DEF CON 31 - Civil Cyber Defense - Tiffany Rad and Austin Shamlin

Civil Cyber Defense volunteers and students challenge high-risk adversaries and threats such as human traffickers, authoritarian regimes, and surveillance being conducted on journalists. By utilizing academic resources, OSINT skills, and free/open-source tools, civil cyber defenders are supporting vulnerable non-profits, protecting volunteers, journalists, and activists while defending human rights. There is a need in the cybersecurity industry for more civil cyber defenders. Recommendations will be made as to how your organization can support and/or volunteer your time and tools to provide protection to vulnerable organizations who have high risks, face advanced and persistent adversaries, but have modest resources. REFERENCES: The content we will present was generated by the speakers. Tiffany will present anonymized case studies from the “Citizen Clinic” at UC Berkeley and Austin will share case studies his organization has generated regarding human trafficking. Our only bibliographic reference at this moment is a reference to open source/free software tools we use at UC Berkeley. We will also reference a tool to make VPNs safer created by Berkeley’s students called “Ghost Prtcl.”