LE No. 25: CTFs and DFIR!?

Weekly Update May 27th 2025

Welcome to our weekly Level Effect newsletter, designed to keep you informed and updated on our latest activities! Thank you for tuning in. 📺

Hello Defender !

Do you remember our Cyber Defense CTF from last year?

Do you like DFIR?

We have some nice updates for you then.

Let’s dive in!

Table of Contents

Brand

CTF Time!

ContinuumCon will be the next place you can get a taste of the same type of CTF content we delivered last year for our own Cyber Defense CTF!

June 20-22 will be the date.

Expect lots of defensive tradecraft focused content!

CTF Contributors

  • Want to get involved with Level Effect and John Hammond for ContinuumCon?

  • Ever wanted to create a CTF challenge?

  • Looking for experience to put on a resume?

  • Want to get more involved in the community?

Let us know if you’re interested in contributing to the CTF! Just email us back or reach out on Discord and we’ll get you sorted out with what we’re looking for.

We’ll also give you a free Guardian Defender ticket (or refund yours if you already bought it) if you’re accepted! 🔥

CDA DFIR Approaches - May 30th!

It’s finally ready! We’re always working behind the scenes on things here and we’re happy to reveal that the DFIR module for CDA is now ready.

Velociraptor, Volatility, Network Miner, osquery - yes it’s DFIR time!

If you own CDA you’ll see it go live this Friday, otherwise you can pick up the Cyber Defense Analyst course here below.

Workshop Stories

Stay tuned this week and the days up the ContinuumCon where we are going to have some highlights on social media on each workshop!

We’re also going to see some live streams interviewing the authors of some of them. Stay tuned…

ContinuumCon - Late Submissions

Reminder - we are also still accepting late submissions.

Yes - this is the con that never ends. We may still be able to get a few in that can persist as on-demand workshops well after the conference for all the lifetime ticket holders.

Link below! 👇

Content

Threat Hunting Recording

Pentesting & Application Security May 31st

James Jolley will be taking you into the basics of the AppSec space with a focus on Pentesting. He is one seriously skilled individual and you’re going to want to come hang out with us this weekend!

Reverse Engineering June 7th

We’ve moved the Reverse Engineering stream to the following weekend to space out the content a bit as well as balance working on all the back-end items as of late.

Keep learning, keep defending.


The Level Effect Team

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