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Friday, May 22
 

8:30am EDT

Opening Remarks
Friday May 22, 2026 8:30am - 9:00am EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine)
It's our 12th year! We'll chat a bit about:
  • Organizer changes (and availabilities)
  • How our finances are looking headed into 2027
  • Introduce our platinum sponsors (Clayton Homes, Cisco ASIG, and Starseer)
Friday May 22, 2026 8:30am - 9:00am EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine) 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 1, Remarks

9:00am EDT

*ishing, Tokens, and Clouds...Oh My!
Friday May 22, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine)
Your office printer is a weapon. Watch how attackers weaponize forgotten network devices to bypass MFA, steal tokens, and infiltrate enterprise environments. Discover the attack chain, why defenses fail, and how to stop it.
Speakers
avatar for Kyle Parrish

Kyle Parrish

Senior Technical Engineer, Counter Hack
Friday May 22, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine) 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 1, Regular-Length Talk

9:00am EDT

404: Cyber Career Not Found - The Beginner’s Guide to Cybersecurity
Friday May 22, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Track2 (Regas Square Events)
Breaking into cybersecurity can feel overwhelming for beginners. Between choosing certifications, figuring out what skills actually matter, applying to jobs that require “3–5 years of experience,” and navigating an industry full of advice, many aspiring professionals feel like they’ve hit a wall (a firewall, if you will.) This talk takes a different approach to explaining the early...
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Speakers
DR
Friday May 22, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Track2 (Regas Square Events) 333 W Depot Ave, Suite 120, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 2, Regular-Length Talk

10:00am EDT

Hillbilly Storytime: AI Hallucinations, Faceplants, and Other “Wait… That Ain’t Right” Moments
Friday May 22, 2026 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine)
Who is this talk for? Security folks, tool builders, and tinkerers who are using (or thinking about using) AI in their workflows—and have already noticed it can be equal parts genius and nonsense. Problem Statement LLMs are being dropped into security tooling everywhere—writing scripts, reviewing findings, generating reports, even helping with exploitation. The problem is, they don’t...
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Speakers
avatar for Adam Compton

Adam Compton

Principal Security Consultant, TrustedSec
Adam Compton has been a programmer, researcher, instructor, professional pentester, father, husband, and farmer. Adam has over 2 decades of programming, network security, incident response, security assessment, and penetration testing experience. Throughout Adam's career, he has worked... Read More →
Friday May 22, 2026 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine) 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 1, Regular-Length Talk

10:00am EDT

DNS Servers and Interrupting Cybercrime
Friday May 22, 2026 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Track2 (Regas Square Events)
In November 2025, I set up a DNS Server in DigitalOcean to demonstrate how to gain experience, even without traditional "homelab" equipment. Everything was going well until my DNS Server started receiving 1,500 requests a minute, all targeting a regional bank's TXT records.
Speakers
avatar for Jeff Krakenberg

Jeff Krakenberg

As a technical trainer and security researcher, it is my goal to spread awareness and knowledge. Experience includes: lecturing about cybersecurity, moderating open discussions about vulnerabilities, and building hacking labs for students. Like many others, I often delve too deep... Read More →
Friday May 22, 2026 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Track2 (Regas Square Events) 333 W Depot Ave, Suite 120, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 2, Regular-Length Talk

11:00am EDT

Rebuilding security strategy from breach lessons
Friday May 22, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine)
For nearly a decade, I've been gathering and studying details from breaches. In the beginning, there wasn't much, but over the years, more and more has emerged in the public record. There's enough data now that it's time to start talking about what we can learn from the failures of others. This will follow up on my RSAC 2026 talk, which focused more on making the argument for breach transparency....
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Speakers
avatar for Adrian Sanabria

Adrian Sanabria

Founder and Principal Researcher, The Defenders Initiative
Adrian is the Founder and Principal Researcher at The Defenders Initiative, a firm he founded to feature and support decades of cybersecurity research. His background spans technical, GRC, and leadership roles with a background as a practitioner, incident responder, penetration tester... Read More →
Friday May 22, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine) 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 1, Regular-Length Talk

11:00am EDT

Game Hacking Bootcamp: Zero to Cheater in 45 Minutes
Friday May 22, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Track2 (Regas Square Events)
Want to get started in game hacking without getting overwhelmed? Have you already dabbled in the subject and hit a wall? This talk offers a practical introduction for cybersecurity professionals and enthusiasts, mixing hands-on demos, theory, and a learning roadmap designed to keep the curve manageable. Along the way you'll see how game hacking builds real skills in reverse engineering, binary...
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Speakers
BM
Friday May 22, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Track2 (Regas Square Events) 333 W Depot Ave, Suite 120, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 2, Regular-Length Talk

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Break
Friday May 22, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine)
Check out Hamburger Hill or make a suggestion for next year's food truck!
Friday May 22, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine) 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 1

