Visual Summary of SANS Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2025

On Tuesday, October 28, and Wednesday, October 29, attendees joined us in Austin, TX or tuned in Live Online for the first-ever SANS Hack & Defend Summit! For our guests joining us in-person, we ran two simultaneous tracks—Offense and Defense—so at any given time, they could choose their mission.

We invited Ashton Rodenhiser of Mind's Eye Creative to create graphic recordings of our Summit presentations. If you missed a talk or are looking to view the Summit through a visual lens, take a look at the recordings below.

*If you registered for the Summit, video recordings are available on your Summit Access page in your SANS Portal.

Keynote | Day 1 | The Augmented Era: Disrupt or Be Disrupted

Pedram Amini, Chief Scientist, OPSWAT

Blue Team | High-Fidelity Threat Hunting: Unveiling Insider Threats Beyond the Logs...The Dual-Identity Evasion Technique

Oscar Cárcamo, Senior Consultant at a Canadian firm

Blue Team | From Exploit to Enterprise Risk: Scaling Purple Team Insights to Protect the Mission

Anthony Switzer, Cybersecurity Executive, EY

Blue Team | The Hunt for Silent Compromise: Detecting Cloud-Native Persistence Without Malware or Alerts

Ankit Gupta, Senior Security Engineer, Exeter Finance LLC

Shilpi Mittal, Lead IT Security Engineer at Tyson Foods Inc.

Red Team | From DPAPI to AppBound: Looting Credentials on Modern Web Browsers

Melvin Mejia, Senior Red Team Operator at Pentraze Cybersecurity

Red Team | The Current State and Future of AI’s Role in Vulnerability Research and Offensive

Stephen Sims, Faculty Fellow, SANS Institute

Red Team | Living Off the Crash: Weaponizing System-Generated Crash Dumps

Jason Mull, Team Lead, Security Operations at Lockstep Technology Group

Red Team Keynote | Day 2 | Red Teaming Vibes: Offensive Security in the Age of Vibe Coding

Marcus J. Carey, Principal Research Scientist at Reliaquest

Red Team | Subverting macOS Applications and Security Controls through 0-Day Vulnerabilities

Carlos Garrido, Red Team Operations Leader, Pentraze Cybersecurity

Red Team | When Attackers Tune In: Weaponizing LLM Fine-Tuning for Stealthy C2 and Exfiltration

Bar Matalon, Threat Intelligence Team Lead, Palo Alto Networks

Noa Dekel, Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst, Palo Alto Networks

Red Team | MEDSHIELD: Proactive Threat Modeling Framework for Connected IoT Care

Dr. Jennifer Schieferle Uhlenbrock, Healthcare Cybersecurity Consultant, Provisio Insights, LLC

Dr. Deepti Gupta, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University-Central Texas

Blue Team Keynote | Day 2 | SOC of the Future…the Future Is Now

Carson Zimmerman, Chief Architect, Microsoft’s Security Operations Center

Intelligence-Driven Defense: Lessons from Building Threat Intel for the Real World

Gilmar Esteves, Head of Products and Technical Program Manager, Apura Cyber Corp

If you'd like to check out our other upcoming Summits, you can view the latest listing here.