Workshops

Hands-on, practical security

BSides Burlington workshops are hands-on sessions where you build real, usable skills — not just watch slides. Led by practitioners, they run in parallel with the talks so you can choose your own adventure throughout the day.

The kinds of topics we love

Offensive

Web and network exploitation, recon, privilege escalation, and red-team tradecraft you can try yourself.

Defensive

Detection engineering, threat hunting, log analysis, incident response, and hardening.

Foundations

Beginner-friendly intros — from your first shell to your first packet capture.

What to bring

  • A laptop you can install tools on (or run a VM)
  • Any prerequisites the workshop lists in advance
  • Curiosity and a willingness to break things in a safe environment

Workshop seats are often limited, so arrive early for the ones you really want. The full line-up will be announced with the schedule.

Got a workshop to run?

Pitch your hands-on session through our Call for Papers — first-time instructors welcome.