Black Hat attendees can easily find in the Arsenal new inventiveness: be it for using a programming language they are not familiar with yet, be inspired by a tool architecture, grasp the insight of the projects and what they address or be exposed and get interested in an infosec topic completely new to them. On the contrary, Arsenal tools are demoed with live commentary and are usually easier to understand because they normally weaponize already known issues or they nicely integrate many different useful features in one standalone security framework. This is understandable because it is unlikely that in few hours, without the proper preliminary knowledge, it is feasible to reach the same results of months of research of a team of very competent and motivated hackers -). They are, therefore, the extraordinary achievements of months of research of a team of highly skilled and passionate self-employed, academic, professional hackers that are willing to share their results.įrom an attendee's perspective (be it security practitioner, penetration tester, a security researcher in another IT security area, etc.), there is often an impressive steep learning curve to completely grasp the root cause of the vulnerabilities, their detailed exploitation steps and to reproduce it in a timely fashion on its own. The Briefings are very technical presentations that have the ultimate goal of predicting upcoming trends in various infosec topics like hardware and software exploitation, privacy concerns, platform security, practical cryptography, and malware analysis. My personal experience was amazing because I met tons of cool infosec people in just 2 days and despite being on my own at the conference, I haven't felt alone. The differences I will point out are the key reasons why the Arsenal does exist along with the Trainings, Business Hall and Briefings.īlack Hat events are the major series of security conferences in the world (located in USA, Europe, Asia) and one of the best opportunities to meet hackers, security researchers, security executives and security practitioners from all over the world. In this post, I'll try to highlight the peculiarities of the Arsenal compared to the Business Hall and the Briefings. For this, I would like to thank team members in advance because the Arsenal is possible thanks to their dedicated passion over a decade of volunteering. The past week I had the chance to attend Black Hat Europe for my first time and demo my tool.
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