Ground Truth·18 min
Preeti Ravindra
Shows how A/B experiments measure whether LLM tools actually help SOC analysts write incident findings faster and better.
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Browse DEF CON 34Las Vegas, USA · August 2024 · 14 talks
Ground Truth talks from BSides Las Vegas 2024.
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Ground Truth·18 min
Preeti Ravindra
Shows how A/B experiments measure whether LLM tools actually help SOC analysts write incident findings faster and better.
Ground Truth·56 min
Fred Heiding · Simon Lermen
Shows how large language models can automate spear phishing campaigns and how personalized spam filters can counter them.
Ground Truth·42 min
Emanuel Valente
Shows how black-box adversarial attacks evade machine-learning models that detect DNS-over-HTTPS tunnels.
Ground Truth·37 min
Matthew Canham
Presents a cognitive attack taxonomy that links social engineering tactics against humans and AI systems.
Ground Truth·21 min
Emily Austin
Shows how to count industrial control devices on the internet while filtering out honeypots, lab setups and false positives.
Ground Truth·34 min
Arun Vishwanath
Examines how parents decide when to give children smartphones, and where their cautious instincts may not match the evidence.
Ground Truth·35 min
Suha Sabi Hussain
Shows how input-handling bugs in ML model file parsers can be chained into backdoors that carry through into deployed pipelines.
Ground Truth·41 min
Brandon Pinzon
Shows how public SEC cyber filings can be paired with financial data to spot early warning signals of breach impact.
Ground Truth·45 min
Wendy Hou-Neely
Presents cyber insurance claims data on incident costs, ransomware payment trends, and privacy and business interruption exposure.
Ground Truth·52 min
Bobby Filar
Shows how internet measurement studies can expose hack-for-hire phishing, scanner accuracy gaps, and patching friction.
Ground Truth·22 min
Hirofumi Kawauchi
Shows how a large Japanese telecom used SSVC decision trees to narrow 50,000 vulnerabilities to a realistic urgent set.
Ground Truth·41 min
Douglas McKee
Presents a method for reversing a proprietary protocol from packet captures, then applies it to attack and detection.
Ground Truth·22 min
Ariana Mirian
Shows how quickly internet-wide scan results go stale, with uptime varying by port, protocol and network.
Ground Truth·54 min
Ezz Tahoun
Shows how open-source language and graph models can group SOC alerts into ATT&CK-mapped attack campaigns.