Category: Events & Community Engagement

Hacking the Human Voice: Our 1st Place Win at DEF CON’s Battle of the Bots

How do you build a bot that can out-talk human judgement in real time? At DEF CON’s first Battle of the Bots, we put ours to the test, and won. Team DirectDefense, consisting of Matt Bangert and Michael Tomlinson, were selected to compete in DEF CON’s first ever Battle of the Bots: Vishing Edition; a… Read more »

Apex Labs – DirectDefense’s Greg Leonard to Instruct SANS Institute Secure DevOps Course

Students will learn the fundamentals of DevOps and how DevOps teams can build and deliver secure software.  In a time when the drive for technology efficiencies has left security in the dust, organizations focused on developing code are now starting to realize the true importance of what secure DevOps means. DevOps security or DevSecOps is… Read more »