Conferences

- Second-time attendee: returned to OWASP Global AppSec USA at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco.
- Attended "Exploits of Agency" by Dan Lisichkin on insecure development patterns in AI agents.
- Met Adam Shostack, threat modeling pioneer who helped make STRIDE the industry standard.

- First-time RSAC attendee: experienced the flagship cybersecurity conference in San Francisco.
- Attended the OWASP AI Security Summit track on GenAI agents and autonomous risk.
- Followed sessions on AI red teaming, LLM Top 10, and emerging Agentic Security Top 10.

- First time attendee: awarded the prestigious student's scholarship for BlackHat 2024.
- Enhanced my knowledge on latest open source tools, technology at Arsenal and Business Hall.
- Networked with cybsec professionals from different companies and sponsors.

- explored Linux memory vulnerabilities with Ofri Ouzan, covering outdated and latest techniques, binary hardening, and real-world examples.
- learnt to design secure cloud architecture with Nathan Case, focusing on best practices & implementation.
- discovered the benefits of client-side application layer encryption with Wias Issa for securing cloud data.

- attended "Defending Against API Attacks" by Hitesh B and learnt about OWASP's top 10 API threats.
- participated in the fun class of "Initial Actions on Active Directory Targets" by Tinker Secor and
learnt active directory dumps, SYSVOL access and and discovering hidden remnants.
- networked with leading cybersecurity professionals and experts from various companies.
- won a book, 'The Art of Cyberwarfare' for collecting all the stamps.