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Alon Friedman is a Principal Security Architect at Microsoft 365 Defender, with extensive experience in application security and penetration testing. He focuses on defining application security standards and researching threat landscapes. His background includes leading secure software development at Salesforce and managing application vulnerabilities at PayPal. Alon is a recognized researcher, credited with CVE-2014-4246 and the creation of the SCIP OWASP ZAP extension

Dustin Heywood, otherwise known as EvilMog has been in the Cybersecurity Industry for close to 2 decades. He is an Executive Managing Hacker and Senior Technical Staff Member for IBM X-Force, a member of "Team Hashcat", and a Bishop of the "Church of Wifi".EvilMog is a world champion Hacker Jeopardy Player, and a holder of multiple "Black Badges" including DEFCON, THOTCON, and CypherCon.

Throughout his 25-year career in the IT field, Eric has sought out and held a diverse range of roles. Currently the Chief Identity Architect for Semperis; Eric previously was a member of the Security Research and Product teams. Prior to Semperis, Eric worked as a Security and Identity Architect at Microsoft partners, spent time working at Microsoft as a Sr. Premier Field Engineer, and spent almost 15 years in the public sector, with 10 of them as a technical manager.Eric is a Microsoft MVP for security, recognized for his expertise in the Microsoft identity ecosystem. His security research has also been recognized by Microsoft, most notably for his findings he dubbed “UnOAuthorized”. Eric is a strong proponent of knowledge sharing and spends a good deal of time sharing his insights and expertise at conferences as well as through blogging. Eric further supports the professional security and identity community as an IDPro member, working as part of the IDPro Body of Knowledge committee.

Dr. Gregory Carpenter is Principal Partner at CW PENSEC and a retired U.S. Army officer with over two decades of operational experience spanning intelligence, counterintelligence, electronic warfare, deception, and security testing. He previously served in senior roles across joint and interagency environments and was recognized as NSA Operations Officer of the Year for his work in advanced operational analysis and mission execution.Dr. Carpenter’s professional focus centers on adversary modeling and the failure modes of trust, identity, and attribution under adaptive threat pressure. His work examines how emerging technologies—including cyber-physical systems, in vivo and nano-scale technologies, automation, and information operations—alter attacker behavior and invalidate long-standing defensive assumptions. He has led and advised offensive and defensive programs across cyber, information, and electronic warfare domains, with particular emphasis on how identity collapses when human operators are no longer stable or external to the systems they access.At conferences and in research settings, Dr. Carpenter translates complex adversary behavior into practical defensive insight, emphasizing how organizations must redesign identity, access control, and trust models for environments where compromise is expected rather than exceptional. He has presented at DEF CON’s Misinformation Village (2023), Adversary Village (2025), and the DEF CON Creator Stage (2024, 2025).

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Rahul is a security researcher with 7+ years in offensive security and red teaming. He specializes in malware development, AV/EDR evasion, and bypassing security controls in heavily defended environments. As a full-time red teamer, he's built tools and developed techniques that work against real-world security stacks.He currently works as Manager of Offensive Security and Threat Assessment with leading financial organizations across the Middle East, collaborating with red, blue, and purple teams to find and fix security gaps in enterprise infrastructure. He's spoken at international conferences including BlackHat, CONFidence, and HAcktivity.His expertise spans enterprise security and cloud infrastructure, with particular focus on identifying and exploiting design flaws in hardened environments.

Yuan Yudistira is the Head of Information Security at Siloam Hospitals Group, where he leads enterprise cybersecurity and digital risk strategy across 41 hospitals. He works closely with executive leadership to enable secure digital health transformation, secure cloud adoption, data protection, and operational resilience in large, complex healthcare environments.With over 12 years of experience spanning information security leadership, cloud architecture, and risk governance, Yuan has led initiatives aligned with NIST Cybersecurity Framework and ISO 27001 to strengthen cyber resilience, protect sensitive health data, and support scalable, cloud-first healthcare operations. He is a CISSP and CISM certified professional and a published book author on practical cybersecurity and risk management for organizations.