Schedule

Talks, side events and evenings

All sub-events were at La Marive, except the Networking dinner (Nov 2nd).

Thursday November, 2nd 2023

08:30 - 09:00 Welcome and coffee
09:00 - 09:15
opening Opening words
Sylvain Pasini
(HEIG-VD, president of Black Alps)
09:15 - 09:45
K01 [Keynote]
Unveiling the Express Lane to Catastrophe: Insights from Extensive Security Testing (en)
Florian Badertscher
(Bug Bounty Switzerland AG)
09:45 - 10:30
01 Needles in the Haystack: A Heuristics-based Approach to Vulnerability Discovery (en)
Matt Hand
(Prelude)
Jack Ullrich
(SpecterOps)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45
02 YouShallNotPass! Hardening CI/CD pipelines on mission critical environments (en)
Pierre Dumont
(Kudelski Security)
Romain Aviolat
(Kudelski Security)
11:45 - 12:30
03 XORtigate: zero-effort, zero-expense, 0-day on Fortinet SSL VPN (en)
Charles Fol
(Lexfo)
12:30 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:00
04 Ghidriff: Ghidra Binary Diffing Engine (en)
John Mac
(ClearSecLabs)
15:00 - 15:45
05 Quantum Computing Doomsday Planning: Is Your Organisation Ready? (en)
JP Aumasson
(Taurus)
Farida Aclimandos
(EPFL)
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 17:00
06 Sideloading Serenade: A Symphony of .NET Payload Techniques (en)
Nick Powers
(SpecterOps)
Steven Flores
(SpecterOps)
17:00 - 17:45
07 Caviar Scammers: The Sophisticated Operations of the SturgeonPhisher APT Group (en)
Damien Schaeffer
17:45 - 18:15 Travel
(17:50, bus departure from La Marive to Salle des Quais)
from 18:00 Networking dinner
Salle des quais (Grandson)
Mandatory registration
Aperitif at 18:00
Dinner at 19:15
(23:30 - Bus departure from Salle des Quais to Yverdon train station, La Marive, and Grand Hotel des Bains )

Friday 3rd November 2023

(08:15 - Bus departure from Grand Hotel des Bains to La Marive)
08:30 - 09:00 Welcome and coffee
09:00 - 09:15 Opening words
09:15 - 09:45
K02 [Keynote]
Unleash the engineer within: Culture eats policy for breakfast (en)
Fred Blaise
(Thomson Reuters)
09:45 - 10:30
08 Unraveling the Challenges of Reverse Engineering Flutter Applications (en)
Axelle Apvrille
(Fortinet)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45
09 A Security Research Journey: how the mobile industry met hackers in the middle (en)
David Rogers MBE
(Copper Horse Ltd)
Roger Brown
(GSMA)
11:45 - 12:30
10 Command-line Obfuscation Detection Using Large Language Models (en)
Michael Adam Polak
(Cisco)
Vojtech Outrata
(Cisco)
12:30 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:00
11 Cyber incident reportings : common obligations within organisations (en)
Pauline Meyer
(University of Lausanne)
Sylvain Métille
(University of Lausanne)
15:00 - 15:45
12 Defeating VPN Always-On (en)
Maxime Clementz
(PwC Luxembourg)
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 17:00
13 Infiltrating Kubernetes: A Comprehensive Study of Attack Scenarios and Security Measures (en)
Magno Logan
(Trend Micro)
17:00 - 17:45
14 Rump session (en/fr)
Several speakers
17:45 - 19:00 Closing aperitif
19:00 - 23:00 Black Alps dinner
(La Marive)
Free for all
Black Alps participants






CTF
(La Marive)
Mandatory registration

Welcome at 18:45
Start at 19:15
End at 22:45

Awards at 23:00

Legend

         Keynote

         Conference

         Side event

         Evening

Evenings

Networking dinner - Thursday 2nd November 2023

Come and join us for a friendly evening. We will share a meal in the Restaurant des Quais.



Menu

This year, the chef will propose us a gastronomic menu!

Tuna tataki with Wasabi toast (asian style)

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Celery cream with its emulsion

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Piece of beef with Madagascar pepper butter
Seasonal vegetables
Mashed potatoes

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Dessert buffet

Schedule

Aperitif from 18:00

Dinner from 19:15

Registration

The Networking dinner requires a separated registration. Please, register here.

Travel

Each participant may drive from La Marive to the Restaurant des Quais with their own car.

Bus will be organized :

  • 17:50 departure from La Marive to the Restaurant des Quais.
  • 23:30 departure from the Restaurant des Quais to (1) train station, (2) La Marive, (3) hotels.

Participants may leave earlier by using the public transports. The dinner is 2 minutes away by foot from the train station "Gransdson".

Website

Salle des Quais

Location

Salle des Quais
Chem. du Lac 43
1422 Grandson
Switzerland







Black Dinner - Friday 3rd November 2023

To end up this great event all together, come and join us for a friendly evening!

Registration

This year we decided to make the Black Dinner free for all Black Alps 2023 participants (if you participate to conferences, networking Dinner and/or CTF).

Thus, no additional registration is required.

Menu

Raclette, a traditional Swiss meal

Schedule

Dinner from 19:00

Location

Same building than conferences and Black Alps CTF.