hello everyone
welcome to arduino village at defcon 29
my name is abhijit i'm the founder and
organizer of advocacy village at def con
conference this year
so what is advocacy village so just to
give a quick intro about arduino village
so we are a community with pure focus on
to address the simulation emulation
addressing tactics addressing life
adversity stories advisory philosophy
uh urban survival skills and a bit of
property
so i would say
uh there is no globally
agreed uh standard definition for
advocacy simulation or emulation so we
are all approaching uh this concept or
in a in a different manner right we are
approaching them in a different manner
every time right so i had uh addresses
simulation emulation or threat
termination they're basically the same
concept but i mentioned before uh they
are being approached in a different way
you know so that's how people or
organizations are defending them you
know based on how they approach these
concepts
unlike of a full scope team engagement
addressing simulation is a bit different
so the simulation exercises they always
focuses on
mimicking the actions of a well-known
adversary or well-known threat actor or
tactics of an adversary right so that is
the the basic element of adversary
emulation or addresses simulation
adversity simulation could be
a continuous process it would help
organizations to
uh deal with an actual attack or a
threat actor in a good good
manner right
so i would do one thing i i could
compare uh addresses simulation to
martial art uh let's take karate for an
example so what is the purpose of a
martial art so that will strengthen your
body that will strengthen your mind in a
continuous process right finally you get
into a tournament or you get into a
real life maybe a street fight so you
could defend yourself in a pretty good
manner right so if you are getting into
a tournament you can also attack your
opponent right so that's how that's a
that's a purpose of a martial art so
i would compare addresses simulation
exercises to martial art
uh as i mentioned before like you know
when you get into your martial art uh
the very first thing you don't get to
fight your opponent on your first day at
a dojo or on a character right so you
get to the master will teach you how to
take a fall you know how to fall on your
back how to follow on your feet right
the very next thing would be
uh they will teach you uh hardening
exercises how to harden your body right
then uh then uh there will be uh attack
movements so you get to they'll teach
you how to find someone either to you
they will teach you how to you know
block uh your entire opponent's attacks
step like the different karate moves are
there hundreds of karate moves are there
right
all that is done
uh then there would be a sequence of cat
attacks they would call us uh cody just
cut us right
here we could compare the addressing
tactics as character movement
and the combination of character
movements which is a cutout can be
compared as attack simulation scenario
right
we know that different type of
addressing tactics form together to
create an attack scenario right
so let's take an example
of what what happens after you learn the
character movements and uh
or scenarios so you you get to fight
with someone right
so you will be uh getting
a sparring opponent a sparring friend
maybe someone from the same dojo some of
your friends or a colleague so you get
to carry out all these attack movements
against your opponent your sparring part
so in that way
you can fine tune all of your attack
tactics let's say uh your attack
movements
you know then you get to better yourself
right you get to better your attack
tactics or different tactics right
let's say
uh the character tournament is there so
what would karate tournament
uh or kumite so you could mention that
as uh compare that to
uh threat intel powered uh advocacy
emulation how is that
that means uh we know how we i mean when
he's going to be a tournament or who is
going to be your opponent right so you
get to fight against that you get to
fight against that person
in that case you get to train
to defend that person right
or you get to train yourself to
perform better the tournament
right
so then take an example of uh
a state fact or you are getting into a
real or someone is trying to attack you
on the street or something right so you
could compare that with an actual team
engagement if a organization
uh is getting interesting without having
proper defenses without having proper
attack tactics or different tactics
right that organization going to get
bullied pretty hard right that is on
side of it
so in that case if the organizations are
trained well uh using addressing
simulations you know uh trying to get uh
you know the betterment of their
different mechanisms when they get into
a straight fight they can defend
themselves pretty easily and maybe if
they are they are
trying to fall back out for on their
backs you can they can come up pretty
easily right so this would be a perfect
example to
explain addresses simulation right
so let's just say uh cannot a or any
other martial art digits or boxing when
it comes to certain self-defense they're
all going towards a certain goal right
similar to that adversary emulation or
simulation or threat termination they're
all going towards the same goal right
the betterment of our cyber defense
systems and uh you know betterment of
new addressing tactics or ttps right so
that would be a perfect example to
explain addresses solution to someone in
in an easy scenario with an easy
scenario right finally the goal of our
district village would be
uh to build a strong community of
researchers and organizations who are
putting together new means and
methodologies towards address
dissemination or
submission tactics
uh here our community our district
village can be considered as a character
dojo where all the offensive security
researchers or artistry could come in
share their knowledge collaborate on
different products different projects
and
you know sharpen their abrasive tactics
or ttps so that is on uh door of arduous
village
then uh now we can uh go back to the
argenta of adversary village this year
uh we are totally visual uh
at def con 29 there are going to be 24
talks
four different workshops three panel
discussions and on awesome ctf named
address rewards
and our schedule is going to be
uh starting from august 6 7 8
and the timing is going to be 10 am from
morning to 8 in the night
just it note that our timing is based on
pdt time so
all of these talks and workshops will be
streamed uh by our teach our youtube
channels just make sure to uh follow us
on twitter youtube and teach so that you
will be receiving the proper
notification when we start with all
these events
also one more point i had all the q a
sessions or interactive session will be
held in defcon official discord server
just make sure to join our defcon
official discord server so that you can
interact with the speakers after every
talk
so having said that i would like to
thank jeff moss our village goon kevin
and the entire deafcon community for
this opportunity i would like to thank
our mentors our supporters our awesome
volunteers and our sponsors
uh uh anand from not so secure daniel
from zero point security and martin from
uh cover
and also i would like to thank the
entire adversary community enter hacker
community who is going to be there at
defcon this year
enjoy your disability this year thank
you everyone see you next time