Hands-On Village

Saturday from 10:30am to 6:00pm CDT

• We’ll be accepting books published within the past 7 years as long as they’re still relevant to the security industry.

• We’ll also accept security-adjacent books, coding books, and textbooks as long as they’re applicable to modern cloud environments. (We know you love your Perl and COBOL books, so we encourage you to hang on to those!)

• Drop off a book or two to swap or donate at the Book Swap table in the Hands-On-Village on Saturday between 10am and 2pm and receive a Blue Star ticket. Swing by the booth between 2pm on Saturday and noon on Sunday to “shop” for another book with your ticket.

• If you are not a student, we ask that you hold off your shopping excursion until after 3pm Saturday so that students will have first crack to swap their books, then the booth will open for all.

• After noon on Sunday, we will not take any new donations and all ‘shopping’ will be free—no ticket required.

Sunday from 10:00am to 3:00pm CDT

The Hands-On Village is a location where labs and interactive activities will take place. The goal of this village is to allow attendees to get hands-on experience with numerous technologies, processes, or useful activities.

Vulcan Cyber: Gain hands-on experience prioritizing vulnerability risk by interacting with Vulcan Cyber researchers from the Voyager18 team. Learn best practices for contextualizing and mitigating vulnerability risk. Get hands-on to community tools developed by Vulcan Cyber, including VulnRX, the largest, curated library of vulnerability risk and threat intelligence, and MITRE Mapper, a service that maps prioritized CVEs to relevant remediation tactics and techniques from MITRE ATT&CK.

Trimarc: Trimarc is hosting Identity Security Village. This hands-on experience for all attendees consists of 2 domains with various common misconfigurations. Conference attendees have the opportunity to learn how to defend their networks by emulating an attacker: attempting to hack their way into a Domain Controller as either a Malicious Insider (using compromised window creds on a window 10 machine), or as a red teamer/penetration tester with a Kali machine on the same network. There are several layers of complexity in this environment extending its attack surface in ways that are very common and realistic including, certificate services, VMware environments, Azure Active Directory Sync, etc.

Escape Room: An Escape Room with a twist. Come see to find out!

Book-Swap: This year, we’re introducing the First Annual Blue Team Con Book Swap-O-Rama!

Here’s how it works:

We’re really excited about the opportunity to share some knowledge, swap some books, and save the environment a little bit, too. Any books not claimed or swapped by Sunday at before closing ceremonies will be distributed or donated by Blue Team Con.

We’re looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks, so check your bookshelves and toss a book in your backpack to swap!

Thanks to Bat recommending we bring this event to Blue Team Con!