1:00pm EDT

Brother, Can You Spare A Token? What AI Means For the Security Poverty Line
Friday May 22, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine)
Described since 2011, the security poverty line is that point below which an organization can’t effectively secure itself. This is due to a lot of factors, and the recent popular trend of AI use (particularly LLMs) has muddied the waters even more. Is it going to save the vast majority of security have-nots? Will it only help the token-rich 1%? Or is it mostly just helping the attackers? In this...
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Speakers
WN
Friday May 22, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine) 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 1, Keynote

2:00pm EDT

Graphing the Human Attack Surface
Friday May 22, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine)
Every organization has a human attack surface. Most have no idea how big it is. Using basic scraping methods against public social media platforms, we built a graph database that disambiguates profiles across platforms and resolves fragmented online identities into confirmed employees. The graph maps organizational hierarchies, team structures, reporting relationships, and personal details. This...
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Speakers
ME
Friday May 22, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine) 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 1, Regular-Length Talk

2:00pm EDT

Password Reset Is Not Incident Response: Hunting OAuth Persistence in Microsoft 365
Friday May 22, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Track2 (Regas Square Events)
Password Reset Is Not Incident Response: Hunting OAuth Persistence in Microsoft 365 When a Microsoft 365 account is compromised, most organizations follow a familiar script: disable the account, reset the password, enforce MFA, and move on. That playbook is incomplete. Modern attackers do not rely solely on stolen credentials. They establish persistence using OAuth applications, delegated Graph...
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Speakers
AL
Friday May 22, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Track2 (Regas Square Events) 333 W Depot Ave, Suite 120, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 2, Regular-Length Talk

3:00pm EDT

Words of the Wicked: How Language Divides and Unites Cybercriminals
Friday May 22, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine)
How cybercrime speaks matters. This talk compares English, Spanish, and Russian underground forums, revealing how language shapes access, hierarchy, recruitment, targets, and tactics, from open global hubs to regional networks and tightly controlled elite communities.
Speakers
avatar for Stephen Hilt

Stephen Hilt

Sr. Threat Researcher, Trend Micro
tephen Hilt has been in Information Security and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security for over 10 years. He began his career working for a large power utility in the United States where he gained an extensive background in security network engineering, incident response, forensics... Read More →
Friday May 22, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine) 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 1, Regular-Length Talk

3:00pm EDT

The Myth of the Meteoric Rise in Vulnerabilities
Friday May 22, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Track2 (Regas Square Events)
The Common Vulnerability and Exposures standard system is broken and I was part of the problem. I'll go through where we started documenting and correlating vulnerabilities across the industry, and where we went wrong. Oh, and why the US Government is only part of the problem.
Speakers
SM
Friday May 22, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Track2 (Regas Square Events) 333 W Depot Ave, Suite 120, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 2, Regular-Length Talk

3:45pm EDT

Awards Ceremony
Friday May 22, 2026 3:45pm - 4:00pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine)

Friday May 22, 2026 3:45pm - 4:00pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine) 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 1, Remarks

4:00pm EDT

Stacking the Deck: Agentic Workflows for Offensive Security
Friday May 22, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine)
Traditional offensive security is often a battle against the friction of manual reconnaissance, repetitive infrastructure setup, and the tedious translation of tool outputs into actionable reports. As Large Language Models evolve from static chat interfaces into autonomous agents, the role of the security professional is shifting from Manual Operator to Systems Architect.This session approaches...
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Speakers
avatar for Christopher Craig

Christopher Craig

Red Team Security Engineer, Amazon
Chris Craig is an Offensive Security Engineer on Amazon's STORM Red Team, specializing in cloud and network security. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior to Amazon, Chris developed network security solutions at Cisco Systems and... Read More →
Friday May 22, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine) 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 1, Regular-Length Talk
  • about Chris Craig is an Offensive Security Engineer on Amazon's STORM Red Team, specializing in cloud and network security. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior to Amazon, Chris developed network security solutions at Cisco Systems and conducted research involving geospatial imagery at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, building a foundation in application security assessment and vulnerability research.

4:00pm EDT

Keys to the Kingdom: Real World Initial Access Techniques
Friday May 22, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Track2 (Regas Square Events)
Initial access is often portrayed as complex exploitation and zero-day vulnerabilities, but in the real world attackers usually gain entry through much simpler methods such as social engineering, credential harvesting, and the abuse of common misconfigurations.This talk walks through real world techniques used during red team engagements to gain initial access to enterprise environments. We will...
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Speakers
avatar for David Boyd

David Boyd

Senior Security Consultant, Trusted Sec
David Boyd is a Senior Security Consultant at TrustedSec with over 15 years of experience in network, physical, and social engineering penetration testing. A U.S. Army veteran with a deployment to Iraq, David brings the same operational discipline to offensive security engagements... Read More →
Friday May 22, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm EDT
Track2 (Regas Square Events) 333 W Depot Ave, Suite 120, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 2, Regular-Length Talk

5:00pm EDT

Closing Remarks
Friday May 22, 2026 5:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine)

Friday May 22, 2026 5:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
Track1 (The Mill & Mine) 227 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917
  Track 1, Remarks
 

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