BSides Knoxville 2024: Full Schedule

9:00am EDT

Mind the Gap: Unlocking the Power of Neurodiversity in Information Security

Cybersecurity thrives on diverse thinking. Research suggests neurodivergent individuals excel in this field. This presentation unlocks their potential & builds inclusive teams for a more secure future.

Speakers

Xavier Ashe

SVP, Cyber Operations and Technology, Truist

Xavier Ashe is currently a Senior Vice President in Truist’s Security Operations division and the Chairman of the Board for the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Information Security Society. Xavier is a Georgia Institute of Technology alumnus and has over 30 years of leadership... Read More →

Friday May 24, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
Regas Square 333 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Culture

9:00am EDT

Doing More in AppSec by Doing Less

Building an appsec program is an exercise in trade-offs. You wouldn't know this from most conference talks that serve you an acronym soup of technologies you must deploy. Not this talk: how to meaningful improve outcomes by doing less. Your developers will love you (or at least not hate you) for it.

Speakers

John Heasman

CISO

John Heasman has held security leadership positions for over a decade, including CISO of a public company.He is passionate about building high performing teams that apply proactive approaches to securing software.He has presented at Black Hat, Defcon, OWASP AppSec and multiple BSides... Read More →

Friday May 24, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
The Mill & Mine 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Defense

10:00am EDT

Decoding OAuth & OIDC: The Path to Secure Authentication

Embark on a journey to fortified authentication with 'Decoding OAuth & OIDC.' Unravel the complexities of these foundational protocols as we pave the path to secure user authentication. From understanding the intricacies of OAuth & OIDC to implementing best practices.

Speakers

Prabesh Thapa

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Capsule

Prabesh Thapa is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer and Backend Developer. With a keen interest in backend development, Prabesh has dedicated his career to crafting robust and scalable solutions that power the digital landscape. He is also a Docker Captian and Auth0 Ambassador... Read More →

Friday May 24, 2024 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
The Mill & Mine 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Defense

10:00am EDT

Who Makes the Rules?

I aimed to test how a ML algorithm can mitigate vulnerabilities in otherwise valid code, by generating rules that were valid and non-redundant. I created a compiler that scans given code for vulnerabilites by calling a GPT API in order to make an output that can be actively used by developers.

Speakers

Meghna Vikram

My name is Meghna Vikram. I am a 16 year old girl from Oviedo, Florida with a passion for learning more about Artificial Intelligence. I've met with professionals from both the Navy and Air Force about my current research and aim to learn more and gain loads of experience! On the... Read More →

Friday May 24, 2024 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Regas Square 333 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Defense

11:00am EDT

The Compromise of the Baskervilles - Wholistic Testing in the "Automagic" Era

Pen-Testing.
Compliance.
AI automation.
"Can we compete with the tools we have today?"
"Are we secure?"

Heard these fated questions before? With so much change in Cybersec, where is your anchor?

Enduring principles are there. Observe them well and be prepared for what's next.

Speakers

Joshua Jones

Information Security Consultant, Contextual Security Solutions

Servant of Christ, husband of one, father of four, and lover of technology. One of those crazy Cybersec farmers who geeks out at the latest tech, but gardens and chicken coops are the after-hours haunt. Used to live in Japan and have a never-ending love for Japanese people and culture... Read More →

Friday May 24, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
The Mill & Mine 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Defense

11:00am EDT

The Arduboy Story

Learn about the challenges of designing, manufacturing, selling and actually making profit off a hobby that went viral on the internet.

Speakers

Kevin Bates

Founder and President, Arduboy

Creator of the Arduboy, Founder and President of Arduboy, IncPreviously: Wind turbine mechanic, Beekeeper, Fiberoptic telecommunications technician, Automotive performance specialist, Shipping Logistics Specialist, Web and Graphic Designer

Friday May 24, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Regas Square 333 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Storytelling

12:00pm EDT

Lunch

Friday May 24, 2024 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Food Trucks

1:00pm EDT

Keynote (Title TBA)

Description TBA

Speakers

Allison Miller

Principal, Cartomancy Labs

Allison Miller is Founder and Principal at Cartomancy Labs, an advisory firm that guides teams in innovating and solving problems anywhere that people, money, and technology mingle. With decades of experience at the intersection of cybersecurity, fraud, and abuse, Allison is known... Read More →

Friday May 24, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
The Mill & Mine 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Defense

2:00pm EDT

Network Security: It Just Makes pfSense

pfSense is an extremely powerful firewall, IPS, and router. From inexpensive homemade hardware to professional Netgate appliances, pfSense is a 20+ year FreeBSD veteran in the network security landscape. This talk will focus on how defenders can make the most of its extensive open-source offerings.

