Blue Team Con is an annual cybersecurity conference built for defenders, inclusive of anyone interested in safeguarding organizations. | Stay Tuned on 2027!

Chicago, IL
Yes, we did see you during Blue Team Con 2026. Well played.
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Wow. What an incredible 4 days. We'd like to extend a huge thank you to our presenters, trainers, volunteers, sponsors, those working behind the scenes, and most importantly - our attendees. Thanks for making Blue Team Con 2026 possible! We can't wait to see you again next year.
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This year's closing ceremonies begin in just 15 minutes - grab your seat, you won't want to miss them!
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In just 15 minutes, the mad rush for Girl Scout Cookies begins. Get in line now to make sure you can get some before they run out!
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The Blue Team Con 2026 Swag table closes for good in less than an hour - make sure to get your swag before it's packed up!
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If you haven't left your mark on our signature wall, be sure to make your way over and sign it (mid-level, near the photo wall)!
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It's lunch time again, and we've got another new food truck for you today - alongside El Azteca, Nick's Wood Fired Pizza will be rolling up to feed us. Go see what they're serving!
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Have you dropped by the IoT village yet? You're aware that every connected device presents a new threat, so learn more about how you can get ahead of them before it becomes an issue!
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Feeling tense? Get a professional massage in the wellness village starting at 10am. Massages are first come, first served, so get there early and make sure you're on the list!
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Make the most of the second and last day of Blue Team Con 2026 - download the official app to info on all of the events and activities for the day. Download here: Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d… iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/blue-t…
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Interested in learning more about Linux? Want to revive an old laptop that can't handle the heavy OS that came with it? Drop into the Linux village and see how you can breathe new life into old gear, or just learn a new skill.
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Need a pick-me-up this morning? Stop into the Zurich Foyer at 8:30am for our Coffee & Tea Break, sponsored by our friends at StoneX.
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How's your singing? Bad? It doesn’t matter because that's half the fun! Come to talk track 1 to sing your heart out at Karaoke from 11 to ???.
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Not into the party scene? That's cool too! Come unwind tonight in talk track 3 at 9pm with some board games - no Cones of Dunshire (or alcohol) allowed, we promise.
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Let's dance! Tunes at tonight's party will be provided by DJ Shonar, a fellow hacker and a fantastic DJ. Come unwind in talk track 1 at 9pm and maybe tear up the dance floor a bit!
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Come onnnn down and be a part of this year's gameshows with Tib3rius and C3rul34n in Talk Track 1, starting at 7!
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Have you visited our sponsors this year? Get your card stamped at all of them and be entered to win some awesome prizes [like a Nintendo Switch, a Bluetooth speaker, and more]!
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How about our spectacular Keynote Speaker, Ian Coldwater?! What was your favorite part of their presentation?
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Stomach rumbling? We've brought in some new lunch options this year - today we'll have Mexican and BBQ food trucks visiting outside. Go check them out!
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It's not too late - download the Blue Team Con app and get access to the talk schedule, conference event info, and more. Get it here: Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d… iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/blue-t…
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Feeling spry? Join Matt Abahazi and the Mental Health Hackers team for their second annual 9 Bridge Challenge! Meet up tomorrow (the 13th) outside of the hotel lobby at 8am - soles hit the ground at 8:15am. Walkers, joggers, and runners are welcome!
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If you slept on our training sessions this year, you really missed out! From teaching new business cyberdefense tactics, to roundtable discussions with experienced CISOs, this year's trainings were top notch. Make sure to consider next year's sessions - you won't regret it.
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[Last Minute] Capture The Flag registration opens NOW! Sign up and get a head start on the competition. btcon.link/CTF
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Take a few deep breaths… OK now GET PUMPED! We're just one day away from the year's biggest event (for cybersecurity defenders…)!
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Blue Team Con 2026 is nearing - have you downloaded our app yet? Put all of this year's important information in your pocket before you arrive - get the app here: Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d… iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/blue-t…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: The End is Just the Beginning of Better Security: Enhancing Vulnerability Management with OpenEoX Presented by: Justin Murphy Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: LLMs - How to Trust When We Can’t Verify Presented by: Stephanie Losi Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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NEW for 2026 - we have an app! Before you get to Blue Team Con, download it to see the talk schedule, extracurricular events, & more. It syncs with the itinerary you already created on Sched too! Get it here: Android : play.google.com/store/apps/d… iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/blue-t…
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We're just 5 days away from the ONLY conference for (and by) defenders. What're you looking forward to the most?
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: The Demon Dog of Defense in Depth Presented by: Aria Langer Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: Make the Governed Path the Apparent One Presented by: Johnathon Rhoades Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: The Second Front: Detecting LOTL Off the Endpoint Presented by: Mark Orlando Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🍴 Who's hungry? By popular demand, this year at Blue Team Con we're bringing you more lunch options to choose from - BBQ, wood fired pizza, and Mexican food trucks will be parked outside at lunch time. Check out the schedule to see exactly when each will be around.
