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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: From threat-intel to tested defense\, the adversary 
 simulation\n   playbook\n   Tags: Adversary Village | Creator Talk/Panel\n
    When: Friday\, Aug 7\, 13:15 - 13:59 PDT\n   Where: LVCCW Level 1 Hall 
 3 1105 (Creator Stage 3) - [1]Map\n\n   Description:\n\n   Knowing who is 
 coming for you is only half the fight. The real work is\n   turning that k
 nowledge into defenses that actually works. This panel\n   walks through t
 he full playbook\, from raw threat intelligence on\n   state-sponsored act
 ors and other adversaries\, to emulating their\n   tradecraft\, to validat
 ing whether your defenses can really stand up to\n   it. Our panelists bri
 ng hands-on experience across adversary\n   simulation\, threat intel\, an
 d purple teaming to talk about what it\n   takes to move from a report on 
 paper to a tested\, measurable defensive\n   posture. The panel will dig i
 nto how to prioritize the threats that\n   matter to your organization\, h
 ow to faithfully replicate real\n   adversary behavior instead of chasing 
 generic checklists\, and how red\n   and blue working side by side turns e
 very simulated attack into a\n   lasting defensive victory. Whether you ar
 e defending against\n   nation-state operators or opportunistic criminals\
 , the goal is the\n   same! Stop guessing about your defenses and start pr
 oving them. Join\n   us for a practical conversation about closing the gap
  between\n   intelligence and action.\n\n   Speakers:Cheryl Biswas\,Adam P
 ennington\,Olaf Hartong\,Sarah Hume\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Cheryl Biswas\, Str
 ategic Threat Intel Analyst at TD Bank\n\n   Cheryl Biswas is a Strategic 
 Threat Intel Analyst with TD bank in\n   Toronto\, Canada. She found her w
 ay into InfoSec through a helpdesk\n   backdoor and pivoted into roles for
  vendor and change management\,\n   jumped a gap into privacy and DR/BCP\,
  then laterally moved into\n   security audits and assessments. Her degree
  in Political Science has\n   evolved into researching APTs\, botnets\, ra
 nsomware and more. Cheryl is\n   actively involved in the security communi
 ty as a conference speaker\n   and volunteer\, mentors those entering the 
 field\, and encourages women\n   and diversity in Infosec as a founding me
 mber of the "The Diana\n   Initiative."\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Adam Pennington
 \, ATT&CK lead at MITRE Corporation\n\n   Adam Pennington leads ATT&CK at 
 The MITRE Corporation and collected\n   much of the intelligence leveraged
  in creating ATT&CK’s initial\n   techniques. He has spent much of his 1
 6 years with MITRE studying and\n   preaching the use of deception for int
 elligence gathering. Prior to\n   joining MITRE\, Adam was a researcher at
  Carnegie Mellon's Parallel\n   Data Lab and earned his BS and MS degrees 
 in Computer Science and\n   Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carne
 gie Mellon University.\n   Adam has presented and published in several ven
 ues including FIRST\n   CTI\, USENIX Security\, DEF CON\, and ACM Transact
 ions on Information and\n   System Security.\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Olaf Harto
 ng\, Defensive Specialist at FalconForce\n\n   Olaf Hartong is a Defensive
  Specialist and security researcher at\n   FalconForce. He specialises in 
 understanding the attacker tradecraft\n   and thereby improving detection.
  He has a varied background in blue\n   and purple team operations\, netwo
 rk engineering\, and security\n   transformation projects. Olaf has presen
 ted at many industry\n   conferences including Black Hat\, DEF CON\, Derby
 Con\, Splunk .conf\,\n   FIRST\, MITRE ATT&CKcon\, and various other confe
 rences. Olaf is the\n   author of various tools including ThreatHunting fo
 r Splunk\,\n   ATTACKdatamap and Sysmon-modular. He maintains a blog at\n 
   https://olafhartong.nl\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Sarah Hume\, Purple Team Servi
 ce Lead at Security Risk\n   Advisors\n\n   Sarah leads the Purple Team se
 rvice at Security Risk Advisors (SRA).\n   She has led hundreds of Threat 
 Intelligence-based Purple Team\n   exercises for organizations in the Fort
 une 500 and Global 1000 over\n   the past 7 years. Her background is in of
 fensive security\, primarily\n   internal network\, OT/ICS\, and physical 
 security penetration testing.\n   Sarah also has experience in external ne
 twork penetration testing\, web\n   application assessments\, OSINT\, phis
 hing/vishing campaigns\,\n   vulnerability management\, and cloud assessme
 nts. Sarah graduated Summa\n   Cum Laude from Penn State with a B.S. in Cy
 bersecurity. She is a\n   Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO)\, Certified I
 nformation Systems\n   Security Professional (CISSP)\, Google Digital Clou
 d Leader\, AWS\n   Certified Cloud Practitioner\, and Advanced Infrastruct
 ure Hacking\n   Certified. She lives in Philadelphia with her dog\, Paxton
 .\n\n   '\n\n   1. #LVCCW_Level1_Hall3\n\n\n
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LOCATION:Adversary Village - LVCCW Level 1 Hall 3 1105 (Creator Stage 3)
SUMMARY:From threat-intel to tested defense\, the adversary simulation play
 book
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