RVAsec 2025 Video: Justin Varner
Chief of Innovation – RadZen Inc
Title: Oh Hotel No!: How A Helpless Hooligan Helped A Homie From Homelessness To Homeownership In 9 Months
This is the story of a hooligan and his fascination with exploiting physical and digital vulnerabilities in hotels for the purposes of persistent access, living off the land, and surreptitiously housing homeless people.
RVAsec 2025 Video: Bobby N. Turnage, Jr.
Attorney & Cybersecurity and Technology Team Leader – Sands Anderson PC
Title: Data Breach Management and Legal Issues for Information Technology Professionals
Please join us for a practical discussion (without the legalese!) about data breach management and minimizing the risk to your organization. In this discussion, we’ll talk through what it’s like to be in a breach situation, and we’ll cover some practical and legal considerations and suggestions that will help your organization achieve a better outcome.
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RVAsec 2025 Video: Morgan Stuart
Data Scientist and Engineer – Canopy Nine, LLC
Title: Large Language Models for Hackers
Wield your own AI agents, for fun and profit, with open-weight Large Language Models. In this talk, the audience will learn the foundational data science that empowers LLMs to help…and hallucinate, before diving into a tutorial on “agentic” LLM techniques. Along the way, key concepts and methods are related to NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework (NIST AI 600-1) and their adversarial machine learning taxonomy (NIST AI 100-2e2023). Cut through the hype – see the limitations and attack surfaces for yourself, and explore ways you could incorporate these tools into your own practice.
RVAsec 2025 Video: John Stoner
Security Strategist – Google Cloud
Title: Defending Entra ID and Office 365 Using the Prism of GraphRunner
For organizations using Microsoft Entra ID and O365, it’s important to understand the landscape of the Graph API, how data is accessed and the logs available to gain visibility into probes and attacks that are targeting users and their information stores.
To drive this awareness, I’ve chosen to use a red team toolkit called GraphRunner that empowers offensive cyber practitioners an easy to use method to get started probing Microsoft Entra ID and Office 365 tenants. On the flip side of this, we are going to take a look at the logs generated by GraphRunner in a simulated attack chain to better understand what a blue teamer might see and how they can build detections and hunt, not just for GraphRunner, but for suspicious activities occurring within their Entra ID and Office 365 tenant.
RVAsec 2025 Video: Michael Roytman
Co-Founder, CTO – Empirical Security
Title: Cybersecurity is Ready for Local Models
This talk explores how a custom, local AI/ML model can be built internally at an enteprise for cybersecurity decision support. We’ll walk through data, methods, and pitfalls of building your own models rather than using off the shelf or vendor solutions.
RVAsec 2025 Video: Nicholas Popovich
Principal – Rotas Security
Title: Attacking & Defending ServiceNow: A Hands-on Lab for Red & Blue Teams
ServiceNow is a critical enterprise platform, often integrated with sensitive systems and privileged access. This talk explores how attackers can exploit misconfigurations and privilege escalation paths within ServiceNow to gain a foothold in an environment. We’ll walk through real-world attack techniques, from initial access to lateral movement, and demonstrate how defenders can detect and mitigate these threats.
In addition to offensive tradecraft, we’ll cover how to set up a dedicated lab to safely test these attack vectors, fine-tune detections, and improve defensive strategies. Whether you’re a red teamer looking to sharpen your tactics or a blue teamer aiming to strengthen your defenses, this talk will provide actionable insights and practical steps for securing ServiceNow.
RVAsec 2025 Video: Alain Petit
Cyber Security Architect – Capital One
Title: Key Management and Basic Key Usage for Encryption 101
raise your awareness of cybersecurity encryption with a simple analogy: house keys. This presentation breaks down key management and encryption basics, from creation to destruction, using relatable examples.
RVAsec 2025 Video: Qasim Ijaz
Director of Cybersecurity – Aveanna Healthcare
Title: What the Scope? Sh** my Consultant | Client Says
Scoping a penetration test shouldn’t feel like negotiating a hostage situation—but here we are. In this engaging, no-holds-barred session, two seasoned cybersecurity professionals take the stage in a hilarious and painfully relatable discussion, showcasing the absurd, frustrating, and all-too-common conversations between consultants and clients.
Expect real stories, plenty of laughs, and insights that will make you rethink how you approach penetration testing and security assessments. Whether you’re a consultant, security leader, or someone who’s just tired of hearing “We don’t need a pentest”, this talk is for you.
RVAsec 2025 Video: Luke McOmie
VP Offensive Security – Blue Bastion
Title: What the Scope? Sh** my Consultant | Client Says
Scoping a penetration test shouldn’t feel like negotiating a hostage situation—but here we are. In this engaging, no-holds-barred session, two seasoned cybersecurity professionals take the stage in a hilarious and painfully relatable discussion, showcasing the absurd, frustrating, and all-too-common conversations between consultants and clients.
Expect real stories, plenty of laughs, and insights that will make you rethink how you approach penetration testing and security assessments. Whether you’re a consultant, security leader, or someone who’s just tired of hearing “We don’t need a pentest”, this talk is for you.
RVAsec 2025 Video: Kevin Massey
IT Engineering Manager – Winebow
Title: Linux Kernel Exploitation for Beginners
My talk is focused on teaching people how to get into Linux kernel exploitation using Kernel based CTFs as an entry point.
