The Honeynet Project Annual Workshop 2024
Copenhagen, Denmark — May 27th–29th, 2024
The Honeynet Project Annual Workshop 2024
We're happy to confirm our first batch of speakers:
Nguyen Anh Quynh is a regular speaker at numerous industrial cybersecurity conferences such as BlackHat USA/Europe/Asia/Middle East, DEFCON, Recon, HackInTheBox, Zeronights, H2HC, NULL, etc. He has also presented his research in academic venues such as Usenix, IEEE, ACM, LNCS. His contribution to the field lays the foundation for various innovative works in the cybersecurity industry and academia. As a passionate coder, Dr. Nguyen is the founder and maintainer of several open-source reversing projects: Capstone, Unicorn & Keystone.
Stanislav Bárta works as head of Network Traffic Analysis Unit at GovCERT.CZ. His team is responsible for network forensics analysis during incident response. Other proactive project of the team covers the areas of honeypot deployment and network threat hunting in the networks of their constituency. He works for Czech governmental CERT since he finished his studies at Brno University od Technology where he got his Master’s Degree in Computer Networks and Communication.
Simone Berni works in Certego, an Italian MDR and TI provider. He is the Backend Maintainer of the IntelOwl platform
Aristofanis Chionis Koufakos is an Offensive Cyber Security Engineer at Danske Bank. He is a GSoC 2023 contributor with the Honeynet Project for the Honeyscanner tool. In December 2023, he presented Honeyscanner at BlackHat Europe in London at the Arsenal section of the event. Aristofanis has a background in software development and an MSc in Computer Science and Cybersecurity from the Technical University of Denmark. His research interests revolve around penetration testing, cyber deception, adversary emulation, and exploit development.
Raj Gopalakrishna is Co-founder and Chief Product Architect at Acalvio. Raj brings 30+ years of R&D experience with most of it in Cybersecurity. Earlier he was SVP and Distinguished Engineer at CA Inc (now Broadcom) and has about 20 patents.
Brian Hay is a member of the Honeynet Project and a researcher at Security Works. He has an interest in virtualization, machine learning, and systems programming. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, and an instructor on a variety of topics in commercial and academic venues.
Maximilian Hils is a Security Engineer at Google. He is one of the main developers of mitmproxy and actively contributes to several other high-profile open-source projects. Starting as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student at The Honeynet Project in 2012, he now is a board member and the host of the previous workshop in Innsbruck. Max received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Ali Ikinci, an IT Security Architect and current CEO of the Honeynet Project, began his programming journey on a Commodore 64. Known for developing the award-winning Monkey-Spider client honeypot, he has contributed to internet security through his work on a web secure gateway at ContentKeeper. Ali is committed to fostering community within the cybersecurity field, promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing through his leadership in the Honeynet Project. His passion for advancing cybersecurity is matched by his dedication to continuous learning and community engagement.
Adel Karimi is a full-stack threat detection engineer on the Detection & Response team at Niantic. Before joining Niantic, he worked as a lead security engineer at Google and Salesforce, hunting for badness! Beyond his day job, Adel channels his passion into creating open-source projects such as galah, fatt, and honeyλ, focusing on his interests in network fingerprinting, honeypots, and the broader spectrum of threat detection.
Max Kilger is a Professor of Practice holding joint appointments in the Management Science & Statistics Department and in the Department of Information Systems & Cyber Security at the University of Texas at San Antonio and is a board member of the Honeynet Project. Max is the Academic Director of the UTSA IC CAE Critical Technology Studies Program which prepares students for a career in the Intelligence Community. He has over 20 years of experience publishing in the national security space on profiling motivations of malicious online actors, the social structure of the hacking community, future emerging digital threats, civilian attacks on critical infrastructure, hybrid warfare and the emergence of cyberterrorism. He has been active in teaching and speaking at various NATO commands.
Matteo is the Threat Intelligence Team Leader in Certego, an Italian MDR and TI provider, where he researches and studies upcoming cyber threats to develop new solutions to fight against them. He is also a member of The Honeynet Project where he promotes open source culture and knowledge sharing by participating in programs like the Google Summer of Code. He is the author and principal maintainer of the popular open source Threat Intelligence Platform called IntelOwl.
Manuel has been working in IT for over 20 years and participated in GSoC in 2022, implementing HTTP/3 support for mitmproxy. He’s also a member of the Theoretical Computer Science group at the University of Innsbruck.
Kara Nance, PhD, is CEO at SecurityWorks LLC where she is responsible for meeting specialized technology needs of cybersecurity clients. She is co-author of “The Ghidra Book: The Definitive Guide” and regularly conducts training on the evolution of the reverse-engineering tool since its release as an open-source product by the NSA at RSA 2019. A computer science professor before transitioning to government and industry, she served as a Senior-Executive Advisory Board member for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and as a Board Member of the Honeynet Project for many years. She is a frequent speaker and author on cybersecurity and enjoys building Ghidra extensions in her spare time.
Marco Ochse is working as a Senior Security Expert for Deutsche Telekom Security GmbH in the Cyber Defense Technologies & Analytics team.
Marco started working on the DT honeypot initiative shortly after joining the DT Group Security back in 2011. Before signing on for Deutsche Telekom Marco was working as a security consultant specializing in internal and perimeter security with customers mainly from within the finance and insurance sector.
