Program

Name: Black Alps 2023
Start: 2023-11-02
End: 2023-11-03
Location: La Marive, Yverdon-les-Bains

Cutting Edge Technical Talks... and more!

#BlackAlps23 program has been prepared by an independent committee.

All sub-events are at La Marive, Yverdon-les-Bains, except the Networking dinner.

Thursday November 2nd, 2023

08:30 - 09:00	LIVE Welcome and coffee
09:15 - 09:45	LIVE [Keynote] Unveiling the Express Lane to Catastrophe: Insights from Extensive Security Testing(en) Florian Badertscher (Bug Bounty Switzerland AG )
09:45 - 10:30	LIVE Needles in the Haystack: A Heuristics-based Approach to Vulnerability Discovery(en) Matt Hand (Prelude) Jack Ullrich (SpecterOps)
11:00 - 11:45	LIVE YouShallNotPass! Hardening CI/CD pipelines on mission critical environments(en) Pierre Dumont (Kudelski Security ) Romain Aviolat (Kudelski Security )
11:45 - 12:30	LIVE XORtigate: zero-effort, zero-expense, 0-day on Fortinet SSL VPN(en) Charles Fol (Lexfo )
14:15 - 15:00	LIVE Ghidriff: Ghidra Binary Diffing Engine(en) John Mac (ClearSecLabs )
15:00 - 15:45	LIVE Quantum Computing Doomsday Planning: Is Your Organisation Ready?(en) Jean-Philippe Aumasson (Taurus) Farida Aclimandos (EPFL)
16:15 - 17:00	LIVE Sideloading Serenade: A Symphony of .NET Payload Techniques"(en) Nick Powers (SpecterOps ) Steven Flores (SpecterOps )
17:00 - 17:45	LIVE Caviar Scammers: The Sophisticated Operations of the SturgeonPhisher APT Group(en) Damien Schaeffer
18:00 - 23:30	LIVE Networking dinner Salle des quais (Grandson)

Friday November 3rd, 2023

08:30 - 09:00	LIVE Travel
09:00 - 09:15	LIVE Opening Words(en) Sylvain Pasini (HEIG-VD, president of Black Alps )
09:15 - 09:45	LIVE [Keynote] Unleash the engineer within: Culture eats policy for breakfast(en) Fred Blaise (Thomson Reuters)
09:45 - 10:30	LIVE Unraveling the Challenges of Reverse Engineering Flutter Applications(en) Axelle Apvrille (Fortinet)
11:00 - 11:45	LIVE A Security Research Journey: how the mobile industry met hackers in the middle(en) David Rogers MBE (Copper Horse Ltd ) Roger Brown (GSMA)
11:45 - 12:30	LIVE Command-line Obfuscation Detection Using Large Language Models(en) Michael Adam Polak (Cisco ) Vojtech Outrata (Cisco )
12:30 - 14:15	LIVE Lunch
14:15 - 15:00	LIVE Cyber incident reportings : common obligations within organisations(en) Pauline Meyer (University of Lausanne ) Sylvain Métille (University of Lausanne )
15:00 - 15:45	LIVE Defeating VPN Always-On(en) Maxime Clementz (PwC Luxembourg )
15:45 - 16:15	LIVE Coffe Break
16:15 - 17:00	LIVE Infiltrating Kubernetes: A Comprehensive Study of Attack Scenarios and Security Measures(en) Magno Logan (Trend Micro )
17:00 - 17:45	LIVE Rump Session(fr-en) Several speakers
17:45 - 19:00	LIVE Aperitif
19:00 - 23:00	LIVE CTF (La Marive) Mandatory registration Welcome at 18:45 Start at 19:15 End at 23:30 Awards at 23:45	LIVE Black Alps Dinner

Legend

Conference

Keynote

Talk in the track "lessons learned"

Evening

Talk selection process

A call for proposal (CFP) was organized. The program committee was in charge to select the talks (except the keynotes and rumps). The submission process is now closed (it was open until January 1, 2000.).

Program committee

The program committee is composed of international renowned experts in the field.

Nicolas Oberli, Blackalps (chair)
Ange Albertini, Corkami
Axelle Apvrille, Fortinet
Gynvael Coldwind, HexArcana
Michał "Redford" Kowalczyk
Sylvain Pelissier, SICPA
Christophe Tafani-Dereeper
Candid Wüest, xorlab

Proposal topics

Application security
Vulnerability research and exploits development
Penetration testing and red teaming
Cloud security
Security automation
Network security
Intrusion detection and monitoring
Cryptography

Conference 2023

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