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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: Adversary Village Kick-off Keynote\n   Tags: Adversa
 ry Village | Creator Talk/Panel\n   When: Friday\, Aug 7\, 10:00 - 10:45 P
 DT\n   Where: LVCCW Level 1 Hall 2 602 (Adversary Village) Workshop Stage 
 -\n   [1]Map\n\n   Description:\n   Speakers:Abhijith B R\,Bryson Bort\,Sa
 nne Maasakkers\,Adam Pennington\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Abhijith B R\, Founder 
 of Adversary Village\n\n   Abhijith B R\, also known by the pseudonym Abx\
 , has more than a decade\n   of experience in the offensive cyber security
  industry\, serves as the\n   Director of BreachSimRange\, and Founder of 
 Adversary Village.\n\n   He is a professional hacker\, offensive cyber sec
 urity specialist\, red\n   team consultant\, security researcher\, trainer
  and public speaker.\n\n   Currently\, he is building BreachSimRange.io as
  the Founder and\n   Director and is involved with multiple organizations 
 as a consulting\n   specialist to help them build offensive cyber security
  operations\n   programs\, improve their current security posture\, assess
  cyber defense\n   systems\, and bridge the gap between business leadershi
 p and security\n   professionals.\n\n   In the past\, he led the offensive
  security team at Envestnet\, Inc.\,\n   held the position of Deputy Manag
 er - Cyber Security at Nissan Motor\n   Corporation\, and prior to that\, 
 he worked as a Senior Security Analyst\n   at EY.\n\n   As the founder of 
 Adversary Village (https://adversaryvillage.org/)\,\n   Abhijith spearhead
 s a community initiative focused on adversary\n   simulation\, adversary-t
 actics\, purple teaming\, threat actor/ransomware\n   research-emulation\,
  and offensive cyber security. Adversary Village is\n   part of DEF CON Vi
 llages and organizes hacking villages at prominent\n   events such as the 
 DEF CON Hacking Conference\, RSA Conference etc.\n\n   Abx also acts as th
 e Lead of an official DEF CON Group named DC0471.\n   He is actively invol
 ved in leading the Tactical Adversary project\n   (https://tacticaladversa
 ry.io/)\, a personal initiative that centers\n   around offensive cyber se
 curity\, adversary attack simulation and red\n   teaming tradecraft.\n\n  
  Abhijith has spoken and delivered trainings at various hacking and\n   cy
 ber security conferences such as\, DEF CON hacker convention - Las\n   Veg
 as\, RSA Conference - San Francisco\, The Diana Initiative - Las\n   Vegas
 \, DEF CON 28 safemode - DCG Village\, Opensource India\, Security\n   BSi
 des Las Vegas\, BSides San Francisco\, BSides Tampa\, Hack Space Con -\n  
  Kennedy space center Florida\, Nullcon - Goa\, c0c0n - Kerala\, BSides\n 
   Delhi\, DEF CON Bahrain\, DEF CON Singapore etc.\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Brys
 on Bort\, Founder and CEO at SCYTHE\n\n   Bryson is the Founder of SCYTHE\
 , a start-up building a next generation\n   attack emulation platform\, an
 d GRIMM\, a cybersecurity consultancy\, and\n   Co-Founder of the ICS Vill
 age\, a non-profit advancing awareness of\n   industrial control system se
 curity. He is a Senior Fellow with the\n   Atlantic Council's Cyber Statec
 raft Initiative\, the National Security\n   Institute\, and an Advisor to 
 the Army Cyber Institute. As a U.S. Army\n   Officer\, he served as a Batt
 le Captain and Brigade Engineering Officer\n   in support of Operation Ira
 qi Freedom before leaving the Army as a\n   Captain. He was recognized as 
 one of the Top 50 in Cyber in 2020 by\n   Business Insider. Bryson receive
 d his Bachelor of Science in Computer\n   Science with honors from the Uni
 ted States Military Academy at West\n   Point. He holds a Master's Degree 
 in Telecommunications Management\n   from the University of Maryland\, a M
 aster's in Business Administration\n   from the University of Florida\, an
 d completed graduate studies in\n   Electrical Engineering and Computer Sc
 ience at the University of\n   Texas.\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Sanne Maasakkers\
 , Threat intel at Mandiant (Google)\n\n   Sanne Maasakkers is working for 
 Threat intel at Mandiant\, previously\n   at NCSC-NL. After spending some 
 years in offensive security\, she now\n   uses this knowledge to make Dutc
 h vital infrastructure more resilient.\n   She is mainly interested in res
 earching social engineering tactics and\n   techniques of the bigger APTs 
 and presented 'Phish like an APT' at the\n   digital version of Adversary 
 Village. Additionally\, she likes to host\n   CTFs for young talents\, coa
 ch the European CTF team\, and host\n   awareness sessions.\n\n   SpeakerB
 io:  Adam Pennington\, ATT&CK lead at MITRE Corporation\n\n   Adam Penning
 ton leads ATT&CK at The MITRE Corporation and collected\n   much of the in
 telligence leveraged in creating ATT&CK’s initial\n   techniques. He has
  spent much of his 16 years with MITRE studying and\n   preaching the use 
 of deception for intelligence gathering. Prior to\n   joining MITRE\, Adam
  was a researcher at Carnegie Mellon's Parallel\n   Data Lab and earned hi
 s BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and\n   Electrical and Computer En
 gineering from Carnegie Mellon University.\n   Adam has presented and publ
 ished in several venues including FIRST\n   CTI\, USENIX Security\, DEF CO
 N\, and ACM Transactions on Information and\n   System Security.\n\n   Lin
 ks:\n       adversaryvillage.org/adversary-events/DEFCON-34/Abhijith-B-R/ 
 -\n   [2]https://adversaryvillage.org/adversary-events/DEFCON-34/Abhijith-
 B-R/\n   '\n\n   1. #LVCCW_Level1_Hall2\n   2. https://adversaryvillage.or
 g/adversary-events/DEFCON-34/Abhijith-B-R/\n\n\n
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LOCATION:Adversary Village - LVCCW Level 1 Hall 2 602 (Adversary Village) W
 orkshop Stage
SUMMARY:Adversary Village Kick-off Keynote
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