Claire is a Cyber Solutions Architect with Penten responsible for delivering Active Cyber Defence expertise and Penten’s technology suite to clients. Claire’s interests lie in helping clients understand threat actor behaviour to develop novel active cyber defence strategies. She has spent 6.5 years working in cyber security and related fields.
After spending a couple of years studying Math and Physics, I ventured out to work with Microsoft’s Bing on making the web a safer place, got paid by DARPA to hunt hackers and taught students in Taiwan. My passion for security and open source got nurtured by The Honeynet Project which lead to a five year stint with Norman, Blue Coat and Symantec working on large scale malware analysis and behavioral detection systems. I left the security industry and joined Corti as Senior Software Engineer, building their engineering team and saving people in life threatening situations. Currently I work as Senior Engineering Manager with the world largest online wine retail platform Vivino.
Daniele Rosetti works in Certego, an Italian MDR and TI provider. He is the Frontend Maintainer of the IntelOwl platform
Dragos is the organizer of Canada’s and Japan’s oldest, most technical, information security conferences at CanSecWest and PacSec, for 21 and 17 years respectively. He started out as a computer dinosaur from back when computers used paper tape (P DP11) and along the way has worked on supercomputers used by various government agencies, as well as working on network monitoring systems for HP for 7 years, picking up an Emmy along the way for the MPEG digital video analyzers used for the first HDTV stations. He does security audits for mission critical systems, and has organized infosec conferences in Vancouver, London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Hong Kong, as well as starting the PWN2OWN competition. Post-pandemic among his many focus areas he’s been exploring the boundaries and intersection of LLM security, EW & RF applications, scalable redundant mTLS encrypted cluster meshes, embedded firmware, SMBv3, and IoT networks with a focus on vehicular and EV power network security.
Abbie is the Product Manager for Penten’s active cyber defence solution, HoneyTrace. Abbie works with engineering teams to develop and deliver HoneyToken technology in support of cyber deception and active cyber defence deployments across organisations. She has spent 7 years working in cyber security and related fields.
Shreyas Srinivasa is a Cybersecurity Specialist, R&D at Terma A/S, Copenhagen with research interests in Cyber Deception, Cyber Threat Intelligence and Internet Security Measurements. He also served as a faculty member at Cybersecurity Research Group at AAU. In his Ph.D., Shreyas explored avenues in the area of Honeypot Fingerprinting to detect a large number of misconfigured honeypots on the Internet.
Dr. Natalia Stakhanova is the Canada Research Chair in Security and Privacy, and Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She is a former NB Innovation Research Chair in Cybersecurity at the University of New Brunswick. Her work revolves around building secure systems. Dr. Stakhanova has published over 70 publications in the areas of network security, software protection, and code attribution. She holds 4 patents in the field of computer security. Dr. Stakhanova is a member of the Canadian Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security (CCRS), the group that provides advice to the Minister of Public Safety Canada and the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, concerning matters of national security and public safety. She serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM). Dr. Stakhanova is the recipient of numerous recognitions and awards including the top 20 Canadian Women in Cybersecurity, the CyberNB Recognition Award, the McCain Young Scholar Award and the Anita Borg Institute Faculty Award. She is a strong advocate of Women in IT and co-founder of CyberLaunch Academy, an initiative that aims to promote science and technology among children.
Krassimir Tzvetanov is a graduate student at Purdue University focusing on Threat Intelligence, Operational Security and Influence Operations, in the cyber domain. In the recent past, Krassimir was a security engineer at a small CDN, where he focused on incident response, investigations, and threat research. Previously he worked for companies like Cisco and A10 focusing on threat research and information exchange, DDoS mitigation, product security. Before that, Krassimir held several operational (SRE) and security positions at companies like Google, Yahoo!, and Cisco. Krassimir is very active in the security research and investigation community. Krassimir holds a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Master in Digital Forensics and Investigations, and a Master in Information Technology with a focus on Homeland Security.
Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis is an associate professor in cyber-security at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), part of DTU Compute and the Cyber Security Engineering section. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Honeynet Project. Emmanouil is the principal investigator in various large projects (e.g., Loki and Apate; both in the field of cyber-deception). His research interests include cyber-deception, (collaborative) threat detection, botnet monitoring and darkweb analytics.
André Vorbach is working as head of Deutsche Telekom Security’s Red Team. In his prior position as senior security expert, he was actively involved in honeypot development and the setup of DT’s sensor network. Prior to working for Deutsche Telekom / T-Systems, he was working at CERT-Bund, located at the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
After leaving the military, Ben worked as a engineer building cyber incident response capability. Over the last 15 years he has co-founded several companies, including M5 Network Security and Penten. He now works in the UK on building a series of products related to generating fake things using machine learning for cyber deception and active cyber defence.
Simon is a Product Manager for Penten’s Content and Behaviour Generator, used to support the creation of highly realistic honeypots. Simon has worked cyber security and related fields for over ten years and has a background in the design, engineering and deployment of cyber deception technologies across Australian government and industry.
A student with a strong foundation in IT, especially Python and Robotics, Liu Yanzhao aspires to become a cybersecurity specialist. He has driven numerous projects focused on empowering others through technology, showcasing his technical skills by achieving a distinction in the prestigious Perse Coding Challenge and a silver medal at the Oxford University Coding Challenge. Passionate about lifelong learning, Liu seeks to deepen his cybersecurity knowledge through real-world challenges and practical products.