Scared myself into action, and did a public talk

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Asked a colleague who runs the local 2600 club (https://malmo.2600.se/) if they had any vacant spot for a talker. Turns out they had one in about 2 months time, which sparked me into action and yeah got a crazy to build a proper "purple-team homelab".

Purple = red + blue , where red = attacking team and blue, defending.

meaning i have hackers (run by ai) attacking an enterprise AD structure that i've set up with services, servers and users, and i have defenders watching their every packet and footstep , detecting what the hacker did, when, where, how , and recommendation on how to prevent it.

I Further developed GOAD, Game Of Active Directory into SAGA , Star wars Active directory Galactic Arena, to have more features and ways to deploy it. Basically i was trying to replicate Hack The Box - Professional Labs, but with ai.

the tagline while building was "by ai , for ai" and it's been pretty educational , since i started it due to "AI FOMO"

then it became this "frankenstein" of a lab where i've basically thrown in whatever that sounds like fun, from a cybersecurity perspective.

and well, on friday i finally did it :) more people than expected turned up, and i think they liked it xD

the presentation slides for those interested: https://malmo.2600.se/pages/June2026

(and for the extra nerdy ones, the architecture and more info lives at: https://kryssar.se/)

my way to kind of "give back to the community" :)

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