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: Beyond The Auth Artifacts Identifying Intrusions by Correlating Identity and EDR Telemetry Presented by: Shogo Hayashi & Teruki Yoshikawa Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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Looking to sharpen your threat hunting, system forensics, and incident handling skills? Join CQURE CEO & Founder, Paula Januszkiewicz for a 2-day training at this year's Blue Team Con. Learn more and register here: blueteamcon.com/blue-team-co…
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We're excited to partner with IANS to bring a CISO Roundtable to Blue Team Con 2026! Discussions will touch on board relationships, agentic AI, aligning business and defense, budgeting, and more. Get the details and register here: iansresearch.com/join-ians-a…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: CISA’s Menu for Vulnerability Management Presented by: Justin Murphy & Julia Turkevich Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: Your User, Their Rules: Rethinking the OS trust model for the AI-era Presented by: Golan Myers & Ofir Balassiano Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: Strength in Diversity: Building an Inclusive Cybersecurity Workforce Presented by: Rick Hudson Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: Using Pentest Findings to Improve Detections Presented by: Ashley Knowles Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: Behaviour-Driven Detection for Software Supply Chain Exploitation Presented by: Niladri Sekhar Hore Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: Threat Intelligence at the Speed of Cyber Defense Presented by: Joe Slowik Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🎶 Tunes at this year's Saturday Night Party will be provided by fellow hacker and Blue Teamer, @chimeracoder (AKA DJ Shonar)! While you count down the days to Blue Team Con 2026 you check out his mixes here: soundcloud.com/djshonar
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: So You Want to Be a Forensicator.... Presented by: Dr. Catherine J. Ullman Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: Zero Trust After the Breach: Lessons from Real-World Incident Response Presented by: Andrea Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: From Logs to Logic: Building Detections That Don’t Suck Presented by: Kyle Barboza Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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Blue Team Con 2026 is proud to announce Dux as the Swag Bag Sponsor.
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: The Only Way to Win Is by Learning: Deception Design, Read Through a Comedy Game Show Presented by: Dylan Shroll Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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Blue Team Con 2026 is proud to announce @PicusSecurity as a Silver Sponsor.
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: Vibe Check: Scaling AppSec in an AI-Driven World Presented by: Cory Roop Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: Purple Testing Is Not Enough — Why CTEM Is the Missing Layer Presented by: Irina Dimitrov (Loktionova) Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: Beyond the SIEM: Critical Governance and Architecture Decisions for Modern SOCs Presented by: Bart Stump & Jeremy Croghan Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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Blue Team Con is proud to partner with WiCyS again this year! Learn more about their mission and find out more about all of our partners here: blueteamcon.com/blue-team-co…
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Blue Team Con 2026 is proud to announce @AcalvioTech as a Silver Sponsor.
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The IoT Village is back again for Blue Team Con 2026! Drop in for talks about securing IoT devices, labs, bug hunting, and more. Get more info here: blueteamcon.com/villages-blu…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: AI-Assisted IR Without the Lies: A Browser Forensics Case Study Presented by: Kyle Henson & Aaron Hau Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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The Wellness Village is back again for 2026! Sponsored by Mental Health Hackers, this village will hold talks about mental health struggles in cybersecurity, and how you can manage them best. Learn more: blueteamcon.com/villages-blu…
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Are you multilingual and feeling chatty? Join us for our first ever Cyber Polyglots Village at Blue Team Con 2026! Learn more: blueteamcon.com/villages-blu…
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title:  Same Network, Different Worlds: Bridging the IT Ops and SOC Divide Presented by: Sameer Singhal Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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Blue Team Con 2026 is proud to announce Kano Cyber Institute as a Bronze Sponsor.
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: Entra the Dragon: Entra ID Red vs. Blue Presented by: Sean Metcalf Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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Time is running out to take advantage of the Blue Team Con room block pricing. Get your room for $229/night if you book at the link below before 8/20 (or before they run out of rooms). Don't get stuck staying off-site - book now! btcon.link/roomblock
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Blue Team Con 2026 is proud to announce Aikido as a Silver Sponsor.
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title:  Trusted, But Dangerous Identity Abuse Through First-Party Apps in Entra Presented by: Jon Haas Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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Blue Team Con is proud to partner with Sober in Cyber again in 2026. Make sure to join them for the Saturday Night Games event at this year's con! Learn more about them and all of our partners here: blueteamcon.com/blue-team-co…
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Blue Team Con 2026 is proud to announce Spectrum Security as a Gold Sponsor.
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🚨Blue Team Con 2026 Talk Alert🚨 Talk Title: Slaying the Sprawl: A Hero's Guide to Building (or Re-Forging) a Cloud Security Program Without a 20-Person Guild Presented by: Steve Turner Learn more and see all 2026 talks: blueteamcon.com/talks-blue-t…
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Blue Team Con is proud to partner once more with Black Girls Hack in 2026! Learn more about their mission [and about all of our partners] here: blueteamcon.com/blue-team-co…
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