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DEF CON 33

 

It was important to us to bring the AIxCC competition and experience to DEF CON not only because it is the world’s largest cybersecurity conference, but also because the DEF CON community is known for its passion, skill, and curiosity. In short, DEF CON is a platform for inspiring and advancing the state of the art – and that is exactly what the AIxCC program is all about. Security researchers, cyber professionals, policy makers and CTF powerhouses, thousands of attendees filled the AIxCC experience to learn all about the technological advances accelerated by the competition, understand the stakes of automated cybersecurity, and join in the effort to help secure critical infrastructure.

Transportation narrative walls, AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Transportation narrative walls, AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Showing how AIxCC technology can help secure critical infrastructure at the transportation forensic wall, AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Showing how AIxCC technology can help secure critical infrastructure at the transportation forensic wall, AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
A glimpse of the Team Shellphish booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
A glimpse of the Team Shellphish booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Exploring the Team Lacrosse (SIFT) booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Exploring the Team Lacrosse (SIFT) booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Health care narrative walls at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Health care narrative walls at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Unveiling CRS for securing communication infrastructure at the communication forensic wall, AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Unveiling CRS for securing communication infrastructure at the communication forensic wall, AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
The AI Cyber Challenge Experience at DEF CON 33
The AI Cyber Challenge Experience at DEF CON 33
Inside the 42-b3yond-6ug booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Inside the 42-b3yond-6ug booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Side shot of the 42-b3yond-6ug booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Side shot of the 42-b3yond-6ug booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Team Lacrosse (SIFT) at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Team Lacrosse (SIFT) at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Snapshot of Team Shellphish at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Snapshot of Team Shellphish at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Congratulating third-place team Theori at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Congratulating third-place team Theori at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Honoring second-place team Trail of Bits at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Honoring second-place team Trail of Bits at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Celebration moment of first place Team Atlanta at the AI Cyber Challenge Competition
Celebration moment of first place Team Atlanta at the AI Cyber Challenge Competition
Team Atlanta, the first-place team, holding a $4 million check on the DEF CON stage
Team Atlanta, the first-place team, holding a $4 million check on the DEF CON stage
Whole Team Atlanta on the stage with their $4 million prize
Whole Team Atlanta on the stage with their $4 million prize
Third-place team Theori receiving their $1.5 million prize
Third-place team Theori receiving their $1.5 million prize
Second-place team Trail of Bits receiving their $3 million prize
Second-place team Trail of Bits receiving their $3 million prize
Catching team 42-b3yond-6ug at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Catching team 42-b3yond-6ug at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Congratulating first place Team Atlanta at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Congratulating first place Team Atlanta at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Catching team ALL YOU NEED IS A FUZZING BRAIN at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
Catching team ALL YOU NEED IS A FUZZING BRAIN at their booth at AIxCC Experience, DEF CON 33
DARPA Information Innovation Office Director Dr. Kathleen Fisher delivering insights on the AIxCC stage at DEF CON 33
DARPA Information Innovation Office Director Dr. Kathleen Fisher delivering insights on the AIxCC stage at DEF CON 33
First, second, and third-place trophies for the AIxCC competition at DEF CON 33
First, second, and third-place trophies for the AIxCC competition at DEF CON 33

Photo Credit: DARPA | Matt Dombro

Securing Our Critical Infrastructure
Securing Our Critical Infrastructure

Patching Critical Infrastructure: Announcing the Winners of DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge

Andrew Carney, AIxCC Program Manager;
Stephen Winchell, DARPA Director;
Jim O’Neill, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services

AIxCC Stage Talks

From Data to Discovery

Jennifer Roberts, Ph.D., Resilient Systems Mission Office Director;
Andy Kilianski, Ph.D., Program Manager and acting Health Science Futures Mission Office Deputy Director;
Ross Ulrich, DMD, MBA, Program Manager;
Andrew Carney, AIxCC Program Manager (moderator)

Driving Tech Forward

Alexei Bulazel, Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council Senior Director for Cyber;
Perri Adams, Fellow, Institute for Security, Technology, and Society at Dartmouth College

State of the Evals: Lessons from U.S. CAISI's Evaluations of Cyber Capabilities and Security in AI Models

Maia Hamin, Member of Technical Staff, U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI)

The CMS.gov OSPO One Year Later: Launching the Agency’s First Bug Bounty!

