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Adversary Village at DEF CON 34 - Kick-off Keynote

DEF CON 34 · Panel Discussion

Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas · 7 August 2026

Adversary Village Kick-off Keynote at DEF CON 34

At DEF CON 34 Abhijith kicked off Adversray Village with the opening keynote panel, the session that sets the tone for a full weekend of offensive cyber secuirty and adversary simulation focused talks, workshops, tool demos, and hands-on activities at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

He moderated the panel featuring Bryson Bort, CEO and Founder of SCYTHE and co-founder of ICS Village, Sanne Maasakkers, Threat intelligence analyst at Mandiant (Google), and Adam Pennington, ATT&CK lead at MITRE Corporation. The panel covered the evolving adversary landscape, the intersection of threat intelligence and adversary emulation, and what the community needs to stay ahead of real-world threat actors, opening the conversation for the sessions that followed across the village's creator stage, workshop stage, and tool demo areas.

For the full speaker line-up and program, see the Adversary Village at DEF CON 34 page.

On the kick-off keynote panel

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