<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br><br></div>- Jacob<br><div><br>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_%28LaTeX%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_%28LaTeX%29</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Dave Aitel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@immunityinc.com" target="_blank">dave@immunityinc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">When hacking professionally, you model everything very carefully, run<br>
your tools and methodology against the systems, and then revisit<br>
multiple times as you optimize against your known defensive threats.<br>
That's just how professionals work. And I find it funny that INFILTRATE<br>
is the first conference in our sphere that requires a pre-conference<br>
WebEx dry run. I'm going to bullet-list a few things we see a lot just<br>
so everyone knows:<br>
<br>
1. Use Prezi. You don't HAVE to because I know it makes you feel like a<br>
hippie, but it also makes for better presentations. This is for three<br>
reasons:<br>
a. Zoom. Zoom. MORE ZOOM. Zoom is the most key feature in a<br>
presentation but so few people use it because in every other<br>
presentation software it is super impossible to do.<br>
b. Hierarchical presentations. PPT and Keynote take your nice<br>
pyramid-like thoughts which are connected naturally and then flatten<br>
them into a line of slides. You get a MUCH better presentation by being<br>
able to subtly show the true shape of your thoughts.<br>
c. It is much easier and faster to create a Prezi than a good PPT.<br>
This means more time thinking about what you are trying to represent and<br>
less time fixing how big the fonts are in slide 50.<br>
<br>
That doesn't mean there aren't downsides to Prezi. But overall it is a<br>
massive step forwards.<br>
<br>
2. Contrast in your text. No more yellow on white please. People's eyes<br>
are not good and what you see on a washed out projection is not as good<br>
as what you see on your screen.<br>
<br>
3. Gliffy.com . That way your diagrams look great and you have MORE of<br>
them. More diagrams done more easily usually makes for a much better<br>
presentation.<br>
<br>
4. Be more offensive. Don't worry as much about SELLING your idea but<br>
think more about showing the metrics behind your success. We usually ask<br>
at the end for more NUMBERS. How does your technique compare to other<br>
things that generate numbers? Feel free to call people out. You can name<br>
names in your research. You can say "I dont' think this works the way<br>
they say it does."<br>
<br>
5. Think bigger picture. So many people talk about their technique but<br>
don't talk about what that level of success means for the larger world.<br>
We want to see "if the level of effort for X is so small, what does that<br>
mean for people trying Y?" What are the defenders going to do next to<br>
stop you? Is this something really easy for them, or really hard?<br>
<br>
6. People do movies instead of demos, but they make the font in the<br>
movie terminals the default, instead of GIANT SO BIG FONT THAT WE CAN<br>
SEE IT. Please when you make a demo movie for a presentation, make the<br>
fonts 20% larger than you think they need to be for a blind person to<br>
read them from the back row.<br>
<br>
7. More screenshots, with big fonts in them. People love to see<br>
screenshots because they illustrate your bullet-list points very clearly<br>
sometimes (i.e. what are the arguments to that thing you wrote again?).<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-dave<br>
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