Admiral CTF Team
The CTF session is a fast-paced activity, entirely mobile-based and will feature a range of mixed-difficulty challenges from button-bashers to head-scratchers.
Darren Kingsnorth
Darren is the Head of Threat Intelligence & Analytics at Admiral Group where he heads up the organisation’s intelligence function to inform decision making at all levels. Having spent a decade in an adversarial setting across a number of verticals as a colloquial tester of pens, has since spent the last 5 years specialising within Open Source and Threat Intelligence. With a belief that diversity of mindset and differing biases within teams ultimately brings forth alternative and novel solutions, he actively supports and is involved in such external programmes as Code First Girls as a mentor, Cyber College Cymru as a trainer and other external engagements to pay it forward.
Richard Hicks
Richard is the Threat Emulation Team Lead at Admiral Group, where he spends his days with his team plotting how best to test the People, Processes and Technologies Admiral use to protect their customer’s data. Having spent the last 14+ years in offensive security, starting in penetration testing before moving onto adversary emulation/simulation for large organisations around the globe, he now helps to ensure Admiral’s infosec team and the controls they implement, and monitor are up to scratch. Richard actively supports newcomers to cyber security with his work delivering workshops for Cyber College Cymru, an initiative intended to involve local industry partners with local colleges, in order to pass on the various techniques and skills students need to progress in this field.
Tom Rowan
Tom is a Senior Pentester at Admiral. He has over 25 years experience of sitting in data centres and marking other people’s homework.
When not hacking computers, Tom enjoys messing about with radios, electronics and other generally nerdy behaviour. He is involved in delivering the Cyber College Cymru initiative, and trains young people within the RAF Air Cadets.
Gold Sponsors
Cyber Innnovation Hub - Hyb Arloesedd Seiber
The vision of the Cyber Innovation Hub is, “To transform Cardiff Capital Region into a leading UK cyber cluster by 2030”. The Hub is creating a pipeline of new cyber products, high-growth
businesses, and talent in the region. The Cyber Innovation Hub is led by Cardiff University with a consortium of multiple private and public sector partners including Airbus, the Alacrity Foundation, CGI, Thales, Tramshed Tech, and the University of South Wales. The Hub is funded by Welsh Government and Cardiff Capital Region.
The Hub offers a range of hands-on, practical training courses, aimed at companies, employees and also those looking to enter the cyber sector. The Hub also wraps commercial teams around ground-breaking solutions and creates new startups.
For information on both our training courses and our venture building programme then please see our website at:
https://cyberinnovationhub.wales/
Silver Sponsors
Admiral
Admiral’s a leading Financial Services company covering services such as motor, home, travel and pet insurance, Insurtech and legal services. Admiral is part of Admiral Group, a FTSE100 company with businesses in the UK, Europe and America. In the UK it has over 7,500 colleagues and over 6.4 million customers.
Admiral’s a company where you can. There are countless opportunities to be you, where you are accepted, supported, and most importantly, empowered to be yourself. The company prioritises doing what’s right; for each other, for customers and beyond. The enabling environment is constantly developing and investing in you to reach your full potential. And as co-owners, you can influence and shape the business’ future and make a difference. As a result, Admiral has won many awards for being a great employer, including being named the Best Big Company to Work For in the UK for 2024.
Gold Sponsors
PwC
With 40 Ethical Hackers based in Wales’ capital, and 20 more in London, PwC’s Ethical Hacking Team forms a core component of PwC’s world leading cyber security practices. Our Cardiff site hosts the hardware laboratory for our IoT and OT/IIoT projects and also our software team who build the innovative tooling needed for our red team projects. We help our clients to better understand the risk from their IT environments by simulating the actions of real-world threat actors. This can involve anything from hacking web applications to sneaking into offices to gain a foothold on an internal network! If this sounds like a career you’d be interested in come and talk to us at Bsides Cymru. Our ethical hacking graduates complete a funded MSc in Cyber Security and Technology at Cardiff University that recently won the Fintech Wales Best Academic Programme award. PwC are currently recruiting graduates for September 2023 both for our ethical hacking team and for a wide range of other technology roles such as data science, incident response, technology consulting and transformation, and software engineering.
