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2018 Presentations

Keynote

We are excited to announce Rebekah Brown (@PDXbek) will be our keynote speaker. The title of her talk is "Finding methods in the magic: Solving complex problems with complex thinking"

Rebekah Brown has spent more than a decade working in intelligence and information security; her previous roles include NSA network warfare analyst and Operations Chief of a United States Marine Corps cyber unit. She has helped develop threat intelligence and security awareness programs at the federal, state, and local level, as well as at a Fortune 500 company. Today, Rebekah leads the threat intelligence programs at Rapid7, where her responsibilities include programs architecture, management, analysis, and operations. She is the co-author of the book "Intelligence-Driven Incident Response", and co-author and instructor for SANS578 - Cyber Threat Intelligence. Rebekah recently made the move from Portland, OR to Bellevue, Washington (although you'd never know from her Twitter handle) with her three kids and spends her free time hiking and hacking and reading Harry Potter.

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Schedule

Planners

• Big Kahuna:  Josh M (@nerd_monkey)

• Right Hand of Chaos: Mike Andrews

• Left Hand of Order: Lea Snyder (@_leisures)

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Offensive Defense

Cyber-criminals have had back-end infrastructures equivalent to Virus Total to test if malware and exploits are effective against AV scanners for many years, thus showing that attackers are proactively avoiding detection when building malware. In this day of age malicious binaries are generated on demand by server-side kits when a victim visits a malicious web page, making reliance solely on hash based solutions inadequate. In the last 15 years detection techniques have evolved in an attempt to keep up with attack trends. In the last few years security companies have looked for supplemental solutions such as the use of machine learning to detect and mitigate attacks against cyber criminals. Let's not pretend attackers can't bypass each and every detection technique currently deployed. Join me as I present and review current detection methods found in most host and network security solutions found today. We will re-review the defense in depth strategy while keeping in mind that a solid security strategy consists of forcing an attacker to spend as much time and effort while needing to know a variety of skills and technologies in order to successfully pull off the attack. In the end I hope to convince you that thinking defensively requires thinking offensively.