I Am The Cavalry·30 min
David Batz
Explains how households and neighborhoods can plan to go 30 days without outside help.
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Browse DEF CON 34Las Vegas, USA · August 2025 · 13 talks
I Am The Cavalry talks from BSides Las Vegas 2025.
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I Am The Cavalry·30 min
David Batz
Explains how households and neighborhoods can plan to go 30 days without outside help.
I Am The Cavalry·31 min
Slava I. Maslennikov
Surveys licensed and unlicensed radio options, from CB and GMRS to amateur radio and Meshtastic, for communicating during emergencies.
I Am The Cavalry·42 min
Alexander Vanino · Ruslan Karimov
Shows how attacks on water and power systems cascade into hospital and EMS failures, and how joint planning can help.
I Am The Cavalry·28 min
Grace Menna
Maps US cyber volunteering programs that help under-resourced organizations and proposes short- and long-term steps to scale them.
I Am The Cavalry·39 min
Blake Scott · Scott Fraser
Applies the national incident management command structure to cyber incidents, covering roles, staff safety and span of control.
I Am The Cavalry·1 hr 53 min
Virginia "Ginger" Wright · Andrew Ohrt
Panel on applying engineering principles to limit cyber attack impacts on US water and wastewater systems.
I Am The Cavalry·2 hr 3 min
Beau Woods · Christian Dameff · Dina Carlisle
Panel examines how ransomware and outages disrupt hospital care, and what practical and policy responses could help.
I Am The Cavalry·1 hr
Stacey Higginbotham · Silas Cutler · Paul Roberts
Examines how end-of-life routers, smart devices and industrial gear leave unpatched risks threatening public safety.
I Am The Cavalry·54 min
Curtis Hanson · Andrew Rose
Covers cyber risks to water, farm and hospital systems, from ransomware on utilities to exposed industrial controllers.
I Am The Cavalry·1 hr 1 min
Emma Stewart · Munish Walther-Puri
Examines how AI data-center growth strains the electric grid and why energy resilience matters for AI.
I Am The Cavalry·29 min
Joe Slowik
Argues that ransomware already disrupts essential services as much as state attacks, and that shared controls can address both.
I Am The Cavalry·1 hr 32 min
Josh Corman · Bryson Bort
Frames dependence on water, power and hospitals as a growing hybrid-warfare risk ahead of 2027.
I Am The Cavalry·53 min
Josh Corman
Makes the case for short-term steps to protect water, hospitals and emergency care from cyber disruption.