Hackfest 2024 - 16-bit Edition

Caspian Kilkelly

I have 20+ years of experience in a few different security fields as a manager, a senior analyst, Incident Response lead and senior consultant. I've also worked on the IT side of the house, and doing 'physical' security work, as a venue and personal security manager and planner.

My other career interests include city planning and development (CPTED and networked cities), photojournalism, audiovisual work and media production- I've been included in teams working in all of these fields over the c


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Sessions

10-11
10:00
120min
Live TableTop (TTX) Session
Caspian Kilkelly

Step into the IR front lines in this interactive TTX session, where you'll navigate a simulated incident. Participants will make critical decisions and respond to real-world TTPs and threats. In this session, we'll take the audience through a series of unfolding challenges, allowing them to gain practical insight into utilizing tabletop exercises their cybersecurity readiness, test their knowledge and work with their peers to respond to a major enterprise incident. The session will cover crucial elements of an enterprise incident as an audience-based interactive talk, and discuss how to build and run a similar session with your own team.

Defensive
Track 3 (205c)
10-11
14:00
50min
Going Purple: how combined exercises can improve security
Caspian Kilkelly

Testing in a vacum is handy for discovering things that need fixing, and it's a lot of help for the vulnerability managers and security teams out there. Training your defenders is also pretty great, for obvious reasons. What if you could combine both into a single activity? What if that activity ALSO could help frame some of the crazy risks that the people you work for are facing right now? In this talk we'll cover the basics of what a purple team activity looks like, why you'd want to run one, and how to make sure it supports other testing and improvement efforts within your company.

Offensive
Track 1 (206b)