Cybersecurity

BSides Peoria 2025

BSides Peoria is a community-driven cybersecurity conference held in Peoria, Illinois, at Bradley University. It brings together security enthusiasts, professionals, and students for talks, networking, and workshops focused on the latest trends, challenges, and developments in InfoSec.

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29Speakers
0Sponsors
14On the bill · sessions
8Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at BSides, in alphabetical order.
Avery Bushnell
Cybersecurity Analyst
Benjamin Padgitt
Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
Brutus Cato
Privacy Advocate
Cody
Cody Kretsinger
Dan Krueger
David Gomez
Founder and President, Private Investigation Firm; former Special Agent (ATF)
Deviant Ollam
Physical Penetration Specialist at The CORE Group; Director of Education for Red Team Alliance · The CORE Group
Doug Kras
Ethan Izenwasser
Associate Consultant, Mandiant (Google) · Mandiant (Google)
Gabe Roy
Henry Timm
Jay Grusin
Co-Principal, Intelligent Risk Management, LLC · Intelligent Risk Management, LLC
JD Zluticky
Julia Odden
Associate Consultant, Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud) · Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud)
Justin Henderson
CEO, Tellaro, Inc. · Tellaro, Inc.
Kevin Gunter
Penetration Tester · FRSecure
Kyprianos Vasilopoulos
Tech Lead, OffensiveX; Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Apifon; Co-Founder, OffensiveX · OffensiveX / Apifon
Matt Topper
McKeegan Curran
Nick
Nick S
Cybersecurity Enthusiast
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Agenda

Selected from 14 sessions on the bill.
  • 01:00 PM - 01:45 PM

    Declarative Operating Systems for Better Security

    NixOS is a fully declarative Linux distribution. It is very unique in how it handles configuration and package management. While it is not quite mature enough, the advantages are c…

  • 01:00 PM - 01:45 PM

    Intro to IoT Hacking

    IoT devices can be anything from temperature sensors to that new Smart Fridge in your house. When reviewing these devices for security issues, there are a wide variety of methods t…

  • 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM

    Is AI the Monster Under the Bed

    “In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), fears about the potential risks and dangers of AI technologies often dominate public discourse. However, from my…

  • 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM

    Lessons Learned from the CrowdStrike Outage: Key Strategies to Build Cyber Resilience

    The global CrowdStrike IT outage demonstrated that even non-ransomware cyber incidents may have serious repercussions. Events like these serve as a wake-up call for businesses to r…

  • 03:00 PM - 03:45 PM

    Hacker Health

    Burnout. Exhaustion. Eating Poorly. Losing Fitness. They’re all just part of the inherent risk of tech work, right? They were for me. In this talk, we’ll use my personal failures a…

  • 03:00 PM - 03:45 PM

    Unraveling OAuth Protections: Exploiting Loopholes

    Since 2012, OAuth 2.0 has been a critical method for authorizing applications to access data. This data can be private and sensitive, making attacks on OAuth all the more attractiv…

  • 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM

    Burn Baby Burn: One Click is all it takes

    Recently I uncovered a security vulnerability in a fire alarm monitoring system app, the api allowed me to access all the other customer information including adresses, lock box pi…

  • 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM

    Navigating the Messaging Matrix: Comparing Popular and Secure Chat Applications

    Choosing the right messaging app that respects your privacy and security can be challenging, especially when different contexts demand different tools. This presentation offers a c…

  • 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM

    BSides Peoria 2024 Wrap Up

    Join us as we wrap up BSides 2024 with a quick chat, our annual transparency report, awards and what to look forward to at BSides 2025!

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 8 companies, parsed from the program.

Eight companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
8Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

17% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite27%
  • Founder / Owner13%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of13%
  • Manager / Lead27%
  • Engineer · IC414%
  • Other roles1862%

Of 29 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Bradley University2V
  2. 02FRSecure1V
  3. 03Intelligent Risk Management, LLC1V
  4. 04Mandiant (Google)1V
  5. 05Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud)1V
  6. 06OffensiveX / Apifon1V
  7. 07Tellaro, Inc.1V
  8. 08The CORE Group1V
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.