November 30
- December 1

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As an AvengerConVII sponsor you will have the unique opportunity to reach and engage with all service members and employees of U.S. Cyber Command and Department of Defense personnel supporting cyberspace missions. AvengerCon features presentations, hacker villages, training workshops, and much more.

This is a hybrid in-person and virtual event happening on November 30th and December 1st at the DreamPort HQ in Columbia, MD. 

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AvengerConVII Training

Trainings are only open to Military, DoD and academic students

Agenda

OPENING REMARKS: 0800

Keynote

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko and Sarah Zatko 

Pioneers of modern infosec/cybersecurity

Speakers : Track One

Armchair Cyberwarriors: 6 Months of Cybercriminal and Hacktivist Activities Related to the Russian War in Ukraine

Alexander Leslie, Recorded Future

2022-12-01 @ 0920 EST

Breaking GraphQL

Grant Smith, Virginia Tech AROTC

2022-12-01 @ 1010 EST

Quantum Encryption in a Classical Internet

Hamilton T. Bonds, 2d Battalion, 1st IO Command (L)

Kinetic Cyber Effects for the Win

BREAK : 1245 -1250 EST

PANEL

Talent Management in a Competitive World

Creating a Custom Machine Learning Object Detection Model with YOLOv5

Protect Yourself from Gamer Input II

(Back) Into the Breach: Political Party Account Exposure and Why It Matters

BREAK : 16:30 -1645 EST

CLOSING REMARKS : 1645 - 1700

Post-AvengerCon VII Social Hosted by the MCPA Ft. Meade Chapter 4:35 pm - 7:00 pm on Thursday, December 1st

Speakers : Track two

PAI Operations: Everyone Can See What Lives Beyond Your Network Boundary



Ransomware: Brokering Initial Access

Threat Modeling Internet Censorship: Towards Evaluation of Managed Attribution Software

Cyber Threat Intelligence on the Deep and Dark Web

Cyber Domain Dominance: Who Has It, How to Get It and How To Keep It

Why Won't U Boot?

PANEL

Semantic Hypergraphs May Win the Next War

Hacking DevOps

Media Effects Used in Influence Operations

Large Scale Sentiment Modification Campaign Creation with Open Source Technology

Mike Reid, Xorre

BREAK : 16:30 -1645 EST

CLOSING REMARKS : 1645 - 1700

Post-AvengerCon VII Social Hosted by the MCPA Ft. Meade Chapter 4:35 pm - 7:00 pm on Thursday, December 1st

Speakers : Track three

Learning From the Mistakes of Others: Incident Response Edition

Covertly Infiltrating and Monitoring C&C Servers

The Sliver Lining: Understanding the C2 Framework for Blue Team

Post-quantum Cryptography and U.S. Government Activities

Brighten up the Ideal Sky: An Inside View of CharmingKitten's Holistic Support to IRGC Operations

Future Army Security Capabilities From the Cyber Security Collaborative Research Alliance

PANEL

The Future of Defensive Cyber Operations

Joint Services Talent Recruitment

MFA Is Not Enough!

BIRDBOX: If You See It, It's Already Too Late

BREAK : 16:35 -1645 EST

CLOSING REMARKS : 1645 - 1700

Post-AvengerCon VII Social Hosted by the MCPA Ft. Meade Chapter 4:35 pm - 7:00 pm on Thursday, December 1st

Register for Andy Greenberg 'Tracers in the Dark' Book Talk

AvengerConVII welcomes Andy Greenberg, the senior cybersecurity writer for WIRED and award-winning author of SANDWORM as he talks about his new book ‘Tracers in the Dark’ The Global Hunt for Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency.