THE AIxCC SEMIFINAL COMPETITION EXPERIENCE AT DEF CON 32!
Everything you need to recap the Semifinal Competition.
The DARPA AI Cyber Challenge, in collaboration with ARPA-H, brings together the foremost experts in AI and cybersecurity to safeguard the software critical to all Americans. AIxCC is excited to have Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, the Linux Foundation, the Open Source Security Foundation, Black Hat USA, and DEF CON as collaborators in this effort.
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Scoring Visualizations
Take a look at how the teams progressed through the Challenge Projects.
Latest from the AIxCC at DEF CON 32
Check out the talks and interviews captured at DEF CON.
DAY 1: Dr. Kathleen Fisher
DAY 1: Heather Adkins
DAY 1: Panel
DAY 1: Fireside Chat
DAY 1: Tejas Patel
DAY 2: Matt Knight
DAY 2: Jason Clinton
DAY 2: Remy Decausemaker
DAY 2: Dr Andrew Fasano
DAY 2: Mark Griffin
DAY 2: Aeva Black
DAY 2: Dr Wil Covey
EXPERIENCE AIxCC SEMIFINALS COMPETITION at DEF CON 32
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AIxCC Stage Schedule
See what happened on our stage.
August 9th
Welcome to DEF CON 32
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM
Jeff “The Dark Tangent” Moss DEF CON Communications
(Live streamed from track 1)
Spies and Bytes: Victory in the Digital Age
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
General Paul M. Nakasone, Founding Director at Vanderbilt’s Institute of National Security
(Live streamed from track 1)
SMOKE: Signature Management using Operational Knowledge and Environments
11:30 AM – 11:50 AM
Tejas Patel, SMOKE Program Manager at DARPA Information Innovation Office
Fireside Chat with DNSA Anne Neuberger
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Dark Tangent, DEF CON Communications and Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Tech
(Live streamed from track 1)
If Existing Cyber Vulnerabilities Magically Disappeared Overnight, What Would Be Next?
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM
Dr. Stefanie Tompkins, Director at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); Dr. Renee Wegrzyn, First Director at Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H); and Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, Chief Information Officer at DARPA
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM
(Live streamed from track 1)
DEF CON Unplugged: Cocktails & Cyber with Jeff & Jen
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Dark Tangent and Jen Easterly, Director at Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
(Live streamed from track 1)
Closing the Software Vulnerability Gap
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Dr. Kathleen Fisher, Director of DARPA Information Innovation Office
Industry Panel: The Modern Evolution of LLMs
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Moderator: Matt Turek |Moderator: Dr. Matt Turek, Deputy Director of DARPA Information Innovation Office| Panelists: Heather Adkins, Vice President of Security Engineering at Google; Jason Clinton, Chief Information Security Officer at Anthropic; Matt Knight, Head of Security at OpenAI; David Weston, Vice President of Enterprise and OS Security at Microsoft
No Time for Complacency: The Stakes of AI in Cybersecurity
4:55 PM – 5:15 PM
Heather Adkins, Vice President of Security Engineering at Google
How Competitions Can Fuel Innovation
5:20 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderator: Mike Walker, Senior Director at Microsoft Research | Panelists: Matt Knight, Head of Security at OpenAI; Ruoyu “Fish” Wang, Assistant Professor at School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence; David Brumley, CEO and Co-Founder of ForAllSecure
August 10th
Securing Health Care with ARPA-H: AIxCC, DIGIHEALS, and UPGRADE
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Dr. Jen Roberts, Office Director of Resilient Systems at ARPA-H; Dr. Susan Monarez, Deputy Director of ARPA-H; Andrew Carney, Program Manager at DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) & Program Manager at Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Eating Our Own Dogfood: Equipping Security Teams with LLMs
10:50 AM – 11:20 AM
Matt Knight, Head of Security at OpenAI
Spotting Deepfakes in a World with Generative AI
11:30 AM – 11:50 AM
Dr. William Corvey, SEMAFOR Program Manager at DARPA Information Innovation Office
Securing AI at the Frontier:
Protecting Model Weights
12:00 PM – 12:50 PM
Jason Clinton, Chief Information Security Officer at Anthropic
Fireside Chat with Jay Healey and National Cyber Director Harry Coker, Jr.
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Harry Coker, Jr. National Cyber Director at White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD); Jay Healey, Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs
(Live streamed from track 1)
The Cat-and-Mouse Game of Adversarial Artificial Intelligence
2:00 PM – 2:20 PM
Dr. Alvaro Velasquez, GARD Program Manager at DARPA Information Innovation Office
Establishing the first Open Source Program Office at a United States Federal Agency
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Remy DeCausemaker, Open Source Lead at Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Contextualizing Open Source Software’s Importance to CISA’s Mission
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Aeva Black, Section Chief of Open Source Software Security at Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
A Reverse Engineer’s Guide to AI Interpretability
3:45 PM – 4:30 PM
Dr. Andrew Fasano, Cyber System Assessments at MIT-LL
DEF CON Academy: Cultivating M4D SK1LLZ In the DEF CON Community
4:30 PM – 5:15 PM
Yan “Zardus” Shoshitaishvili, Associate Professor at Arizona State University; Perri Adams, Special Assistant to the Director at DARPA
(Live streamed from track 2)
Visualizing AIxCC: Bringing Your Code to Life
5:15 PM – 6:00 PM
Mark Griffin, AIxCC Technical Visualization Lead at Undaunted Development LLC
August 11th
Changing Global Threat Landscape with Rob Joyce and Dark Tangent
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Rob Joyce and Jeff “The Dark Tangent” Moss DEF CON Communications
(Live streamed from track 4)
From Research to Release: Transferring AIxCC Results to Open Source Software
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Dr. David A. Wheeler, Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security, Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF); Jeff Diecks, Technical Project Manager – AIxCC, OpenSSF; Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
AIxCC Closing Ceremonies
12:30 PM – 1:15 PM
Perri Adams, Special Assistant to the Director at DARPA; Andrew Carney, Program Manager at DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) & Program Manager at Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
(Live streamed from track 1-2)
The Challenge in Building a Challenge
Will be released after DEF CON 32.
Cromulence, Kudu Dynamics, MIT Lincoln Labs, and Rhapsode Consulting