Jason Slagle
Infrastructure/Security ninja
Perrysburg, Ohio, United States
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Jason Slagle is President of CNWR, a cybersecurity and IT consulting firm in Toledo, Ohio. He started in systems and network administration, built automation pipelines before they were trendy, and eventually moved headfirst into cybersecurity leadership.
Today, he helps organizations secure their infrastructure, rethink how they automate, and stop making preventable mistakes. He speaks frequently on cybersecurity, automation, and the uncomfortable truths about how the IT consulting industry operates.
Jason is known for being direct, occasionally snarky, and allergic to corporate buzzwords. He believes transparency makes the industry better, even when it makes him unpopular.
Graduate of the University of Toledo. President by title. Technologist at heart.
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Binary Analysis - Learn to break stuff
In this Pre-Compiler, we'll take a dive into the world of reverse engineering.
We'll start with DotPeek and reverse engineer a handful of binaries, starting with simple and ending with somewhat more complex examples with some obfuscation. We'll also discuss problems in these tools and techniques malware authors use to avoid analysis.
Afterward, we'll really get our feet wet with Ghidra. We'll look into reversing some C binaries, C++, and Go.
If time allows, we'll look into more complicated examples of malware analysis and level up skills all around.
Some knowledge of C# and x86 assembly is helpful but not required! Come out for a half day of reverse engineering fun!
People Are the Prompt Injection
This session seeks to flip the normal AI script. Most AI talks discuss threat actors using AI, or how to stop it. In this talk we flip it back to the basics. People and process.
In this talk we will aim to let people distinguish AI policy from governance, recognize patterns that cause this to fail, and reframe AI risk as a people and process problem, not a tooling problem.
Stuck as a Skill - Using CTFs to learn tech skills
Learning tech skills can be hard. What if we could gamify it in a way that made it interesting to learn, and kept kids generally interested? Capture the Flag challenges do exactly that, and they work for kids and adults alike.
We'll start with what a Capture the Flag is, focusing on Jeopardy-style challenges that are approachable if you're new to this. Most of the two hours is you working challenges yourself while I walk the room, and they get harder as you go, so there's room to run if you already write code.
When you get stuck, and you will, we'll talk about what to do next: what to look up, what to try, and how to tell a dead end from something you just haven't cracked yet. That's the part nobody really teaches you, and it's what you should walk out with, a way to approach problems you've never seen before.
Bring a laptop, you'll need it.
From “Oh S**t” to “I’ve Got This” - A brutally honest panel on getting shoved into leadership
One day, you're neck-deep in systems or spreadsheets. The next, you're managing people, owning outcomes, and pretending you have a plan. Welcome to leadership! I hope you survive onboarding.
In this unscripted, no-fluff panel, a technical leader and a former ops pro turned community builder compare notes on what it’s really like to get pushed into management. Through hard lessons, big wins, and plenty of “well, that didn’t work” moments, we’ll explore how you go from winging it to leading with clarity.
We’ll cover:
The messy shift from doer to decider
Leading without a playbook (or permission)
Mistakes that taught us the most
Figuring out your leadership style
Whether to stay in the weeds - or not
Expect honesty, useful takeaways, and zero corporate jargon.
Binary Analysis for noobs - An Intro to Reverse Engineering
Do you often find yourself wondering how security researchers discover bugs in systems? How do they earn bug bounties by examining existing software? Are you struggling in CTF challenges whenever you are fed a binary? If so this session is for you!
In this session, the attendees will look at an introduction to reverse engineering and binary analysis. This session will specifically focus on Ghidra and dotPeek to show how to decompile or disassemble Linux C binaries and .NET binaries for analysis. Specific focus will also be given to solving CTF challenges using these tools as a method of practicing and improving your skills.
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