An archive of talks from previous NoCo Hackers meetups.

January 2026#

Silence of the Logs - Detecting Log Pipeline Issues in AWS/Azure

Speaker: Ryan Thompson

This talk will walk through real-world defense impairment techniques across AWS and Azure. We’ll dig into what it looks like when attackers suppress their own IPs in GuardDuty, redirect CloudTrail logs to buckets they control, tamper with Azure diagnostic settings, or disable Defender entirely.