@malwarejake.bsky.social and Liam Emmart sharing real-world offensive AI R&D (not prompt engineering) at SCYTHE's #UniCon2025.

I am honored to be recognized as a Tech Titan of Washington DC by @washingtonian.com! Thank you to all of the brilliant folks that I've had the pleasure to work with and learn from to get here. 🦄

NEW EPISODE: “Creating this cyber aware culture is really what we're looking for.” Cyber Readiness Institute Deputy Managing Director Lessie Skiba joins @brysonbort.bsky.social to share more about the CRI’s program matching local water utilities with #cyber experts to bolster #cybersecurity.

New @hacktheplant.bsky.social: @brysonbort.bsky.social and CRI Deputy Managing Director Lessie Skiba sit down to discuss their new program connecting #cyber experts with small and medium sized water utilities to bolster #cybersecurity and resilience. 🎙️ Listen to episode 47:

IST Adjunct Senior Technical Advisor, Scythe CEO & ICS Village co-founder @brysonbort.bsky.social has been inducted into the Industrial Cyber Hall of Fame! “My focus isn’t just on protecting systems, it’s on building resilience at the national and global level,” he said. 🛡️ Read the full interview:

I was inducted into the Industrial Cyber Hall of Fame today. industrialcyber.co/hall-of-fame...

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Physical controls > Technical controls

In the mountains 🌴

We are in a Cold War with China. It doesn't matter what we call it. It only matters how our Adversary sees it.

Sunday coffee reading

It's your annual performance review. You think your AI boss hates you, but you can't tell. It sends you a one pager filled with your productivity metrics. Conclusion, "only human". You take solace that you can hide in MS Teams, even the Machines don't want to go there.

truth

A Democrat and a Republican walk into a bar... #hacktheplant @hacktheplant.bsky.social hack-the-plant.simplecast.com/episodes/loc...

I have seen the future

PSA

NEW EPISODE: “You can't run a Department of Defense facility without the local government,” @brysonbort.bsky.social sits down with NY State Chief Cyber Officer Colin Ahern & OH Cybersecurity Strategic Advisor Kirk Herath to learn about building statewide cybersecurity programs from the ground up.

Two political appointees walk into a bar... 🦄⚡

New by me: @brysonbort.bsky.social, @malwarejake.bsky.social, Nathan Case, and I wrote up a short paper on protecting your organization from Iranian threat actors in cyberspace. Some simple bullets to focus in your attention on most probable vectors. www.tarah.org/2025/08/13/p...

Made it through BSides, Blackhat, and Def Con.

A nice summary of my @bsideslv.org keynote, Me to We. 🦄 www.linkedin.com/pulse/bryson...

I'm speaking today at Blackhat on my lessons learned from working with critical infrastructure asset owners. 🦄⚡

From my @bsideslv.org keynote 🦄

@brysonbort.bsky.social on “From me to we” in cybersecurity: we glorify red team but they are really QA. For those of us on blue team, networks, GRC… “pen testers are there to check your work”

At @bsideslv.org, IST Adjunct @brysonbort.bsky.social delivered an interactive keynote on why community is vital to #cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is national security. "Every single day, you’re fighting state-sanctioned, state-sponsored operations,” he said. 🛡️ Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CD9...

Excited I got a sticker. Thanks @brysonbort.bsky.social for the great keynote this morning at BSidesLV.

Keynote live in 30m at @bsideslv.org! 🦄

War elephants are looking better and better. 🦄✈️

Some day I'll get there. 🦄✈️

Never met someone who nails threat definitions as well as @cje.io! Sneak peek from tomorrow's national security talk @bsideslv.org in the #iamthecavalry track. 🦄

Forget airplanes, I want to travel by war elephant.

Kindness is not weakness. 🦄

Hacker Summer Camp schedule 🦄

just sudo it

Not everything happens over the Internet

I will be attending several meetups @ DEFCON33: Fri 13:37 @defcongroups w/ @jackrhysider.bsky.social Fri 15:37 @DEFCONNextGen (youth and their parents only) Sat noon @owasp.org village Sat 13:37 ICS Village @brysonbort.bsky.social All events feature special surprise guests. Special note 1:

The Future is Now (Parody)

Sunday reading

My amazing friend @rayredacted.com is helping me give free soldering kits to the youth at @defcon.bsky.social - and any extras are going to be given to random folks I see in the hallways! If you want to help hit up Ray and he'll match your donation: @defconnextgen.bsky.social

The Internet is undefeated

11 years ago to the day - in Yaroslavl, the city of churches in Russia.

Priorities

Let them eat... carrot cake?

We're not so different after all.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/