Remy DeCausemaker, Open Source Lead, Digital Service at CMS.gov;
Keith Busby, Acting CISO, Office of Information Technology at CMS.gov;
Leah Siskind, AI Fellow, FDD.org; Casey Ellis, Founder, Bugcrowd;
Zwink, Hacker

AI in OT Should be Cheaper Than in IT

Daryl Haegley, Technical Director, Air Force & Space Force Control Systems Cyber Resiliency

Orchestrating the Reasoners

Kudu Dynamics LLC
Ken Harding, Competitor Interface Lead;
Jeff Casavant, Maintainer Interface Lead;
Scott Lee, Scoring & Challenge Research Lead;
Jon Silliman, Researcher Interfaces Lead;
Isaac Goldthwaite, Challenge Design Lead;
Nicholas Vidovich (moderator)

The Challenge with Designing Challenging Challenges

David Brumley, Scoring Advisor / CEO, Mayhem Security;
Isaac Goldthwaite, Challenge Design Lead, Kudu Dynamics LLC;
Tim Allison, Challenge Author & OSS Maintainer, Rhapsode Consulting;
David Wank, Challenge Author, Assistant Staff MIT Lincoln Labs;
Sierra Haex, Challenge Author, Cromulence;
Matt Turek, Deputy Director, DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (moderator)

The Human's Guide to Understanding AIxCC

Mark Griffin, Founder, Undaunted Development LLC

Challenges and Lessons from the AIxCC Journey: A Perspective from 42-b3yond-6ug

Xinyu Xing, professor/President, Northwestern University / B3YOND

All You Need Is a Fuzzing Brain: A Retrospective

Jeff Huang, Professor, Texas A&M University;
Ze Sheng, Graduate student, Texas A&M University;
Qingxiao Xu, Graduate student, Texas A&M University;
Matthew Woodcock, Undergraduate student, Texas A&M University

Team Atlanta’s Takeaways from DARPA's AIxCC

Taesoo Kim, VP at Samsung Research and Professor at Georgia Tech

Testing 1, 2, 3 Testing: Automatically Finding and Fixing Software Vulnerabilities at Scale and Speed

Dr. David Musliner, Staff, SIFT & Dr. Matt McLure, Researcher, SIFT

ARTIPHISHELL Intelligence

Wil Gibbs and Lukas Dresel, Shellphish

“Robo Duck” Architecture

Tyler Nighswander, Theori

Buckle Up, Buttercup - Our Experience Competing in AIxCC

Michael D. Brown, Principal Security Engineer and Head of AI/ML Security Research, Trail of Bits

Autonomous System Demo

Mike Walker, Senior Director at Microsoft Research

An Update from the LLM Scaling Laws Frontier

Jason Clinton, CISO, Anthropic

The Path Towards Self-Defending Systems

Heather Adkins, Google

Security Research: OpenAI's reflections and direction

Ian Brelinsky, Program Staff;
Matt Knight, Vice President;
Dave Aitel, Technical Staff

Applying DevSecOps Lessons to MLSecOps

Christopher Robinson, Chief Security Architect, OpenSSF;
Sarah Evans, Security Research Program Lead, Dell Technologies;
Eoin Wickens, Director of Threat Intelligence, HiddenLayer;
Jeff Diecks, Technical Project Manager, OpenSSF (moderator)

DEF CON attendees explored our interactive experience throughout the conference. Here's what they were able to do:

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Meet the Teams

The seven finalist teams will be present in our experience during the weekend to show attendees how their CRSs work and answer their questions.

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Learn the Stakes of Securing Critical Infrastructure

Dive into realistic cyberattack scenarios for five different sectors to understand what can happen if we don’t advance tools and processes to secure these systems at the speed and scale required.

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Talk to Competition Experts

Meet the competition organizers and other technical experts to find out how they built the competition, how the teams performed, and what we learned from the final round.

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Interact with Competition Data

Explore competition visualizations and data at your own pace on our interactive tablets. Experts will be nearby to answer questions.

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Support the Transition

Explore what’s next for these systems and how they may transition to widespread use. Talk to experts about efforts in specific sectors and find out how you can support the transition.

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Catch a Stage Talk

Check out our robust schedule of relevant talks happening all weekend.
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Talk to DARPA & ARPA-H

AIxCC’s organizers will be available in the experience to discuss the program and future of this technology as well as related programs in the agencies’ portfolios.

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Talk to the Collaborators

AIxCC’s private sector collaborators including Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI will also be available to discuss their most advanced AI models and contributions to the competition.