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Meet the Feds

Jim Christy

Jim Christy and Federal Law Enforcement Panel explores meet the feds at DEF CON 13, examining law-enforcement and practical defenses.

Summary

Architecture and Background

Jim Christy and various other Feds, Meet the Fed A unique opportunity to surrender and confess all of your crimes to law enforcement agents from multiple federal and possibly international agencies. Jim Christy, Federal Law Enforcement Panel contextualize these mechanics within the broader policy landscape.

Vulnerability Analysis

The technical analysis investigates threat vectors and design shortcomings related to law-enforcement, federal-policy, cyber-warfare, compliance.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

Jim Christy and various other Feds, Meet the Fed A unique opportunity to surrender and confess all of your crimes to law enforcement agents from multiple federal and possibly international agencies. The "Meet the Fed" Panel is again chaired by Special Agent Jim Christy, Director of the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Institute. Jim will have on his panel representatives from: * Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DoD) * The Internal Revenue Service (IRS - always a favorite) * General Accounting Office (GAO) * US Postal Service * Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) * National Security Agency (NSA) (2) If you don't want to confess yourself, you can certainly drop a dime on one of the other DEF CON attendees.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

Defenders and researchers are provided actionable defensive mitigations, monitoring telemetry, and configuration safeguards to minimize systemic risk.

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