After Party
Ontinue
Ontinue is on a mission to be the most trusted, 24/7, always-on security partner that empowers customers to embrace the future by operating more strategically and with less risk. Grounded in an intelligent, cloud-delivered SecOps platform, Ontinue offers superior protection that goes well beyond basic detection and response services. Ontinue is the only MXDR provider that leverages AI-driven automation, human expertise, and the Microsoft security platform to continuously assess and protect your environment and advance your security posture for digital transformation. Continuous protection. Always-on prevention Services. Nonstop SecOps. That’s Ontinue.
Learn more: https://www.ontinue.com/
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13 Fields
Value Driven Consultancy Capabilities
13Fields is a Big Data and Information Security consultancy; we're small, but punch hard! Most of our work is Splunk-related and Security-oriented, we help clients get the most out of their Splunk investments and work on art-of-the-possible answers to the challenges they face.
We strongly believe in giving back to communities and supporting community initiatives- in the InfoSec and Cyber worlds and beyond. We’re extremely pleased to be sponsoring BSides Cymru for a second year and look forward to catching up with friends old and new.
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Kocho
Kocho is a multi-time, Microsoft Partner Of The Year, with over 20 years’ experience in IT professional services and managed services.
We combine Microsoft cloud technology with identity, mobility, connectivity, and security solutions.
Applied by our experienced team of cutting-edge experts to help transform UK businesses.
Become greater with us. The sky’s the limit.
https://kocho.co.uk/
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Pen Test Partners
Pen Test Partners / PTP has been providing cyber security expertise to a huge variety of industries and businesses since 2010. We’re paid to hack and test the security of all sorts of things, as well as providing essential consultancy, digital forensics and incident response / DFIR, and cyber security accreditations. We’ve tested ships and rigs (at sea!), connected and electric vehicles, the power grids and the stations that keeps countries functioning, as well as the payment, transport, and fulfilment systems on which everybody is reliant. We also do security research. Through that we help get flawed products off shop shelves and assist manufacturers to improve their security game. It’s all freely available without subscription in the public domain:
https://ptp.sh/in-the-news
https://ptp.sh/blog
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Seiber
Seiber are a Wales based consultancy specialising in Information Security and Open-Source Intelligence and we are also accredited training partners for ISACA for their CISM and CRISC certifications, BCS for their CISMP certification and our Open-Source Intelligence training is accredited under the NCSC Assured Training scheme. We are delighted to be able to continue our association with BSides Cymru 2024 having been able to sponsor the first BSides Cymru event back in 2019 and BSides Cymru 2023.
https://www.seiber.co.uk/about
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Team Cymru
Since 2005, Team Cymru's mission has been to save and improve human lives by working with public and private sector analyst teams to help track and take down threat actors, criminals, and human traffickers around the globe. The company delivers comprehensive visibility into global cyber threat activity and is a key source of intelligence for many cyber security and threat intelligence vendors, as well as many Global 1000 companies. The company's Community Services division provides no cost threat detection and intelligence to network operators, hosting providers and more than 130 CSIRT teams across 86+ countries. In addition, network operators and hosting providers who partner with Team Cymru have access to no cost DDoS mitigation, threat intelligence, network threat detection and other services.
Learn about the no-cost Nimbus threat detection and network analysis solution by visiting https://www.team-cymru.com/nimbus-threat-monitor
Gold Sponsors
Tines
No-code automation can save your security team days and weeks of work.
Tines is no-code automation for security teams. The world's best companies — from startups to the Fortune 10 – trust Tines to powerfully manage their mission-critical workflows, automatically responding to and remediating alerts in real-time. Securely built by security practitioners, Tines integrates with any REST API or web application to fuse data from multiple locations into a single workflow.
https://www.tines.com/
Hosts
Tramshed Tech
Tramshed Tech is a collaborative community, where startups scale up. Tramshed Tech offer a range of coworking, office space, meeting rooms, event space and podcast studios across South Wales with bases in Cardiff, Newport and Barry and soon to be Swansea. As well as collaborative workspaces, Tramshed Tech provide a range of skills training and business support services to include their award-winning Startup Academy designed to help businesses in tech, digital and creative industries thrive.
Underground
ITSUS Consulting
ITSUS Consulting provides ICT solutions for clients operating mission critical communications systems. With an emphasis on collaboration, customer-centric design, and the right skills and attitude, we strive for excellence, supporting our customers in embracing change and adapting to new ways of working.
We believe in innovation and digital transformation underpinned by culture and thought diversity; helping people fulfil their potential and make a difference in defence.
Afterparty Sponsors
F-Secure
F-Secure Consulting is a global, research-led cyber security consultancy. We partner with enterprise organizations to build resilience into their security strategy.
