Blue Team Con 2024: Career Village, ICS Hacking, and conference Tips

Summary On-site, hands on training, labs and presentations with a defender-focus were on display at the 2024 Blue Team Con held in Chicago, Illinois. More training, (new) labs, and several ICS events. Introduction Blue Team Con (“BTC”) just celebrated its fourth year “bringing cybersecurity defenders together”. Held in Chicago, IL, the convention featured two days […]

Designing Ethical Cyber-Physical Industrial Systems

Morals I didn’t understand why anyone would talk about ethics for robots: it’s a machine or group of machines controlled by 1s and 0s. It just didn’t click until I read the Aeon article [3].Smart Autonomous Robots, with the ability to learn, need to be guided to make desirable choices. In other words, SARs need […]

Sexual Assault in the Time of the Internet of Things

Content Advisory While the focus of this paper is technology, specifically the security of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, it touches on technology’s relationship to sexual and domestic abuse and assault. There are no sexually explicit descriptions and discussion is kept to legal, technical or social implications of the content. Disclaimer As I started researching […]