[Dailydave] Dry Runs

[Jacob Torrey]

Great tips, I also want to give a shout-out for trying the LaTeX beamer [1]
package, lets you focus on content, and not layout, as well as structure
your thoughts into a hierarchy using sections, subsections, etc. and it
will automatically add progress and tracking to each slide, letting the
audience see the "big picture" at a glance.

- Jacob

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_%28LaTeX%29

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Dave Aitel <dave at immunityinc.com> wrote:

> When hacking professionally, you model everything very carefully, run
> your tools and methodology against the systems, and then revisit
> multiple times as you optimize against your known defensive threats.
> That's just how professionals work. And I find it funny that INFILTRATE
> is the first conference in our sphere that requires a pre-conference
> WebEx dry run. I'm going to bullet-list a few things we see a lot just
> so everyone knows:
>
> 1. Use Prezi. You don't HAVE to because I know it makes you feel like a
> hippie, but it also makes for better presentations. This is for three
> reasons:
>    a. Zoom. Zoom. MORE ZOOM. Zoom is the most key feature in a
> presentation but so few people use it because in every other
> presentation software it is super impossible to do.
>    b. Hierarchical presentations. PPT and Keynote take your nice
> pyramid-like thoughts which are connected naturally and then flatten
> them into a line of slides. You get a MUCH better presentation by being
> able to subtly show the true shape of your thoughts.
>    c. It is much easier and faster to create a Prezi than a good PPT.
> This means more time thinking about what you are trying to represent and
> less time fixing how big the fonts are in slide 50.
>
> That doesn't mean there aren't downsides to Prezi. But overall it is a
> massive step forwards.
>
> 2. Contrast in your text. No more yellow on white please. People's eyes
> are not good and what you see on a washed out projection is not as good
> as what you see on your screen.
>
> 3. Gliffy.com . That way your diagrams look great and you have MORE of
> them. More diagrams done more easily usually makes for a much better
> presentation.
>
> 4. Be more offensive. Don't worry as much about SELLING your idea but
> think more about showing the metrics behind your success. We usually ask
> at the end for more NUMBERS. How does your technique compare to other
> things that generate numbers? Feel free to call people out. You can name
> names in your research. You can say "I dont' think this works the way
> they say it does."
>
> 5. Think bigger picture. So many people talk about their technique but
> don't talk about what that level of success means for the larger world.
> We want to see "if the level of effort for X is so small, what does that
> mean for people trying Y?" What are the defenders going to do next to
> stop you? Is this something really easy for them, or really hard?
>
> 6. People do movies instead of demos, but they make the font in the
> movie terminals the default, instead of GIANT SO BIG FONT THAT WE CAN
> SEE IT. Please when you make a demo movie for a presentation, make the
> fonts 20% larger than you think they need to be for a blind person to
> read them from the back row.
>
> 7. More screenshots, with big fonts in them. People love to see
> screenshots because they illustrate your bullet-list points very clearly
> sometimes (i.e. what are the arguments to that thing you wrote again?).
>
> -dave
>
>
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