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Alethe Denis, Senior Security Consultant II at Bishop Fox joins the panel "Inside the Hacker's Mind: Cybersecurity, Culture, and the Code Behind the Chaos." Come see real-world hacking expertise go head-to-head with Hollywood's version of it — grab a seat and find out just how much (or how little) pop culture actually gets right.

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"Inside the Hacker's Mind: Cybersecurity, Culture, and the Code Behind the Chaos"

Speaker: Alethe Denis, Senior Security Consultant II

Abstract: Hacking has become one of pop culture's favorite obsessions, from the slow-motion keystrokes of Mr. Robot to the open-world chaos of Watch Dogs. But how much of that portrayal holds up against the way hacking actually works?

This panel brings together security practitioners and comic creators to dig into the gap between cinematic hacking and the real thing, drawing on how social engineering, pretexting, and AI-driven exploits are reshaping both the threat landscape and the stories told about it — and where pop culture gets the human side of hacking right, and where it doesn't.

Alethe Denis, a social engineering expert and DEF CON Black Badge winner, joins fellow panelists John Strand (founder and owner, Black Hills Information Security), Adam Cecchetti (information security expert), and Jennifer Isacoff (DEF CON Black Badge winner) for a conversation moderated by Joseph Keatinge, editor of REKCAH Comics.