[2] In 1993 he created the first DEF CON hacker convention, based around a party for members of a Fido hacking network in Canada.

[6] Moss is a member and regular attendee of the Washington D.C. based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher.

[8] In July 2012, Secretary Janet Napolitano directed the Homeland Security Advisory Council to form the Task Force on CyberSkills in response to the increasing demand for the best and brightest in the cybersecurity field across industry, academia and government.

The Task Force, co-chaired by Jeff Moss and Alan Paller, conducted extensive interviews with experts from government, the private sector, and academia in developing its recommendations to grow the advanced technical skills of the DHS cybersecurity workforce and expand the national pipeline of men and women with these cybersecurity skills.

In 2013, Jeff was appointed as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, associated with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, within the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security.

[11] The GCSC is composed of 24 prominent independent Commissioners representing a wide range of geographic regions as well as government, industry, technical and civil society stakeholders with legitimacy to speak on different aspects of cyberspace.

The findings were publicly released at an event sponsored by the Atlantic Council[12] and the paper went on to win an O'Reilly Defender Research Award.

Other notable members include Alex Stamos, Steve Adler, Bobby Chesney, Thomas Fanning, Vijaya Gadde, Patrick Gallagher, and Alicia Tate-Nadeau.

[22] The film follows the four days of the conference, events and people (attendees and staff), and covers history and philosophy behind DEF CON's success and unique experiences.