MEMSEC - DEFCON901 - Memphis InfoSec social #30
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Come join us in room 225 at the Fedex Institute of Technology (FIT) at the UofM campus!
Most Linux systems are configured through layers of manual changes, scattered config files, and hope. NixOS takes a radically different approach: your entire Linux environment, every tool, every config, every service, declared in code, version-controlled, and reproducible down to the bit.
This month, John Dorion gives us a practical introduction to building reproducible cybersecurity labs with Nix and NixOS. We'll cover how the Nix ecosystem works, from the package manager and language to flakes and declarative OS configuration, and walk through building a custom images. Beyond the fundamentals, we'll explore why this matters for security practitioners:
- Eliminating 'works on my machine' problems for CTFs, training, and workshops
- Building custom images and containers preloaded with your exact cybersecurity toolkit or the perfect vulnerable environment
- Building development/hacking environments that activate on a directory change
- Learning about the state of the hacking ecosystem in Nix/NixOS and how to navigate fragmented documentation
This meetup is FREE and open to the public with Garibaldi's pizza!