We strive to be the easiest cyber security company to work with, delivering exceptional results without fuss. We help to keep our clients’ businesses and customers safe day to day, working with them to mitigate damage should the worst happen.
We contribute to the advancement of our industry by dedicating time to research, driving service innovation, and providing evidence-based recommendations. We’re intellectually curious and passionate at all levels – from our interns to our dedicated research and development unit, F-Secure Labs. It’s this that drives us to solve the world’s most complex security challenges.
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Alert Logic
Alert Logic seamlessly connects an award-winning security platform, cutting-edge threat intelligence, and expert defenders to provide the best security and peace of mind for your business 24/7.
We offer a new approach to help you get the right level of security and compliance coverage. That’s SIEMless Threat Management from Alert Logic.
Admiral
Admiral started out in 1993 with the aim of offering lower insurance prices to more people, without compromising on the quality of our service or products.
You may know us as a car & home insurer but we offer a lot more. We can cover your holidays, vans and now we offer Personal Loans and Car Finance. Admiral is there to make sure you're covered every step of the way.
SANS
SANS Institute is the world’s largest provider of cyber security training. For over twenty-five years, we’ve provided cutting edge training to governments and organisations across the world. Technology may have changed in that time, but our core mission has remained constant: to protect through sharing cyber security knowledge and skills.
SANS offers over 60 cyber security courses, operates across dozens of countries and has over 200,000 alumni. Our training is built around a promise: students will be able to put into practice what they’ve learned as soon as they get back to their desk.
Underground Sponsors
Alert Logic
ITSUS Consulting is a specialist network consultancy which delivers that crucial combination of security and efficiency, both expertly and cost-effectively, to clients in the most demanding environments. Our highly experienced and agile team designs, integrates, tests and implements innovative tailored network solutions. We have built a strong reputation for our work in cyber & information security, systems integration, deployable CIS and test & automation. Our client base includes large Tier-1 defence prime integrators and UK government departments.
Alert Logic
Seiber are a Welsh based Cyber Security company who provide consultancy and training services. Our objective is to stop bad things happening to good people.
We are passionate about Cyber Security. Seriously. We eat, breathe and live it. So you don't have to.
Alert Logic
A modern, ambitious university, the University of South Wales makes a real difference to the lives of students, staff and the communities which surround us. With campuses in Cardiff, Newport, Pontypridd and Dubai, the University is renowned for its partnerships with major employers.
Our industry connections and emphasis on equipping students with real world experiences make our graduates among the most employable in the UK, with 95%* of our students in employment or further study within six months of graduating. And throughout everything we do, we strive to stay true to our core values of being Professional, Responsive, Inspiring and Creative.
Alert Logic
ThirdSpace has been at the very forefront of identity and access management for more than 15 years.We understand that the digital landscape is changing – this means your requirements are, too. But identity is the foundation for modern-day security and mobility – and it’s the foundation of who we are.
Our long history of working with new technology challenges and responding to evolving customer needs has made us the globally-recognised, award-winning company we are today.
Alert Logic
We’re the UK's only fully integrated home services provider – providing phone, broadband, mobile, gas, electricity & home insurance - all on one single monthly bill!
You may not have heard of us though, because we don’t waste our members’ money on expensive advertising. Instead, our growth has been fueled by 'word-of-mouth' recommendations.
And it works. We now have over 600,000 members, more than 40,000 Partners and a team of 1,000+ at our state-of-the-art Network HQ.
Alert Logic
Vibert Solutions offers senior board level advisory, consultancy, training, workshops and solution services. Threats, Risks, Impacts, Mitigations and Governance are addressed. Experienced with most industries including Critical National Infrastructures, Manufacturing, Utilities, Transport, Automation, Pharmaceutical, Food, Nuclear, Oil & Gas, Water, Rail, & Medical.
Your data, your staff, your operations are all at risk. Vibert Solutions helps reduce that risk, enhance your security, and improve your business operations.
We help you improve the security of your organisation. Over 25 years of experience in Advising Organisations and Boards on IT, Emergency Management, Situational Awareness, Industrial Automation and ICS Industrial Information Systems. Manufacturing Production and Industrial Information Solutions, and Critical Infrastructure Protection.
We enjoy evangelising business benefits of this industry, Customer Engagement, linking closely with new customers, training, workshops and ensuring customers are 100% delighted.