Reverse-CTF, Snort rule challenge and more — What to expect from Talos at Defcon
Summary: Cisco Talos will staff the Blue Team Village at Defcon, running Aug. 8-11 with the village itself open Aug. 9-11, where attendees can test threat detection and prevention skills. Its activities include a reverse-CTF in which participants patch vulnerabilities on virtual machines to keep an "attacker" out, a Snort rule challenge open to beginners through advanced researchers, and hackable pumpjack models defended over an unauthenticated protocol and exposed to the entire Defcon network.
What you should know: The pumpjacks are reachable from the whole conference floor, so defenders face opponents from anywhere at Defcon rather than a scripted exercise - a live test of whether unauthenticated industrial protocols can be held against unknown attackers.
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