Until We Meet Again
cybersecurity and biomedical technology research for healthcare
Highlights from DEF CON 31
We covered a menagerie of current issues, including hospital infrastructure, medical insurance, cyber insurance, risk management, patient privacy and safety, legal and regulatory requirements, medical access, citizen science, SBOM and full stack vulnerabilities, VR and AI.
Talks are being recorded and will be on our YouTube soon!
Device Lab
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10 MDMs
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15 Devices
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15 Vulnerabilities reported
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Total Attendees: 2209
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Friday: 1121
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Saturday: 1088
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Speaker/Workshops/TTX
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22 Total
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36 Speakers
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1,986 Attendees
Capture the Flag
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692 Players
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597 Challenges
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10,924 High Score
Planning Stats:
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360 days to plan
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2 days to setup
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3 days of conference
People Power:
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10 Planners
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15 Volunteers on site
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Countless hours of excitement
Social Media:
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1 new site
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524 Tweets (but felt like 300Million)
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118 Linkedin posts
Thanks to our Village Partners!
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Voting Village: Biometric Voting Machine
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Policy Village: Hidden Badge Code
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Blue Team Village: Friday TableTop
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ICS Village: CTF Challenges
Thank you to our Pre-Con Partnerships:
DiMe Society, BYOS, Protiviti, HSCC, SLNT, and Medcrypt
Thanks to our 2023 Badge Makers:
"Eye of the Beholder"
Kevin, Carl - BadgePirates and Lee LeeCyborg_
"We Give Your Our Heart"
Caleb Davis So11Deo6loria, Nathan Smith Nate_Sm1th and Mathew Freilich MathewFreilich at Protiviti.
Brilliant job everyone! Thank you for making this an extraordinary year of science and sense. So much gratitude for the investment you have made in the Biohacking Village, the biomedical, cybersecurity researcher, and hacker community. Knowledge was conveyed, thoughts were shared, and the gravity of cybersecurity was palpable this year.
Shout out to the venerable team behind the planning and execution of this village and event:
Nina Alli, Sharka, Scott Hanson, Jay Radcliffe, Jennifer Agüero, Jorge Acevedo Canabal, MD, Lee Wilkins, Jasmine Jackson, Ari and Sydney Swaine-Simon.
The healthcare community learned that there is a greater need for resiliency, contingency plans and backup plans in how it functions. Looking at this pandemic from a biohacking / security researcher point of view, how can we take the lessons learned, pragmatic data, and insight and turn it into actionable knowledge to improve future decisions and outcomes for the biomedical ecosystem as a whole.
As we move forward, this is what we will be exploring this year for our talks, devices, CTF challenges, table tops, and workshops to assist in the fortification of full stack biotechnologists for the future digitalisation of healthcare.