersecurity” with Darryl MacLeod

4:00pm to 4:50pm

“EMS and IR Professionals Have a Lot More in Common Than Just a Bunch of Acronyms” with Emily Skaggs

5:00pm to 5:50pm

“The Fault in Our Metrics: Rethinking How We Measure Detection & Response” with Allyn Stott

10:30am to 10:55am

“Building on CVSS, EPSS, and KEV: A practical approach to vulnerability prioritization” with Omer Tal

11:30am to 11:55am

“Look around and find out – How to use OSINT to Protect your OT/ICS environment” with Wesley Lee

12:00pm to 12:25pm

“Operationalizing AI for Network/SOC Analysts” with Chris Roffe

12:30pm to 12:55pm

“SQL Injection: A History’ OR 1=1; –“ with Will McCardell

2:00pm to 2:25pm

“Cloud Kleptos: Lessons Learned Responding to Scattered Spider” with Abian Morina

2:30pm to 2:55pm

“Cracking the Security Coding Round: A Paradigm Shift for AppSec Engineer Hiring” with Sairam Kunapareddy

3:00pm to 3:25pm

“How did we get Here: The Key to Managing Employees with Non-Traditional Backgrounds” with Katherine Jackson

3:30pm to 3:55pm

“Like a Hurricane: The Life and Times of Privileged Access Management” with Aria Langer

4:00pm to 4:25pm

“Building Stronger Cyber Defenses for Major Data Stewards: SMBs and MSPs” with Amanda Berlin

4:30pm to 4:55pm

“Wait…Are you really hunting threats?” with Nathalie Cornejo

5:00pm to 5:25pm

“Undocumented Hacking” with José A. Martinez Castro

9:00pm to 1:00am

Networking Event and Party
DJ cillic
Drinks (Drink Tickets Required) and Food
Technology Art by School Art Institute of Chicago

6:45pm to 8:15pm

Hacker Charlatan Gameshow

9:00pm to 1:00am

Board and Card Games
Mocktails (Drink Tickets Required) and Food
*No Alcohol Allowed*

10:00am to 10:50am

“Death by a thousand control planes: The reality of modern privileged access” with Eric Woodruff

11:00am to 11:50am

“The Secret Life of Forgotten Malware C2 (I think I found a new hobby)” with Eli Woodward

1:00pm to 1:50pm

“Maturing Sec-Ops with Detection as Code” with David French and Wade Wells

2:00pm to 2:50pm

“Taking the Human Element to the MAX” with Alyssa Miller

3:30pm to 4:30pm

10:00am to 10:25am

“Illuminating Azure: Navigating Log Complexities with a Novel Key” with Nathan Eades

10:30am to 10:55am

“Website Fingerprinting: Predicting User Behavior Based on Encrypted Metadata Using Machine Learning” with Josh Honig and Nathan Ferrell

11:00am to 11:25am

“Data to Defense: Shaping Tomorrow’s Cybersecurity Analysts with AI” with Maya Omere and Tawon Saetang (Jibby)

11:30am to 11:55am

1:00pm to 1:25pm

“EHLO World: Living Off The Land in the Email Domain” with Josh Kamdjou

1:30pm to 1:55pm

“Combining OSINT and SIGINT to Enumerate IRL Threat Actors” with Benjamin Speckien

2:00pm to 2:25pm

“Security In An IaC Defined World” with Dwayne McDaniel

2:30pm to 2:55pm

“Excel-lence in Cybersecurity: Unveiling the Hidden Powers of Spreadsheets” with Emma Doyley