Last week, we headed to Phoenix, Arizona 🌵, for LABScon, an intimate event for the world’s top cybersecurity minds to gather, share cutting-edge research, and push the envelope of threat landscape understanding.
“LABScon is incredible. The conference brings together some of the sharpest minds in the information security, intelligence, and cyber worlds globally. We were delighted to sponsor and present at the conference again this year. We came for the research, but we are forever changed by the camaraderie,” said Elly Rostoum, Alperovitch Institute Managing Director.
This year, we had 5 members of the Institute’s faculty, staff, and students presenting 👇 👏:
Congratulations to Elly Rostoum for winning the 2nd Best Speaker award for her keynote, “Follow the Money: Uncovering the Incorporation of the CCP’s Ownership of Chinese Firms Investing in the United States,” presenting findings from her research into the national security vulnerabilities from Chinese foreign direct investment in the American biotech and entertainment sectors.
Alperovitch PhD Fellow, Martin Wendiggensen, took the 3rd Best Speaker Award for his keynote, “The Real AI Race – Disinformation in the Taiwanese Election,” based on his research on AI disinformation, deep fakes, and lying bots.
Some pictures of us from the desert 🌵:
Elly Rostoum closed #LABScon24 Keynote Day by delivering a TLP: Red talk on the national security vulnerabilities from the incorporation of Chinese firms investing in the American biotech and entertainment sectors.
Adjunct Professor MJ Emanuel presented on her latest research on security problems in edge devices, and the evolution of the SSL, VPN, and firewall industry over the last 25 years.
Adjunct Professor Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro gave an off-the-record talk introducing a novel attack against the most popular LLM integration of the past year – Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, which are pivotal in applications, such as providing up-to-date information and reducing hallucinations in model outputs.
Alperovitch Institute Managing Director, Elly Rostoum, and Alperovitch PhD Fellow, Martin Wendiggensen, on stage during the LABScon Best Speaker Awards ceremony.
Elly Rostoum, Juan Andres Guerrero Saade, MJ Emanuel, Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro, Brandon Levene, Martin Wendiggensen, and (some of our amazing!) #LABScon friends.