🚨 Blue Team Con 2026🚨 We're moving! Join us at Swissotel Chicago on September 10-13, 2026. We have many new things for all of you going into our SIXTH year. A conference for anyone working in information security - GRC, SOC, TI, Audit, Engineers, Architects, CISOs, and more!

Blue Team Con values community – and in doing so, that translates to transparency. While we are not a 501(c)(3), we do want to publicly disclose our high-level financial information. Below, you will find our Blue Team Con 2025 Financial Disclosure. blueteamcon.com/btc-news/blu...

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Thanks to the many speakers who have shared their presentation decks from Blue Team Con 2025. They've been added to the individual talk pages on our site - check it out! blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t...

You know it was a good weekend when you really tear up once the train pulls away from station to head back home from Chicago after @blueteamcon.com. Aside from the event, what I loved most of all was the full tables and great convos with dear friends. 💚

We won the @blueteamcon.com CTF!!

Huge thank you to everyone who came to my @blueteamcon.com talk this afternoon, I hope you enjoyed it! As promised, the updated slide deck has been uploaded to my Github -- get it here, and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! github.com/InfosecGoon/...

We won the @blueteamcon.com CTF!!!!

Victorious at @blueteamcon.com

What an incredible weekend! Thank you to everyone who came together to make our fifth Blue Team Con an overwhelming success. We can't wait to see you next year!

That's a wrap for talks this year… but wait, there's more! Please join us for the closing ceremonies at 3:30PM CT in Talk Track 1.

It's midday - we know you're hungry… why not grab some Girl Scout cookies for a quick boost? Find them on the 3rd floor outside of the Wellness Village from 1:30 - 2:30 PM CT. Seriously, go grab some cookies!

[Last Minute] CTF closes in just 30 minutes!! We hope you documented your work, or you'll be missing out on half of the possible points to be earned.

Opening in 15 minutes, and the only lab occurring today, Hack The Box will be demonstrating Threat Range - a gamified simulation that takes you through the full incident response cycle in one high-intensity exercise.

Today's Blue Team Con 2025 Talks have officially begun! If you're reading this from the hallway, you're late! 😛

This year's shirts, hats, and other swag is moving fast! Swag is officially open for today, so don’t miss your chance to take home a piece of Blue Team Con 2025.

Our annual Networking Event and Party starts at 9PM CT - don't miss this chance to catch up with friends, meet your next boss, or even do a little dancing to music played by DJ cillic.

Kicking off at 9PM CT is our Board and Card Games event sponsored by Sober in Cyber and hosted by Stellar Cyber. This is a sober event **no alcohol allowed** but we will have mocktails and food to enjoy during some friendly competition.

Join Blue Team Con Speaker and talented pianist, Gary Rimar, for PianoBar Con at 8:30PM CT in the 3rd Floor Foyer. There might even be a sing-along…

The slides from my @blueteamcon.com keynote this morning are posted here. It's unfortunately not recorded, but if this is the sort of thing your org would benefit from privately, reach out and we'll talk. github.com/malwarejake-...

Looking forward to seeing all you hackers in meatspace! I'm bouncing between tracks and sharing slides (Unconference today + Track 2 tomorrow) on the Discord. If you're at @blueteamcon.com this weekend, please say hi, I look like this:

"Web applications are not designed for DFIR use cases. Tell a vendor you're having trouble downloading ten thousand records and they'll ask why you would ever want to do that."

We hope you'll join MHH Chief Wellness Officer, Matthew Abahazi, on tomorrow's inaugural 4.5 mile, 9 bridge challenge run! Meet near the parking roundabout at 7:45am CT, and don't forget to carbo load tonight with some fettuccini alfredo*! * please don't do this More info: buff.ly/rGmTmc7

That concludes the talks for Blue Team Con 2025 Day 1. We hope you'll join us for tonight's piano, networking, and board game festivities!

Hack The Box CTF closes soon, at 6PM CT. Highest score wins - make sure to wrap up all 6 challenges before closing!

Opening in 15 minutes, @limacharlie.io's lab gives Security Engineers the opportunity to build solutions to help detect and neutralize threats with automated workflows.

We hope you made it to our Keynote Address this morning - what a fantastic presentation given by Jake Williams!

Play in @graylog.bsky.social's sandbox and experience their TDIR platform where you can identify, prioritize, and respond to security events - it opens in 15 minutes.

Learn to automate and scale your vulnerability and exposure management in Seemplicity's lab, starting in just 15 minutes!

If you are attending @blueteamcon.com this weekend, we'll be recording an episode live in the unconference track at 10:00am Sunday morning!! If you have questions about response drills and tabletop exercises, stop by and ask them on the show!

Here’s @malwarejake.bsky.social rocking his keynote at @blueteamcon.com! 🤩 #HackerAdventures

Good morning, @blueteamcon.com. Today at 1:20 pm in the Unconference Room I will be giving an updated version of my original @cocktailcon.org talk on bitters. Hope to see you there!

Looking forward to first @blueteamcon.com

Its been a great two days of giving training at @blueteamcon.com on #ThreatModeling! Now to also enjoy some sessions at the conference this weekend.

Very excited to be back at @blueteamcon.com for the first time since their inaugural event. Looking forward to two days of blue team shenanigans!

Let the @blueteamcon.com festivities commence! Looking forward to a great day of talks.

Let’s go @blueteamcon.com ! I’m speaking at 1230 today about why some incidents are more expensive than others, and what orgs can do about it

It's good to be back @blueteamcon.com

SWAG HERE! GET YA SWAG HERE! The Swag table is now open - grab some of our fun new goodies before they're sold out.

This year's Wellness Village will be hosting a few talks of their own today! Check out the Wellness Talks schedule here: blueteamcon.com/directory/we... The first one starts in 15 minutes!

Blue Team Con 2025 talks are officially underway. We hope you planned your weekend well - with 3 talk tracks bursting with information to consume, it choosing just one at any time can be a challenge!

Schedule update: Sat., Track 3, 3:30pm: Things didn’t go as planned… because you didn’t have a plan - 0DDJ0BB Sun., Track 3, 10am: Firewalls and Fire Alarms: What to Do When Your Best Defenses Go Up in Smoke - Dr. Catherine Ullman BTC site is up to date, program update soon.

The annual [Last Minute] CTF opens in a half hour - if you haven't registered, now would be a good time to get that done. Good luck!

Have escalating cyber threats got you feeling tense? Drop in for a 10-minute massage at the Wellness Village from 10am to 3pm CT today! Massages are first come, first serve.

This year's Ultimate Sponsor, Horizon3.ai, is hosting the first lab of this year's conference where you can experience their NodeZero platform in action - it opens in 15 minutes!

Opening in 30 minutes…. The Hack The Box CTF gives participants a chance to test their forensic skills with the chance to win a HTB subscription valued at $490!

This year's Keynote Address - Less Resources, More Impact: Doing More With Less In Cybersecurity presented by Jake Williams - begins in just 30 minutes. You won't want to miss it. Catch it in Talk Track 1 immediately after the Opening Ceremonies. blueteamcon.com/2025-keynote/

The 2025 Blue Team Con Opening Ceremonies begin in 30 minutes - make your way to Talk Track 1 and buckle up!

Can you feel it? That tingling? We're less than one hour away from the opening ceremonies.