Opportunity Open Source Conference 4.0 in the IIIT Allahabad

Become a Digital Detective: Solving a Real Cyber Attack with Velociraptor

Aug 29, 2026, 10:40 AM

40m

Room 2

Talk (40 min) Security

Speaker

Aditya D

Description

In this story-driven session, attendees will step into the role of a digital forensic investigator and use Velociraptor, an open-source Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) platform, to investigate a simulated cyber attack from start to finish. Rather than presenting features slide by slide, we'll work through a realistic incident, collecting forensic artifacts, querying endpoints with VQL, uncovering persistence mechanisms, analysing Windows event logs, and reconstructing the attack timeline to understand exactly what happened.Along the way, attendees will learn how modern incident response teams approach investigations, how Velociraptor enables rapid threat hunting at scale, and why open-source DFIR tooling has become an essential part of today's defensive security toolkit.

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By the end of this session, attendees will be able to: Understand the fundamentals of Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR)
Deploy and navigate Velociraptor for endpoint investigations Use VQL to collect and analyse forensic artifacts Identify common persistence mechanisms used by attackers Build an attack timeline from forensic evidence Apply open-source tools to investigate security incidents without commercial EDR solutions.

Session author's bio

I am a Cloud DevOps Engineer and cybersecurity practitioner currently pursuing a Master's in Cybersecurity at the University of Sydney. With over two years of industry experience, I specialize in cloud security, DevSecOps, incident response, and platform engineering. Beyond his professional work, I am an active contributor to the open-source and cybersecurity communities, mentoring hackathons, delivering technical workshops, and speaking on topics ranging from AWS security and AI to digital forensics and threat hunting. I enjoy building hands-on, story-driven security experiences that help make complex cybersecurity concepts accessible to everyone. My accomplishments include 11 research papers on AI and Cybersecurity, 60+ blogs on various topics ranging from Software Engineering to Security , Featured on Times Square NY for being the top mentor in DevOps Field, featured in cyber kings magazine and also awarded the young achiever in devops and cybersecurity by cyber kings magazine. Have previously spoken in webinars, podcasts, Gnome Asia 2024, Ubucon India 2025 and many more.