We would like to extend our sincerest apologies to this year’s CTF participants for the events that transpired on November 21. It is important that we share with the community what went wrong, what we learned, and what steps we will take to prevent such incidents from happening again in the future. Below you will find the writeup from NCPTF’s Cloud Operations team, who engineered and hosted this year’s CTF.
TALKS & WORKSHOPS
SUPPORT OUR MISSION
conINT 2021 is an fundraising event benefiting the National Child Protection Task Force (NCPTF), a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit, that provides detectives, analysts, and other law enforcement with access to investigative expertise and resources to support missing and exploited persons investigations.
OSINT CTF
Day 2 of conINT gives attendees an opportunity to directly apply their newly learned skills as part of our OSINT CTF! More information on the CTF, including registration information, will be made available soon.
FEATURED SPEAKERS FOR conINT 2021
TJ Null
TJ is the community manager for Offensive Security and is a pentester in the private sector. He’s very passionate about red team development and supporting open source projects like Kali Linux. TJ earned a BS in Cybersecurity from the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) where he is a board member for the award-winning UMUC Cyber Padawans. Over the years, he has participated in over 250 cybersecurity competitions across the globe and is a two-time SANS Netwars Champion. You can find TJ on a variety of community platforms.
Rae Baker
Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae) is passionate about corporate reconnaissance and scam/fraud tracking and currently works as an Open Source Intelligence Analyst for a large consulting firm. As an OSINT Curious Advisory Board member, Rae also works closely with other OSINT practitioners in the field to educate and inspire within the OSINT community. Additionally, she is the Open Source Intelligence team lead with Operation Safe Escape, which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit comprised of security professionals tasked with keeping domestic violence victims hidden from their abusers, a volunteer with Innocent Lives Foundation, as well as a Senior Judge for Trace Labs.
Nicole Beckwith
Ms. Beckwith is a former state police officer, and federally sworn U.S. Marshal. She worked as a financial fraud Investigator and digital forensic examiner for the State of Ohio and a Task Force Officer for the United States Secret Service in their Financial and Electronic Crimes division as an incident responder and digital forensic examiner. She is also Ohio’s first certified female police sniper.

Luke Phillips
Luke Phillips is the UK’s National Crime Agency Liaison Officer based in New York. He has over 21 years of law enforcement experience in a wide range of intelligence gathering and investigative disciplines, working both nationally and internationally. With 15 years’ experience as a detective, advising, mentoring, managing and developing both reactive and proactive investigations, he has secured convictions with sentences totaling several hundred years across almost every crime type imaginable. In Luke’s current role he works alongside the FBI in the National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance, specialising in the investigation of serious and complex cybercrimes. He holds a First Class Honours Degree in Applied Investigation.
conINT 2021 SCHEDULE
Two Feds having a virtual “fireside” chat about what keeps us up at night.
A conversation between the FBI and NCA about all things cyber.
Lots of opportunities to ask questions, so start thinking.
conINT 2021 Closing Keynote. Nicole will discuss some of the more common types biases in intelligence. She will then dive into the intelligence cycle and how biases can creep into each stage and ultimately give us bad intelligence. Nicole will then discuss how we combat these biases and tips for analysts and managers on the ways to spot bias ahead of a bad incident.
Dan Sampayo has been DJing in various night clubs in London, Brighton and the South Coast for 24 years playing at legendary clubs such as Ministry Of Sound, Turnmills, The Honey Club, The Concorde, The Escape Club, Audio and his residencies at The Q Club and 3TO. He also produces tunes and had a few remixes released.
Considering current conditions he’s had a pretty good summer playing at Block, Brighton and The Volks a fair few times as well as for Cyber House Party, BeerCon3 and IsolationCon2 after parties!
Access information and registration will be available in the event portal on Eventbrite. Please check your registration email for the Online Event Portal link.
Latest News
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 – Due to a series of scheduling conflicts and delays, including the National Child Protection Task Force’s ongoing Operation Chivalrous Knight, the conINT board has opted to re-schedule our 2021 event to November 20-21, 2021. Rescheduling the conference from October to November will allow the event team additional time to handle administrative activities, including CTF development, speaker recruitment, and sponsorship sales.
OCTOBER 10, 2020 – Closing out conINT 2020 is none other than acclaimed nerdcore artist YTCracker. A former “cracker” turned rapper, MC and DJ, YTCracker is considered by many to be one of the originators of nerdcore. Outside of music, YTCracker is a respected information security professional, serving in roles ranging from advisor to CISO. YTCracker’s performance will start immediately following the conclusion of conINT 2020’s closing keynote.