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CyberThreat is one of the largest cyber security conferences in the UK and aims to deliver the best technical conference for experts in the field. In addition to presentations from world-renowned cyber security experts and rising industry stars, CyberThreat features many hands-on opportunities for in-person delegates in the form of CTF events, team problem solving and hackable badge challenges to create an exclusive and unique experience.
"I really enjoyed the CyberThreat experience and my hats off to you and the team. You all pulled off one hell of a great conference!"
Ryan Nolette, Lead Cloud Security Architect at Arrowstreet Capital
Tailored for security practitioners, this immersive event covers both offensive and defensive disciplines, placing a significant focus on technical aspects. It provides exceptional value to cyber security professionals at all levels, fostering an environment where attendees can share experiences, knowledge, tools and techniques to advance the field.
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Focusing on security practitioners and spanning the full spectrum of offensive and defensive disciplines, the event has a strong technical emphasis, encouraging collaboration on bleeding edge techniques, case studies from the field and new security tools.
CyberThreat is hosted by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and SANS Institute. It evidences the UK Government's commitment to equip practitioners with the skills and knowledge required to defend against cyber threats and also addresses the cyber skills gap, by developing and growing talent.
CyberThreat aims to deliver the best technical conference globally for cyber security practitioners. In addition to presentations from world-renowned cyber security experts and rising industry stars, CyberThreat features many hands-on opportunities for delegates in the form of in-person CTF events.
Allison Wikoff
Director, Global Threat Intelligence - Americas Lead, PwC
Professor Ciaran Martin
Director of CISO Network, SANS
James Lyne
Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, SANS
Kirsten Ward
Threat Intelligence Manager, Accenture
Lina Lau
Founder, XINTRA
Mike S
Technical Director of Operations, NCSC
Paul Chichester
Director of Operations, NCSC
Rob Lee
Fellow, SANS
Stefanie Metka
Head Cyberthreat Branch & Defense Officer, NATO
Simon Vernon
Certified Instructor, SANS
Xena Olsen
Threat Intelligence Manager
450
In-person attendees
3k+
Online attendees
25+
Presentations
CyberThreat 2024 saw us welcome over 450 people in-person and thousands of cyber security practitioners from across the world online, host many talks, and run an elaborate hackable badge challenge!
"Sharing information about what attackers are doing and how to defend against them is such an important part of cyber defence, so a conference like CyberThreat is really important to get everyone together to build those connections and networks."
Richard Horne, CEO NCSC
Other highlights were the capture the flag competition, retro arcade machines and gaming area with super cool flight and car simulators!
As many of you will know, this year's CyberThreat 24 featured brand new Hackable Badges from Secure Impact, with nine fantastic challenges designed to challenge and inspire participants and provoke some fun head scratching!
The solutions for challenges one to seven are available via the video walkthrough below. For the final two challenges, Security Engineer and badge challenge author, Nathan Taylor, has written a step-by-step technical blog to help you solve them. Enjoy!
CyberThreat 2023 saw us welcome over 450 people in-person and thousands of cyber security practitioners from across the world online, host many talks, and run an elaborate hackable badge challenge!
"The whole event was world class."
Graham Bartlett, Senior Technical Leader at Cisco
All participants at CyberThreat are required to agree and adhere to the following code of conduct to help us achieve a safe and positive event experience for everyone. As organisers of this event, the NCSC Team and SANS are dedicated to providing a positive learning and sharing experience for all participants. We there for expect participants to conduct themselves appropriately. Unacceptable behaviour includes intimidating, harassing, abusive, discriminatory, derogatory, or demeaning conduct by any participant at our events or online communities including Twitter and other online media.
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, ethnicity, religion, technology choices, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. If a participant engages in behaviour that violates this code of conduct, the CyberThreat team may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference with no refund.
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of conference staff immediately. If you have any concern about inappropriate behaviour you witness at the event or online, please report this anonymously by emailing cyberthreat@sans.org and we will look into this and respond appropriately. In-person event staff can be identified by EVENT badges or can be found at the Information Desk.