Keynote

Hunt Forward

Capt Jeffery Banner is the Chief of Weapons, Tactics, and Training for three National Cyber Protection Teams within USCYBERCOMMAND. As Chief, he leads teams that hunt for advanced persistent threats that are operating in networks in the United States and all over the world. Last fall he led a combined operation in Eastern Europe, working with several countries to provide cyber defense for partner nations. He is a graduate of the Air Force Weapons School, and has over 6 years of experience hunting cyber adversaries. He has been at the forefront of several new initiatives within USCYBERCOMMAND that changes the way that the military and government entities share information with the commercial and private sectors.

Velociraptor - Digging Deeper!

Michael Cohen is a Digital Forensic Researcher and Software Engineer. He has worked on such open source DFIR projects as Rekall and GRR. He founded Velocidex, specialising in development and implementation of opensource DFIR tools. He is the Principal Developer of Velociraptor. Velociraptor is a new open source surgical DFIR tool providing an unprecedented visibility into the state of the endpoint. Velociraptor is controlled completely via the Velociraptor Query Language (VQL) - an SQL like dialect. Using this language it is possible for users to customize and automate detection and response. This talk will demonstrate how Velociraptor can be used in a distributed DFIR investigation - both to efficiently triage and rapidly analyze forensic evidence.

Software Supply Chain under Cyber Attack

Negar Shabab is an Application Security Consultant. Negar works on implementation of security practices into DevOps pipeline with a focus on automation. Before joining PS&C Group she was a senior malware analyst and security software developer. She has worked across the full life cycle of multiple security software products often working in senior and lead roles. She has extensive experience developing anti-malware software modules and security applications for the Windows operating systems. Negar is an active member of the Australian Women in Security Network (AWSN) which aims to support and inspire women in the Australian security industry. Currently Negar works as an application security consultant with PS&C Group.

Never before had Stierlitz been so close to failure

Sergei Shevchenko has more than 18 years of professional experience reverse engineering malware and is a recognized expert in his field. His analysis of high-profile malware attacks, including previous years' Bangladesh Bank heist, attacks on Polish and other banks, recent cyber espionage within managed service providers and ransomware attacks affecting thousands of vital service organizations globally, is the go-to information source for risk and technology officers and their teams around the world. Sergei manages a global team of cyber-threat researchers at SophosLabs.

Adversarial Machine Learning - The Cylance Case Study

Adi is currently the CEO of Skylight Cyber, a boutique cyber security advisory based in Sydney. Previously, he served as the deputy director of an elite cyber technology department in the Israeli government, leading Israel’s finest engineers and security professionals through some of the world’s most complex cyber security challenges. In addition, he served as VP Product for XM Cyber, where he designed the world’s first fully automated red team solution, an achievement for which the company received the world economic forum technology pioneer award and numerous patents.

Attacking the HID Access Control System

Alex Dib is a security researcher and consultant.
Alex comes from a mechanical/robotics background where he uses his acquired knowledge to conduct covert and overt physical security assessments specializing in physical access control systems. He has contributed to several open source projects such as the official Proxmark3 repository, Concierge, Wiegotcha and more. Alex is currently serving as a Security Consultant at NCC Group.
This talk will cover 3 attack vectors on the HID access control system; Long Range RFID cloning, networked door controller exploitation and a replay attack.

Attacking the HID Access Control System

Gavin is currently serving as Professor of Physics, Macquarie University
Gavin Brennen grew up in Alaska and graduated from UAF with a degree in physics. He completed a PhD in quantum information at the University of New Mexico with a thesis proposing one of the first quantum computer architectures. Afterward he worked as a post-doc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland and as Senior Scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Innsbruck Austria. In 2008, Gavin moved to Macquarie University, Sydney Australia where he is currently a Professor of Physics and director of the Centre for Quantum Engineering.