It’s that time of year again - DEF CON! We were thrilled to run OpenSOC again at DEF CON this year, even if it had to be virtual (fingers crossed we’re all in person again in 2022).
OPENSOC @ DEF CON 29
Aug 11, 2021 1:46:00 PM / by Kelley Wilds posted in DFIR, Incident Response, Forensics, Security, InfoSec, OpenSOC, DEFCON, Events, Training, Threat Hunting, ZeroTier
SOC X 2021 - A Recap
Mar 8, 2021 2:08:00 PM / by Kelley Wilds posted in SOC X, Security, SOC, InfoSec, OpenSOC, Events, NDR, Defense
We can't start a recap post without a huge THANK YOU to the community for joining us last week and making SOC X such a success!
OpenSOC @ DEF CON 28 Safe Mode
Aug 14, 2020 11:53:00 AM / by Whitney Champion posted in OpenSOC, DEFCON, Events
Some of you may remember our last event, Camp COVID. That was the biggest event we had ever run.
UNTIL LAST WEEK: DEF CON 28
Camp COVID - A Recap
Apr 17, 2020 11:40:00 AM / by Whitney Champion posted in OpenSOC, Events, Graylog, Infrastructure

Let me first say, on behalf of the Recon team, we cannot thank the community enough for joining us last week.
OpenSOC: Camp COVID
Mar 30, 2020 1:15:00 PM / by Eric Capuano posted in OpenSOC, Events
Hello OpenSOC fam! First and most importantly, we hope that you and yours are healthy and happy in these unprecedented times.
The Infrastructure, II
Oct 17, 2019 2:48:00 PM / by Whitney Champion posted in OpenSOC, DEFCON, Events, Infrastructure
After DEF CON last year, we posted this blog about our infrastructure, which was spread between a handful of Intel NUCs, and AWS. It was epic. It was shiny and new. We loved it.
OpenSOC @ DC27 - Black Badge Edition!
Aug 31, 2019 2:53:00 PM / by Eric Capuano posted in OpenSOC, DEFCON, Events, BlackBadge, BlueTeamVillage
We never wrote up a blog post for DC27, but this excerpt from the closing ceremonies covers most of what we would've written.
A Tribute to devnull
Nov 15, 2018 3:52:00 PM / by Matt Bromiley posted in OpenSOC, DEFCON, BlueTeamVillage
Hello, dear friends. The past few days have been extremely hard on the OpenSOC Team. We hope this isn't the first time you're hearing of this, but a beloved friend of our team, devnull (aka Nolan Berry), passed away this past Friday, November 9, 2018. I'd try to find the words to express our sadness, but it would be an exercise in futility.
The Infrastructure
Aug 27, 2018 3:57:00 PM / by Whitney Champion posted in Automation, SecOps, OpenSOC, DEFCON, DevOps, Infrastructure
When I joined the OpenSOC team at the beginning of this year, everything resided on 3 Intel Skull Canyon NUC's, a couple other systems for scenarios or applications with hardware requirements, a Ubiquiti WAP, a Synology NAS, and various other things.
Blue Team Village @ DEF CON 26
Aug 23, 2018 4:00:00 PM / by Eric Capuano posted in OpenSOC, DEFCON, Events, BlueTeamVillage
Huge thanks to @BlueTeamVillage and all of the awesome projects that make up OpenSOC Blue CTF!