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Just one month left until PHDays 9 starts. Arrangement of presentations is in full swing, preparations for The Standoff and other contests are underway. We have already announced some new contests like Industrial Ninja, IDS Bypass, and ESCalation Story. Of course, this year our traditional hacking contests, like Best Reverser, Competitive Intelligence, and 2drunk2hack, will be held as well.

As we said before, at PHDays 9 participants can test their strength in various applied security workshops. But this is not yet the full extent of the contests. Two new contests—Industrial Ninja and IDS Bypass—were recently added to the list.

Want to test your mettle at investigating cybersecurity incidents? Take part in the ESCalation Story online contest, which will be held in the run-up to Positive Hack Days. The contest will take place via Telegram from April 22 through May 15. Winners will get prizes from the PT Expert Security Center.

At this year's Positive Hack Days, teams of attackers, defenders, and security operations centers will wage cyberbattle in The Standoff for the fourth time. But this year, the organizers have some changes in store.

The competitive program of Positive Hack Days 9 promises to be packed. In addition to the traditional contests, there will be applied security competitions of various difficulty held in a workshop format. This means that during a couple hours contestants will acquire basic knowledge of some aspect and will immediately use that knowledge.

This year, PHDays will include a special track for digital defenders! Our forum has tended to concentrate more on about attacks, vulnerabilities, and hacking techniques, and less on protection. To close that gap, we have created a special technical track named thrEat reSearch Camp for presentations about incident response, threat intelligence, threat hunting, OSINT, and malware analysis.

Our review board has been hard at work sorting through proposals for talks at Positive Hack Days. We encourage would-be speakers to apply soon: the call for papers closes on March 31. Recently we announced a highlighted speaker at PHDays 9, prominent GSM security researcher Karsten Nohl. Today we present the first group of speakers whose talks have already made the cut.