Speakers

Kyle Goode

I am a life long blue teamer who is passoniate about creative security solutions in healthcare where the security challenges are never in short supply. I am a perpetual tinkerer always looking for ways to build, fix and improve secuirty solutions. When I am not working on secuirty... Read More →

Friday May 24, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
Regas Square 333 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Defense

2:00pm EDT

A Hillbilly's First C2

Howdy, y'all!

Ever wondered about crafting your own C2 for pentesting? Join this ol' hillbilly on an adventure as we explore some of the many decisions and trade-offs that are involved in crafting a basic C2.

Speakers

Adam Compton

Principal Security Consultant, TrustedSec

Adam Compton has been a programmer, researcher, instructor, professional pentester, father, husband, and farmer. Adam has over 2 decades of programming, network security, incident response, security assessment, and penetration testing experience. Throughout Adam's career, he has worked... Read More →

Friday May 24, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
The Mill & Mine 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Offense

3:00pm EDT

MySQL server attacks YOU! (How we found CVE-2023-21980 in MySQL)

Can MySQL server attack YOU? Can a hacker execute a code on your laptop if you will simply login to a hacked MySQL database server? Is it even possible? Our presentation will unveil a novel attack vector, where MySQL database clients become the unsuspecting targets of an attack chain.

Speakers

Alexander Rubin

Sr. Database Engineer, AWS

Alexander is Sr Database Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading RDS Red Team._x000D_ _x000D_ Alexander was working as MySQL principal consultant/architect for over 15 years, started with MySQL AB in 2006 (company behind MySQL database), Sun Microsystems, Oracle and then Percona... Read More →

Friday May 24, 2024 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Regas Square 333 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Research

3:00pm EDT

TBD

Speakers

Travis Goodspeed

Travis Goodspeed is ecstatic to live in Knoxville again, where he drives an Ectomobile and a '64 Studebaker. He collects reverse engineering tricks.

Friday May 24, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
The Mill & Mine 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Offense

4:00pm EDT

SOC Essentials: Assembling Your First Response Team

It is crucial a Security Operations Center (SOC) is prepared to be the forefront to all cyber threats targeting a business. This discussion will cover key elements for SOC development, including construction, metric-driven risk identification, strategic roadmaps, and addressing monitoring gaps.

Speakers

Reanna Schultz

Team Leader of Information Security, Garmin

Reanna Schultz attended the University of Central Missouri (UCM) and graduated in 2018 with her Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity: Secure Software Development and later graduated with her Master of Science in Cybersecurity: Information Assurance. While in the industry, Reanna has... Read More →

Friday May 24, 2024 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Regas Square 333 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Defense

4:00pm EDT

Lies, Telephony, and Hacking History

Most attendees newer to InfoSec were never taught the history of phone phreaking or about the early days of computer hacking. I cover those topics plus where social engineering and technology intertwined. I also plan to bring and live demo lots of cool technological phone phreaking relics!

Speakers

Matt Scheurer

Show Host, ThreatReel Podcast

Matt Scheurer is a show host for the ThreatReel Podcast, and Vice President of Computer Security and Incident Response in a large enterprise environment. He has many years of hands-on technical experience. Matt is an official "Hacking is NOT a Crime" Advocate, serves on the Advisory... Read More →

Friday May 24, 2024 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
The Mill & Mine 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Storytelling

5:00pm EDT

Championing Security: Scaling Security At Every Level

Security teams are outnumbered. Securing every network, device, API, user, and system is an endless task. How can we hope to keep up in an ever-evolving threat landscape?
It is time for an age of champions. Security Champions.
Let's rethink how security can look and feel across the whole org.

Speakers

Dwayne McDaniel

Sr. Security Developer Advocate, GitGuardian

Dwayne has been working as a Developer Relations professional since 2015 and has been involved in tech communities since 2005. He loves sharing his knowledge, and he has done so by giving talks at over a hundred events worldwide. Dwayne currently lives in Chicago. Outside of tech... Read More →

Friday May 24, 2024 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
The Mill & Mine 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Culture

5:00pm EDT

OSINT for Incident Investigations

I've resolved multiple incident investigations just using open-source intelligence (OSINT). Let me show you how and why OSINT belongs in your incident-response toolkit!

Speakers

Patterson Cake

DFIR Consultant, Black Hills Information Security

Patterson Cake, GCFA, GNFA, GCFR, GPEN, GXPN, GWAPT, CISSPPatterson has worked in information-technology for more than 20 years, with a focus on information-security for the past 10 years, specializing in the development of incident-response teams, programs, and processes. He is currently... Read More →

Friday May 24, 2024 5:00pm - 5:50pm EDT
Regas Square 333 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Defense

6:00pm EDT

Hacker Jeopardy (The BSides Knoxville 10th Anniversary After Party)

Friday May 24, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
The Mill & Mine 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA

Culture