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Autonomous Hacking: The New Frontiers of Attack and Defense

Vulnerability analysis has largely been a process that requires substantial human expertise. However, very recently there has been a push for completely autonomous hacking systems, which can find flaws, exploit them and even provide patches, all without any human intervention. This talk presents recent advances in autonomous hacking and provides lessons learned from participating in the DARPA CGC.

Speaker

Giovanni Vigna (@lastlinelabs)

CTO, Lastline

Dr. Giovanni Vigna has been researching and developing security technology for more than 20 years, working on malware analysis, web security, vulnerability assessment and intrusion detection. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UCSB and the director of the Center for CyberSecurity at UCSB. He is also the CTO at Lastline, Inc., a company that focuses of protecting enterprises from advanced malware. He is known for organizing and running an annual inter-university Capture The Flag hacking contest that involves dozens of institutions and hundreds of students around the world. He also leads the Shellphish hacking team, who participated in a number of DefCon CTFs, winning in 2005, and recently qualifying for the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge.

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