Tuesday, October 28, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM CT
STEAK LUNCH INCLUDED
Location:
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar The Domain
11600 Century Oaks Terrace
STE 140
Austin, TX 78758
Join Intel 471 along with Austin’s top cybersecurity industry experts and esteemed peers at this exclusive vendor-neutral UnConference.
This event will take you through an immersive demonstration of how to Operationalize Threat Hunting through CTI. Discover how experts combine exclusive CTI insights and pair them with unparalleled behavioral threat hunt capabilities to defend against the industry’s top threats. Our keynote speaker, Bart Lauwers, a respected leader with 20+ years of experience across municipal and enterprise cybersecurity, will offer a behind-the-scenes look at how the City of Austin manages enterprise-scale security operations on a limited budget, while safeguarding multiple critical infrastructure sectors.
Following our exclusive keynote presentation, Mike Mitchell, SVP of Threat Hunt Intelligence, and Garrett Carstens, SVP of Intelligence Operations will discuss some observed correlations between access broker offers and ransomware or data extortion victims. They will then dig into the specifics of one prevalent access broker's background and TTPs-- with the goal of operationalizing intel to hunt for the actor within your network.
Following the sessions, we invite you to join the team for optional networking and drinks.
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM: Welcome by Jason Passwaters | Chief Executive Officer
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM: Doing More with Less: Running Security Operations at the City of Austin by Bart Lauwers | Cybersecurity Officer, City of Austin
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM: Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Test Your Threat Actor Knowledge: "Is it Real or Fake?" by Michael DeBolt | Chief Intelligence Officer
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Intel + Hunting: Countering Ransomware-Enabling IABs by Garrett Carstens and Mike Mitchell | SVP of Intel Operations and SVP of Threat Hunt Intelligence
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM: Interactive Roundtable Discussions by Michael DeBolt | Chief Intelligence Officer
* Optional Networking to follow
Bart Lauwers | Cybersecurity Officer, City of Austin
Bart Lauwers is the Cybersecurity Officer for the City of Austin, where he leads Security Operations, Architecture, and Engineering. He oversees the City’s Security Operations Center (SOC), Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, and Digital Forensics programs. With more than two decades of experience across municipal and enterprise cybersecurity, Bart has driven the City’s modernization efforts, including its migration to Elastic SIEM, integration of OpenCTI for intelligence-driven defense, and expansion of automation and analytics capabilities. A recipient of the (ISC)² President’s Award, he is recognized for advancing collaborative, pragmatic cybersecurity approaches in the public sector.
Jason Passwaters | Chief Executive Officer
Jason, CEO, and co-founder of Intel 471, brings 24 years of experience, including construction of the Global Research department at iSIGHT Partners (now FireEye), who tracked the world’s most sophisticated cybercriminals in federal law enforcement, and conducted tactical intel collection through military operations. Jason is a proud 12 year veteran of the U.S Marine Corps.
Michael DeBolt | Chief Intelligence Officer
Michael DeBolt is the Chief Intelligence Officer at Intel 471, leading a global team of CTI experts tracking financially-motivated bad actors to protect customers. He has served as the Head of Cybercrime Intelligence at INTERPOL and led cyber counterintelligence operations at U.S. NCIS. Michael is also a proud U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
Garrett Carstens | Senior Vice President, Intelligence Operations
Garrett Carstens as the Senior Vice President of Intel Operations at Intel 471 coordinates internal and cross-departmental initiatives focused on optimizing timely and relevant intelligence production and delivery. Prior to joining Intel 471, Garrett spent over 15 years in various roles within the U.S. Department of Defense and the financial sector– always with a primary mission of identifying, analyzing and mitigating cyber threats.
Mike Mitchell | Senior Vice President, Threat Hunt Intelligence
Mike is Senior Vice President of Threat Hunt Intelligence, and prior to joining Intel 471 he was a co-founder of recently acquired threat hunting provider, Cyborg Security. While at Cyborg, he was a cross-functional founder focused on technical implementation, sales, product architecture, and managing the content development team and its deliverables. Mike has 12 + years of diverse cyber security experience from Senior Solutions and Security Engineer, Director of Sales Engineering to Co-Founder of Cyborg Security. Prior to his career in cyber security, Mike spent a number of years in pro baseball with the Colorado Rockies.
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