Schedule and Venue
October 25-26, 2023 at Appian HQ in the Washington, DC area.\
| Date | Tracks |
|---|---|
| October 25, 2023 | Operations and Philosophy |
| October 26, 2023 | Operations and Philosophy |
Philosophy Track⌗
| October 25 | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration, Coffee | |
| 09:00-09:30 | Conference Kickoff | |
| 09:30-10:00 | Sounil Yu | Anticipating the Next Stages of the AI Revolution (Joint Session) |
| 10:00-10:05 | Transition from Auditorium to Conference Rooms | |
| 10:05-10:15 | Sounil Yu | Day 1 Welcome and Overview of the Philosophy Track |
| 10:15-10:55 | Ross Haleliuk | Motivation & incentive systems that shape the dynamics of the cybersecurity industry for security practitioners and future founders |
| 10:55-11:35 | Nick Chalard | Less is Not More: Sharing Richer Indicators |
| 11:35-12:15 | Ariel Robinson | It’s the Economy, Stupid: Tackling Technical Debt in Times of Economic Uncertainty |
| 12:15-13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00-13:45 | Yael Nagler | Maturing your security program means leveling up, personally |
| 13:45-14:30 | Sounil Yu | A machine quantifiable approach to risk quantification |
| 14:30-15:15 | Jerry Perullo | Breaking down the wall between art and science; artists can type fast too |
| 15:15-15:30 | Break | |
| 15:30-16:15 | Other / Sounil Yu | Lightning Talks / Measuring Privilege |
| 16:15-16:45 | Sounil Yu | Recap / Discussion |
| October 26 | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 09:15-09:30 | Sounil Yu | Day 2: Welcome and Day 1 Recap |
| 09:30-10:00 | Sounil Yu | Exploring the role and the limits of AI in cybersecurity through the lens of the Cyber Defense Matrix |
| 10:00-10:40 | David Shinberg | Applying Physical Discipline to Cybersecurity Challenges |
| 10:40-10:55 | Break | |
| 10:55-11:35 | Donald McCarthy | Cheap Parking and Express Lanes Through Your Proxy Filters |
| 11:35-12:15 | Claude Mandy | The year of RADICAL data breach transparency |
| 12:15-13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00-13:45 | Ian Campbell, Travis Hall | Out Of Time: Neurodivergent Success in Security as a Framework |
| 13:45-14:30 | Zeal Somani | Controls Reliability Engineering |
| 14:30-15:15 | Chris Cooley | Discover Your Cyber Superpowers |
| 15:15-15:30 | Break | |
| 15:30-16:15 | Larry Greenblatt | Ask Not Will AGI Be Aligned With Our Values, Ask Are My Values Consistent With Big Data. |
| 16:15-16:45 | Sounil Yu | Recap / Discussion |
Operations Track⌗
| October 25 | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration, Coffee | |
| 09:00-09:30 | Conference Kickoff | |
| 09:30-10:00 | Sounil Yu | Anticipating the Next Stages of the AI Revolution (Joint Session) |
| 10:00-10:45 | John Althouse | JA4+ Network Fingerprinting |
| 10:45-11:05 | Break | |
| 11:05-11:30 | Jimmy Blakeney | I Don’t Know You! - One Way of Verifying Contacts |
| 11:30-12:15 | Sasha Levy | Easy Mode Deception Technology Deployments @ Scale |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch | |
| 13:15-14:00 | Justin Borland | Sigma and MISP visualization for the masses |
| 14:00-14:30 | Armen Martirosyan | Are You Committed to Secret Free Version Control? |
| 14:30-15:15 | Ian Campbell, Travis Hall, Daniel Schwalbe | Keeping Exchange Blue with a Walled Garden |
| 15:15-15:35 | Break | |
| 15:35-16:15 | Christine Le | Threat Detection Engineering Metrics |
| 16:15-16:45 | Jordan Anderson | Get MADD, Not Glad: Metrics for ATT&CK-driven detection |
| October 26 | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 09:15-10:00 | Kymberlee Price | DevSecOps is Dead, Long Live DevSecOps |
| 10:00-10:45 | Jason Craig | LAPSUS$* is better than us |
| 10:45-11:05 | Break | |
| 11:05-11:45 | Arpan Abani Sarkar | Getting MAAD-AF to Attack Microsoft 365 & Azure AD |
| 11:45-12:15 | David Hunt | The upside-down of ATT&CK coverage |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch | |
| 13:15-13:45 | James Jin Park | Cybersecurity Law Demystified |
| 13:45-14:15 | Derek Chamorro | Threat Actor: Scattered Spider |
| 14:15-14:45 | Darien Hirotsu | Dealing with Kubernetes Identity Crisises! |
| 14:45-15:15 | Taiga Walker, Venkat Iyer | Deception and Connection: How we Fooled a Scammer and Made a Friend |
| 15:15-15:30 | Break | |
| 15:30-16:45 | Lightning Talks | |
| 16:45- | Happy Hour |
Venue⌗
Appian HQ
7950 Jones Branch Dr, McLean, VA 22102
Garage parking available on-site at $10/day.
The Philosophy Track will be in the Conference Center on the Lobby floor.
The Operations Track will be in the Main Auditorium on the Lobby floor.
There is plenty of space and seating between these rooms, including a Cafe & Bar, for the traditional ACoD side discussions.
Hotels⌗
Within a 5 minute walk is the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner
Within a 15 minute walk is the Watermark Hotel
Beyond those there are plenty of hotel options in the Tysons Area.