Opening Remarks - Day 2

All right. Good morning, BSides, how are we doing? Yeah, that's more enthusiasm than I thought, given the hour. My name is Brian Richardson. I'm one of the Board of Directors members. I'm also the idiot you see running around yesterday, making sure all the streams were working. Which wasn't that hard of a job. Thank you volunteers, but we'll get more into that later. Today's schedule... we're workshop heavy this year, which is fantastic. Hands on activities are great. They are on the left side... my left, your right... because I'm on a stage. But if you were in Track 2 yesterday, seeing those great presentations, that is now converted to three workshop spaces. We should still have space

in a lot of those workshops, so please check for each one. And again, they won't be recorded or streamed, but they're great hands on activities. That's one of the benefits of actually being here in person. And then we have this wonderful track, except for me, who's back up here at 11. I do want to thank the board of directors for putting this all together, doing the heavy lifting. I joined fairly recently compared to other board members and it's been a lot of fun seeing the inner workings of how this thing go. And the board of directors meetings... we're a 501C3 nonprofit. They are open. We'll meet the second Wednesday of every month. And there's a Google group that will get you on the e-mail so that you can get the fun invites

and see how the sausage is made... and whether it's vegan or not. Thanks to the review board, they have a fairly difficult job of sifting through some really great talks and figuring out not only do they meet our audience, but where should they go in relation to other talks. So give them a round of applause because it's a lot of stuff to sift through. And one nice thing is there's a balance of topics. I like the fact that it's not just "I broke a router" for, you know, 48 straight hours. There's a lot of variety in what people do. Some social engineering, some beginner stuff, some expert stuff for you squinting at 10 point Courier New from the back row looking

at someone's code. It's the whole variety of things you can find at one of these shows.

Also the organizing committee... these are not all board of directors members, and some of them even do work off site. So a lot of the prep for this somebody like say Juliana Ball, "Jewels", who is one of my colleagues, he's doing most of this remote the social media stuff. We've had her on for the this year new and it's really upped our social media game. But a lot of the way the mechanics work on this, the really hard work of this show is six months before it. Once we actually get here, we're pretty relaxed because the show is happening. No matter what happened. I'm going to bring Joe up to give us an update on what's going on with the badges.

How are the badges working for everyone? We've only had a handful of like broken ones, which either means you're not using them or only a handful of them broke. And we talked yesterday about how to use them. You point, you click, you do things, you trade. We have candy cash outs. And because there was no line, the exchange rate dropped. So 1 virtual candy gets you one real candy at this point. And that will persist. Actually, it's probably going to change like one virtual candy equals 5 real candies very soon. As long as we have candy remaining 'cause we have a lot of candy remaining. We did get through about half of it. But like, the reality is there's usually fewer people on Saturday. So we gotta, we

gotta team up, work together and finish all that candy. Question. The room, oh, it's actually been traveling around. It'll either be at registration or in the sponsor room or following me in a cart. But one of those two most likely next to the next to either registration or the registration or the T-shirts. T-shirts, if you haven't gotten them, I don't know if you mentioned that. Go get them this morning if you read or pre-ordered one because this afternoon we're not taking them home. They're going to be given to people and you can be those people, but if you bought a t-shirt and you want your T-shirt, go get it. This morning, but we're talking about the badges, not the T-shirts.

There's the URL. You can get all the code. We'll post the keys sometime this week. You can plug it in. You can modify code. You can learn circuit Python. If you're looking for flags, this is a badge. We do flashy lights. All right, CTF is still going on. Not a lot of updates for the day, but if you're doing the CTF, keep doing the CTF. I hear the social engineering part of this is hilarious. Check in with ctf.bsidespdx.org to get all that wonderful information. It's not necessarily a 'start in a room' type of exercise. You will find yourself to various points following the challenge. But play along. I think you can play along a little bit at home. But yeah, it's all available there. And also I think they're still doing "free to a bad

home" for access points that could be examined. Take it home. That's the important part is not that does they have routers, but they shouldn't have them by the end of today. CTF prizes. We have prizes and if it's your first CTF, congratulations, they're special prizes. You must be present at closing ceremonies to win, so sorry if you are playing along at home. We also want to thank our sponsors. Again, we're nonprofit. This doesn't happen without the sponsor stepping up, so give them a round of applause, please. Yeah, when I joined the board, I found out these things cost money. We have a treasurer and everything, like we had to file tax papers. It's serious. So without

them, we don't have this kind of community give back. And also a lot of these companies are involved in multiple levels. Some of our sponsor companies also have volunteers come from them. So that's always great. And one of the benefits of having sponsors is discounts for you, the audience. So there's a No Starch Press discount code BP24 for 30% off. I sound like I'm advertising a mattress on a podcast. Use code BP24 for 30% off and smash that like and subscribe button for BSides. Actually do hit the button on the YouTube, by the way. We want... we want you to ring that bell. God, I used to do a podcast before there were mattress ads. I don't know how this works anymore. Did you

know there were podcasts before mattress ads? It was weird time again. Thank you. Tons of people, CTF team, AV volunteers. The reason I can run around and kind of check on things and then also have lunch is because we've got like half a dozen people doing AV in the background, so everybody watching the stream applaud. [silence] That was the that was the response I expected. If you're watching in the room on the stream, you'll hear that same pitiful ask for applause about a minute later. Because... we cache because we care. Also, thank you all for showing up. I really do appreciate that there's no conference without an audience. So just to prove to the streamers there's an audience, please give yourself a round of applause. [audience]

You're actually missing out on something if you're only doing this at home. All right, We did have a special request this year. We are dedicating some of this to the memory of Crystal Coffman, who was a fellow Pacific North Westerner and was the lead for Caterpillar's CSIRT Threat hunt team. So we just wanted to make sure that we gave that acknowledgement this year. And finally, if you need help... I took my badge off because it makes the clanky noises when I use the microphone... you're looking for an orange lanyard for volunteers. They are signaling that they are here to help. There's also an info e-mail, which we actually do check on site sometimes. But if you're here, you know,

please check in with folks if you need assistance on pretty much any little thing, including like, wait, this building's a little weird. I've only been here once. Where are the stairs? There are stairs. You don't have to take the elevator unless you absolutely need to. And the most important part... is to be kind and have fun, which has been happening the entire time I've been here. So that's been a great experience. Actually getting out of our various hybrid work situations and coming to interact with people we probably have only met through e-mail or 2D, like Brady Bunch scenarios and chat. This has been good. All right, now we're going to get to the part you were really here for, which is our keynote address, and that's going to bring Kees

Cook up to the stage, so give him a round of applause while we get everything plugged in.