
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
Brad Rhodes, 76th ORC, USAR
BREAK : 1245 -1250 EST

PANEL
Katie Moussouris (CEO and Founder, Luta Security) | TJ O’Connor (Professor, Florida Institute of Technology) | Colin Ahern (Chief Cyber Officer, New York State) | Moderator – MAJ Stephen Rogacki (780th MI BDE)

Talent Management in a Competitive World
Ian S. Frist, West Virginia Army National Guard

Creating a Custom Machine Learning Object Detection Model with YOLOv5
Jack M. Graham, CSD-M Data Science Crew

Protect Yourself from Gamer Input II
Rob Guiler, USAF

(Back) Into the Breach: Political Party Account Exposure and Why It Matters
Andrew Schoka, 780th MI BDE (Cyber)
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
Jared W. Dible, Millennium Corporation

Ransomware: Brokering Initial Access
CW Walker & Trevor Hilligoss

Threat Modeling Internet Censorship: Towards Evaluation of Managed Attribution Software
Alexander Master, Purdue University

Cyber Threat Intelligence on the Deep and Dark Web
Allen Britt, Bluestone Analytics

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

Why Won't U Boot?
Ryan Greer, REDLattice

PANEL
Katie Moussouris (CEO and Founder, Luta Security) | TJ O’Connor (Professor, Florida Institute of Technology) | Colin Ahern (Chief Cyber Officer, New York State) | Moderator – MAJ Stephen Rogacki (780th MI BDE)

Semantic Hypergraphs May Win the Next War
Brandon Gonzalez, Cyber Protection Team 185 (USAR)

Hacking DevOps
Phillip Marlow, MITRE

Media Effects Used in Influence Operations
Krassimir Tzvetanov, Purdue University

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
Luke Pearson, Salesforce

Covertly Infiltrating and Monitoring C&C Servers
Jonathan D. Fuller, Army Cyber Institute

The Sliver Lining: Understanding the C2 Framework for Blue Team
TBA

Post-quantum Cryptography and U.S. Government Activities
Samuel Crislip, 782d Military Intelligence Battalion

Brighten up the Ideal Sky: An Inside View of CharmingKitten's Holistic Support to IRGC Operations
Joshua M. Miller, 75th Innovation Command (USAR)

Future Army Security Capabilities From the Cyber Security Collaborative Research Alliance
Trent Jaeger, Penn State University

PANEL
Katie Moussouris (CEO and Founder, Luta Security) | TJ O’Connor (Professor, Florida Institute of Technology) | Colin Ahern (Chief Cyber Officer, New York State) | Moderator – MAJ Stephen Rogacki (780th MI BDE)

The Future of Defensive Cyber Operations
John Black, Henry Coller, Chris Wild & David Vaughn, Army Reserve Cyber Protection Brigade (ARCPB)

Joint Services Talent Recruitment
Brandon Cea & Gabriel Menchaca , Cyber Training Battalion

MFA Is Not Enough!
Dmitry Smilyanets, Recorded Future

BIRDBOX: If You See It, It's Already Too Late
George Sieretzki, ARE CYBERCOM
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.

