Ken Westin
Ken Westin has been in the cybersecurity field for over 15 years working with companies to improve their security posture, through threat hunting, insider threat programs, and vulnerability research. In the past, he has worked closely with law enforcement helping to unveil organized crime groups. His work has been featured in Wired, Forbes, New York Times, Good Morning America, and others, and is regularly reached out to as an expert in cybersecurity, cybercrime, and surveillance.
Ken is an Oregon Native who splits his time between a house in the woods near Portland and a beach shack on the Oregon Coast with his wife, son, and two dogs. He holds a BA from Lewis & Clark College, a graduate degree from the University of Portsmouth UK, and several security certifications. He is a self-professed guitar and record hoarder and amateur musician.
Session
In this two-hour hands-on workshop we will show attendees how to build their own EDR/XDR/MDR platform leveraging open-source tools. Attendees will learn to deploy cross-platform EDR sensors, how to use sigma detection rules, write custom detection rules, and leverage open source adversary emulation tools ( Atomic Red Team) to test new them. We will then discuss how to extend these capabilities for investigations and threat hunting by integrating additional open source or free tools to gather additional telemetry such as Sysmon and Velociraptor.