Workshops

BSidesChicago 2025 Workshops

🦩 BSidesChicago 2025 Workshops

Level Up Your Skills with Expert-Led Training
📅 October 31, 2025 – Workshop Day
Welcome to BSidesChicago 2025 Workshop Day! We’re excited to offer an incredible lineup of hands-on training sessions led by industry experts. Whether you’re looking to master malware analysis, dive into hardware hacking, or level up your OSINT skills, we’ve got you covered. Workshops are priced individually.
🎟️ Registration Now Open! (Early-bird registration pricing ends Sept 5th!)🎟️
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9
Total Workshops
4
JustHacking Exclusives
1
Full Day of Learning
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Community Workshops

Lockpick Village by Lockpick Extreme

AM & PM Sessions
BH
Bob Hermes & Christine Bachman
Lockpick Extreme
Join Bob, Christine, and the Lockpick Extreme team for an interactive 3-hour workshop designed for everyone—from complete beginners to pickers looking to sharpen their skills. Small group instruction ensures personalized guidance as you learn the art and science of lockpicking. Every participant will receive a 12-piece lockpick kit, a 5-piece progressively pinned lock set, and a repinning kit to continue practicing at home. Cost: $59 Duration: 3 hours No prior experience required—just bring your curiosity and we’ll provide the rest.
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Get Your Vault in Ship Shape: A Password Management Deep Dive with Bitwarden

Half Day
SP
Shelby Palmersheim
Technical Marketing Manager | CEH & CISSP
Tired of password chaos? In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore best practices for secure password management and take a deep dive into Bitwarden’s features. Whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned pro, you’ll get expert guidance—and live help from a Bitwarden technical marketing manager—to get your vault organized, secure, and ship shape.
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Ransomware Rampage: Gamifying Your Incident Response Playbook

Half Day
AV
Anushree Vaidya
Senior Cybersecurity Analyst – Purple Team
With the alarming rate of ransomware proliferation and triple extortion becoming the new norm, there is a stark disparity in the percentage of cyber professionals with hands-on experience in ransomware incident response. This workshop addresses this gap through a gamified ransomware playbook creation experience, offering a unique immersive experience designed to elevate participants’ skills in crafting standardized procedures enhanced by research to combat ransomware.
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Building ‘Digital Twin’ ICS Labs for Dirt Cheap

AM & PM Sessions
DM
Danielle McGuire
SecOps Observability Engineer
What’s scarier than the state of ICS/OT security? How much it would cost to build an ICS/OT lab using production-ready equipment! Fortunately, high-quality ICS/OT gear is expensive, but high-quality ICS/OT labs don’t have to be. In this workshop, participants will use Docker and OpenPLC to create ‘digital twin’ ICS labs which behave identically to production ICS systems at the network level.
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Stop Reacting, Start Predicting: Threat Modeling

Half Day
MS
Mudassir Syed
Learn what threat modeling is (and what it’s not) through real-time application. Move from reactive security to proactive threat prediction. This workshop will transform how you think about security architecture and risk assessment.
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