No Brain No Gain
Mehmet Önder Key, Temel Demir, Dr Ahmet Furkan Aydogan
DEF CON 33 (backfill) · Day 1 · Main Stage
This talk, "No Brain No Gain," presented by Temel Demir, Mehmet Önder Key, and Dr. Ahmet Furkan Aydogan, introduces a novel approach to authentication in **Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)** and **Industrial Control Systems (ICS)** environments using **brain waves**, specifically **Electroencephalography (EEG)**. The speakers propose an EEG-based biometric system designed to address the inherent weaknesses of traditional authentication methods and even existing biometrics, which are often susceptible to spoofing, coercion, and lack of liveness detection.
AI review
Novel enough premise — EEG as a revocable, coercion-aware biometric for ICS — but the execution is proof-of-concept thin. The demo works, the ML pipeline is explained coherently, and the framing around coercion resistance is genuinely interesting. What's missing is the hard data: accuracy numbers across subjects, false acceptance/rejection rates, performance under real-world noise, and any serious adversarial testing.