SecTalks Adelaide May 2026

We are back (again) 👀

SecTalks is once again partnering with Flinders University to present this month's meetup at the Flinders University Festival Plaza campus.

This month's talk is...
How Attackers Play the Endpoint — and How to Break the Game
Daniel Schell - Airlock Digital - Co-founder & Chief Research Officer

What if you looked at your endpoint the way an attacker does—not as a system to defend, but as a game to win? This talk reframes modern endpoint compromise as a series of repeatable strategies drawn from a well-understood playbook. Despite the apparent complexity of malware, ransomware, and post-exploitation frameworks, most attacks rely on a small set of foundational techniques: gaining code execution, evading controls through in-memory and "living off the land" methods, and chaining these primitives to achieve persistence and impact.

Through a structured breakdown of these core "moves," this session deconstructs real-world attack patterns and shows how attackers consistently succeed—now increasingly accelerated by AI-assisted tooling. By understanding the strategy guide attackers implicitly follow, defenders can stop reacting to individual threats and instead target the underlying mechanics that make compromise possible.

The session provides concrete defensive approaches, including deny-by-default and application control strategies, that materially limit attacker options at the endpoint. The goal is simple: if you understand the rules of the game, you can start to change them

📍 Flinders Festival Plaza campus (Room TBA)
A big thank you to Flinders University for partnering with SecTalks for this month's meetup, and for the venue for this month's meetup. We welcome all university students who wish to attend.

⏰ Start Time
Networking from 5:30 PM, welcome and talk kicks off at 6:00 PM.

🍻 There will be optional networking drinks happening at Strathmore Hotel at the conclusion of the talk if you would like to join in.

😷 If you can no longer attend the event, it would be appreciated if you could release your ticket so we can plan accordingly.

⭐ What do you need to bring?
There will not be a workshop component to this meetup, so you won't need a laptop.