AI Cyber Alliance DC
Join us for another evening of cutting-edge insights into AI security and offensive operations in the DC area!
Date: May 19th Location: 8229 Boone Blvd, Tysons, VA
Food: Complimentary food and refreshments provided. Event space provided by JTEK Data Solutions. Thanks for your continued support.
What to Expect
This month's meetup features elite speakers going deep on offensive AI security, coding agent internals, and red teaming at the frontier. Whether you're a student just starting your journey in security, a seasoned industry veteran, or anywhere in between, you're welcome here.
Program Highlights
6:00 PM to 6:15 PM | Networking & Refreshments
6:15 PM to 6:45 PM | Jackson Reed – Tollbooth: Inspecting and Manipulating Coding Agents
6:45 PM to 7:15 PM | Aaron Boteler – vStrike Demo
7:15 PM to 7:45 PM | Special session from our hosts + Open networking and community building
Featured Speakers
Jackson Reed is the founder of Barding Defense and a member of BT6, a top AI red team that frontier labs engage for pre-release security testing of their models and products. He spent four years rebuilding and leading a Fortune 50 red team, and before that built and led a Department of Defense red team through NSA certification. He works at the intersection of AI and offensive operations and writes about cybersecurity and AI at twelvetables.blog.
Talk: Tollbooth: Inspecting and Manipulating Coding Agents When coding agents run on YOUR machine, how do Anthropic and OpenAI protect their thinking tokens and system prompts? What user-controlled data can be injected into system prompts? Can you enroll yourself in hidden features? Jackson will walk through these questions using Tollbooth, an open-source tool that proxies all network traffic from a coding agent and its tool calls, enabling rich rulesets for modifying traffic on the fly. The talk covers Claude Code and Codex in detail: how they work, the attack surface their traffic exposes, and how OpenAI and Anthropic protect their models and agents differently.
Aaron Boteler is the founding architect of vStrike, an IT and OT Asset Monitoring and Security Platform built to solve what he calls the "pervasive awareness" crisis in cyber defense. With more than 25 years at the intersection of cybersecurity and signals intelligence, Aaron's work spans embedded systems, full-stack development, and high-fidelity geospatial rendering for the Intelligence Community.
His core belief is that data without context is noise. vStrike exists to close that gap, transforming fragmented infrastructure telemetry into a sovereign visualization layer where operators, analysts, and autonomous agents share the same operational picture. The platform is not a dashboard. It is a mission-critical system of record for everything happening across an IT/OT environment, at the moment it happens.
Talk: This session demonstrates vStrike as an OT Industrial Asset Monitor and Security Platform, and what becomes possible when you couple it with DeepTempo's LogLLM behavioral detection stream.
The demo shows an immersive 3D rendering of an industrial range with live event replay. vStrike captures the raw telemetry and infrastructure data, then transforms it into a dynamic sovereign visualization layer: topology maps, heatmaps, and storyboards that deliver full operational visibility. DeepTempo's behavioral detections run against that data stream, and Vigil's AI agents actively query vStrike to pull the visual context they need; the what, the who, and the where, to reinforce and explain every finding.
The result is a true Security Operations Platform. AI asset health monitoring and security event replay give both agentic AI and human analysts the same ground truth, enabling faster and better-informed decisions.
Who Should Attend?
Everyone is welcome! This event is intentionally designed for all experience levels.
Why Attend?
Network with diverse professionals across the cybersecurity ecosystem
Learn from expert speakers at the frontier of AI security and offensive research
Connect with like-minded individuals passionate about security
Discover new opportunities and collaborations in the security space
Get hands-on insights into coding agent internals, attack surfaces, and AI red teaming
RSVP
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We look forward to seeing you there!