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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: Building Project Obsidian: Designing the Blue Team C
 TF for DEF\n   CON\n   Tags: Blue Team Village | Creator Talk/Panel\n   Wh
 en: Friday\, Aug 7\, 14:30 - 15:30 PDT\n   Where: LVCCW Level 2 W217 (Blue
  Team Village) Main Stage - [1]Map\n\n   Description:\n\n   What does it t
 ake to build a realistic blue team training platform for\n   thousands of 
 DEF CON attendees? Join the engineers behind Project\n   Obsidian as we di
 scuss the architecture\, design decisions\, and lessons\n   learned while 
 building a cloud-native incident response and malware\n   analysis CTF. We
 ’ll cover Kubernetes\, automation\, AI-assisted\n   challenge creation\,
  scalable infrastructure\, and the balance between\n   realism and accessi
 bility. Whether you’re interested in CTF design\,\n   defensive security
 \, or modern platform engineering\, this panel offers\n   an inside look a
 t how a community-driven project comes together.\n\n   Speakers:Carlo Anez
  Mazurco\,Chris "dafinga" Maenner\,Omenscan ~\,Paul\n   Goffar\n\n   Speak
 erBio:  Carlo Anez Mazurco\n\n   Carlo Anez Mazurco is a cybersecurity ins
 tructor\, consultant\, and\n   community leader with more than 15 years of
  experience across security\n   operations\, threat intelligence\, inciden
 t response\, threat hunting\,\n   and detection engineering. He is the Fou
 nder of IgniteCyber Academy\, a\n   DEF CON Training instructor\, and an a
 ctive contributor to Blue Team\n   Village\, where he supports Project Obs
 idian and develops hands-on blue\n   team content for the cybersecurity co
 mmunity.\n\n   Carlo specializes in helping defenders translate attacker t
 radecraft\n   into practical detection and response techniques while respo
 nsibly\n   integrating artificial intelligence into modern security operat
 ions.\n   His work focuses on creating realistic labs\, CTF challenges\, a
 nd\n   immersive training environments that prepare students for real-worl
 d\n   investigations using enterprise telemetry\, cloud technologies\, and
 \n   AI-assisted workflows.\n\n   He has delivered training and presentati
 ons for conferences\,\n   universities\, government organizations\, and co
 mmercial teams\, with a\n   passion for mentoring the next generation of c
 ybersecurity\n   professionals. His goal is to make complex security conce
 pts\n   approachable through practical demonstrations\, collaborative lear
 ning\,\n   and hands-on exercises that participants can immediately apply 
 in\n   their own environments.\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Chris "dafinga" Maenner\
 , Board Member at BSides\n   Philadelphia\n\n   Chris Maenner is the found
 er of Palmtree Ventures\, where he spends his\n   time helping startups an
 d enterprises secure AI systems\, Kubernetes\,\n   cloud platforms\, and d
 eveloper tooling without getting in the way of\n   shipping software. Over
  the last 15+ years he’s bounced between\n   startups and Fortune 50 com
 panies building product security\, platform\n   security\, and cloud secur
 ity programs. Outside of work\, Chris helps\n   build CTFs and security pr
 ojects with OWASP and DEF CON’s Blue Team\n   Village (including Project
  Obsidian)\, serves on the board of BSides\n   Philadelphia\, contributes 
 to the OWASP Secure Agent Playbook\, and can\n   usually be found speaking
  about AI security\, Kubernetes\, and whatever\n   cloud-native security p
 roblem is keeping people up at night.\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Omenscan ~\n\n   
 Some people write books to document and share what they learn. I write\n  
  software. @Blueteamvillage Director. I do not speak for my employer\,\n  
  their clients\, or customers\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Paul Goffar\n\n   Paul Go
 ffar is the founder of Raven Cybersecurity\, doing offensive and\n   defen
 sive security consulting for small and mid-sized businesses. Day\n   to da
 y\, he runs incident response\, detection engineering\, digital\n   forens
 ics\, and threat intelligence for an enterprise SOC in the\n   automotive 
 sector.\n\n   For the last five years\, Paul has worked closely with Blue 
 Team\n   Village as an engineering lead for competitions and content deliv
 ery\n   around the US\, and does similar CTF and content work with CTF313\
 , a\n   Detroit-based team. He holds several industry certifications inclu
 ding\n   GCIH\, GMON\, GNFA\, CRTP\, and paWASP. A father of three\, a Met
 ro Detroit\n   native\, and a hacker at heart\, he continuously finds ways
  to give back\n   to the community through mentoring and extensive volunte
 er work.\n\n   '\n\n   1. #LVCCW_Level2_North\n\n\n
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LOCATION:Blue Team Village - LVCCW Level 2 W217 (Blue Team Village) Main St
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SUMMARY:Building Project Obsidian: Designing the Blue Team CTF for DEF CON
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