BSidesSLC 2025 Closing Ceremonies – Highlights, Prizes & Sponsor Shoutouts

All right, thanks everyone for coming out. Appreciate it. We're going to go in with the closing ceremonies here. Uh really appreciate the sponsors. Uh Digiert, you know, they provide TLS certificates and more. A lot of great security there. Adobe, really appreciate their partnership and all they do for the cyber security community here in Utah. We got invoke, they provide penetration testing service. Socket helps out with kind of like your devs op pipeline. I believe Red Hat uh you know they got those great cloud services, open source products and you know they're really getting more into the AI ML spaces. Appreciate Compunet and all they do for the community all the IT services and cyber security services

they provide. Appreciate Xention the ISP um and their privacy focus. Pramify for helping us get through our compliance documentation. Orca for helping us secure our cloud. Redpoint for helping us perform penetration testing on applications and more. Cyig for digging into containerized environments and more. Envir for uh essentially they kind of like containerize uh services and processes. Uh so you know even if they get exploited um they can do in-memory analysis for anomalies and detect oays and things like that. Uh and then snow offensive they do a lot of uh pen testing services as well as uh instant response. So appreciate all the sponsors. Thanks for all they do. [Applause]

All right. Um, if you want to continue the conversation after the event is over, please join the Discord. There will be updates in there about next year's events, uh, as well as the event in Cash and the Logan, as well as the event in Southern Utah. So, yeah, join the community, participate, help out with next year's event. Just want to reiterate the top focuses here. Uh, we want to build connections. That was one of the major goals associated with this event. So hopefully you took advantage of that and uh the opportunities with the workshops, the sessions and just get to know your neighbor. uh that helps us grow the cyber security community and help us kind of strengthen

each other in our core mission of securing the world as well as the kind of a side effect of that is helping each other in our careers, lifting each other up and um you know helping us each grow. That's the three C's of uh BIDES. Really appreciate the sponsors. Kind of went through that. They're great. um you know, look forward to uh yeah, working with them more. Okay, so as we previously stated, closing ceremonies, that's what you're at now. You need to be present to win. Um mostly because I can't be relied to ship anything. So So uh and we're going to go over that now. So first and foremost, we have the CTF. Um the CTF winners um we have a prize

for the top team that's five meshtastic kits. We also have prizes for individuals uh the top three individuals. Um these are just some samples uh in order of operation. They can come pick which prize they want. So okay the first pace team is the DC 801 Gremlins. Does someone from that team want to come up and

represent? Great job, guys. That's the five mesh taxes kits. We also got privilege of the Elden Lords and Inactive Directory. They did awesome, too. So, [Applause] Okay. Okay. Yeah. I have a Raspberry Pi for you. Mhm. Sweet. [Applause] Yeah. Uh I I assume that's is that inactive directory or privilege of the one of those? Anyways, there's a Raspberry Pi for the other team if they want to come up too, but no big deal. One, two, three. Okay, top individuals. Easy name to pronounce. NHV Hy. I don't know how to say that. Who? Nivei. Is Nivey present? Nice. [Applause] All right. Great job, man. You crushed it. [Applause] All right, second place we got Mitchen coming up.

Oh, yeah. We'll save one for the sponsors. Yeah. Okay. Sweet. Good choice. [Laughter] You don't want the Princess Peach? My uh my young daughter saw the Princess Peach prize and she was super stoked. She's like, "Can't I have this?" Um, okay. Third place we got Vex. Maybe that's not how you say it. President. Congrats. [Applause]

We've got a kit. We've got Raspberry Pi Raspberry. Solid choice. [Applause] Okay, Honegood and Ben Payne, I got some Raspberry Pies for you if you want to come up. [Applause] That's okay. Not present, don't win. That's okay. Come back next year. Get your Raspberry Pi. Okay, we're going to do the sponsor raffle. We got a sweet flipper zero going on with a Wi-Fi dev board and a case. Uh, pretty legit prize. Um, okay. In order to qualify for this, you had to get a bunch of stamps. I'm gonna let Margie pick a name from the bin. If it's a good name, it's Margie's pick. If it's a bad name, it's my pick. Larry Prey. Larry, are you here? All

right. [Applause] Awesome. Thanks everybody for showing the sponsors some love. But yeah, they really appreciate it. So, um, we do have some random gift cards here. Just as a reminder, if you anybody can use this code BS SLC25 and get 30% off on the no starch website. So, feel free to hit that up. Um, we are going to give out though some random $20 gift cards uh to help out some individuals. I uh vibe coded this super elite application right here. It's going to randomly pick. It is truly random. So I just want to say if an organizer's name gets picked, you you you do not win. Here's here's the source. You can see I was even doing

random.system random. Maybe someone can come audit my code. I was trying to make it more secure, but anyways, it probably isn't. Okay. If an organizer's name gets picked, don't get excited. You're not getting the prize. And if anyone else's name gets picked and they're not there, we're just going to go to the next name. Okay. One, two, three. All right. First name, Maria. Are you

[Applause] here? Okay, sweet. Next name, Brand. Oh, no. You're not getting it, Brandon. None of that. All right. Tyler Billings, are you here? Okay. [Laughter] Damon, are you here? Don't worry. I picked 300 of you, so we got we got plenty. Taylor, are you here? Keep going. All right, Ethan. One, two, three, Bobby, Sam. All right, next time we're just going to throw these in the air, you know, seems more efficient. Austin, sweet. [Applause] Annie. Annie, I heard a loud yah, but I don't see anyone walking. Mitchell, oh, wow. Okay, we'll go to the next. So, all right. Okay Eric. [Music] [Applause] Robert. Uh, I'm not Adeline.

[Applause] Colton, Simon Brett

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[Applause] All right, that's all the gift cards. So, we can get out of this vibe code now. [Music] Sweet. Okay, social media contest. Once again, we are crushing it at social media. There was a whopping two posts this year. One was actually authored by myself, so I'm going to disqualify that individual. Tyler, who's the winner on this? Was it Ryan Reynolds? I'm pretty sure that's his name. Ryan Rollins. Ryan Rollins, are you here? Thank you, Ryan. You made my day. You made my day. [Applause] You don't have to have the princess peach. You can pick any prize.

So, ESP32s in a dev kit like an Arondo dev kit. Sweet. Good [Applause] choice. Okay. MVP prize. Did anyone put anything in the channel about this? Cool. Sounds good. I'm gonna hold that prize for next year. Do you want You want an MVP prize? Is that what I'm hearing? The MVP. Come on up. Come on up. Get a Raspberry Pi. Yeah. Yeah. Here. Raspberry Pi. MVP. MVP. Very good. Very good. Sweet. Job done. All right. Hey, seriously, next year if you see someone who's going above and beyond, uh throw throw like a DM our way. uh let us know and then uh we'll put them in the running for the MVP prize. So we need to

do a slightly better job of that. Uh so uh social media, we talked about that. And just once again, thank you to all of the working group and organizers. Really appreciate you. [Applause] We are going to have a quick uh nonprofit meeting up here in the corner. Anybody who wants to stick around is welcome to stick around for it. Um uh that's the nonprofit that runs these events. Um uh and then once again, just thank you for coming out. Have a great evening. Enjoy your Friday. Enjoy your weekend.