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Sept. 30, 2025
8:30 am – 11:30 am AI DIY Speed Run – Build Your Own AI Tools for Pentesting in No Time at All –
Betta Lyon Delsordo, OnDefend Fee: $39
(pre-registration required - FULL as of 9/15)
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10:30 am – 12:30 pm Registration & Onsite Check-in (NECE Rm 415)
11:00 am Lunch for pre-registered participants (NECE Rm 415)
12:30 pm Welcome (ATC 109): Dan Kruger, 2025 CyberCon Chair and
Dan Leingang, Interim BSC President
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Opening Keynote
Implementing the CIS Security Controls in the EDU World –
Randy Marchany, Virginia Tech
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm Breakout Set A
- It’s Giving Insecure Vibes: Secure Coding Literacy for Vibe Coders – Betta Lyon Delsordo, OnDefend
- Data as the Bedrock: Unlocking the Potential of AI – Kim Weis, NDIT
- Why Engineers Need Soft Skills in the Age of AI – Faith Harron, Esper Collective
- Recognizing Digital Citizenship Week: October 20-24, 2025 – Kathy Cline, North Dakota State Library
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Break with Sponsors
3:30 pm – 4:15 pm Breakout Set B
- Silent Storm: Lessons from a Three-Year Botnet That Stayed Below the Radar – Kyle Emmel, NDIT
- CANCELLED Image & Video Forensics: Deep fake Detection with AI – Smit Nayak, Sypram Software LLC
- Carbon Capture and Storage 101 – John Brunner, Energy & Environmental Research Center
- Cyber Escape: A Breakout Box – Tyler Ward and Katie Larson, EduTech/NDIT
4:30 pm – 4:35 pm Day 1 Closing Announcements - Dan Krueger, CyberCon 2025 Chairman
4:35 pm – 5:00 pm TechND Awards
Oct. 1, 2025
7:15 am – 8:00 am Breakfast (NECE Rm 415)
8:00 am – 8:15 am Welcome
8:30 am – 9:30 am Day 2 Morning Keynote
Cyber Threats in 2025: How They Impact You and Your Business
and How to Be Prepared – Rachel Wilson, Morgan Stanley
9:45 am – 10:30 am Breakout Set C
- Risk Exceptions and KPIs: What to Report Upstream - Cody Delzer, SBS CyberSecurity
- A Tale of the Voser: You’re Doing Vendor Risk Wrong - Uriah Burchinal, ESRI
- AI: Social Connectivity and Mental Health - Professor Dennis Cooley, North Dakota State University
- Best Practices for Records Management, Retention, and Data Cleanup – Aimee Bader, NDIT
10:45 am – 11:30 am Breakout Set D
- TTP Treasure Hunt: Mining VXUG for Red Team Tactics – Jason Lang, TrustedSec
- Weathering the Storm: Infrastructure Vulnerabilities and Promising Meteorological Advancements for Resiliency – Chauncy Schultz, National Weather Service
- ND Cyber Blueprint 2.0: Powering What’s Next – Chuck Gardner, EnterpriseKC
- AI in Ed: The Sum of All Fears – Randy Marchany, Virginia Tech
11:30 am – 12:15 pm Lunch (NECE Rm 415)
12:15 pm – 1:10 pm Lunch Speaker
Disrupting the Silence: Crowdsourcing OSINT to Bring the Missing Home –
Alex Minster, Kyriba Corporation
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm Breakout Set E
- What Your Phone Tell Us - Mobile Forensics at Dakota State University – Eli Ehresmann & Will Campbell, Dakota State University
- National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium – Tom Prauger, Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (NUARI)
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Evan & Ganya Anderson, Gizmonics, LLC
- Emerging Technologies Strategy: Separating the Hype from the Technology for Best Value – Moderator: Marcus Fries, Bismarck State College, Panelists: Seth Arndorfer, Dakota Carrier Networks, Rick Geloff, Bank of North Dakota, Dyke Boese, MDU Resources Group, John Mann, Grand Farm/Emerging Prairie
2:30 pm – 3:15 pm Breakout Set F
- Elevated OSINT – Alex Minster, Kyriba Corporation
- Digital Breadcrumbs in Chrome's Browser History – Chase Berry, NDIT
- Cybersecurity at the Crossroads: Navigating AI, Blockchain, and Quantum Computing Through Compliance – Ed Ko, CampusGuard
- Understanding the Differences Between Industrial Control System Environments vs IT and What That Means for Security and IT Specialists – Allen Maize
3:30 pm – 3:50 pm Chairman's Award for Excellence and CyberCon Hall of Fame
3:55 pm – 4:55 pm Closing Keynote
Behind Every Threat: Understanding the Human Element in Cyber and
Physical Security – Robert Gaskamp, True Companies
5:00 pm Closing and Reminders
Oct. 2, 2025
8:00 am – 5:00 pm AWR-428 Practical Internet of Things (loT) Security - NUARI
This session is free (pre-registration is required)