Melina Phillips
Melina Phillips is an Offensive Security Engineer with a background in Security Operations and Incident Detection. She has over ten years of IT experience and six years working directly in cybersecurity, blending hands on blue team work with her current focus on adversary simulation and endpoint compromise.
Her recent talks have been featured at Bsides Cambridge, Security Fest, BruCon and LeHack. She's known for making complex technical concepts accessible without watering them down, and for delivering practical insights grounded in real world attack and defense experience.
Outside of breaking into infrastructure and chasing down Linux threats, she's usually at CrossFit or playing with makeup, ideally not at the same time.
Session
It's one of those mornings. You just crushed your early workout, feeling all kinds of invincible, you're halfway through your first sip of coffee, mentally planning your day, when your SOC team drops a bombshell: Suspicious activity has been detected on a critical system. Suddenly, it's not the caffeine waking you up, it's sheer panic!!
But let’s be real—cyber drama is inevitable. What separates the pros from the panicked is how we respond. In the Linux world, post-compromise activity isn’t just a mess; it’s a story waiting to be told. From tracking suspicious IPs and unexpected file creations to analyzing logs and identifying rogue services, our job is to piece together exactly what happened and how.
Because let's face it, while trends come and go, resilience never goes out of style. Join me in this session as we turn the chaos into clarity and decode the drama, and maybe even add a little sparkle to incident response.