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Business Owners First, Engineers Second, Compliance People Third | A Brand Spotlight Conversation with Jason Ford and Michael Parisi of Steel Patriot Partners | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
Steel Patriot Partners opens a client conversation with the business, then the engineering, then the compliance, and the order is not accidental. Jason Ford and Michael Parisi trace where that sequence came from, what it changes about the advice a client actually receives, and how an organization can find out where it
Sovereign AI Becomes an Operational Requirement, and Crogl Built for It From the Start | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Monzy Merza, Co-Founder and CEO at Crogl | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
A free download, a hackathon running a few feet away, and a security community that has stopped asking whether AI belongs in the SOC and started asking who governs it. Monzy Merza explains why sovereignty, model choice, and consistency arrived together this year.
The Capability Is Already in Your Stack. The Question Is Who You Ask. | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Michael Parisi, Chief Growth Officer at Steel Patriot Partners | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
The AI marketing noise quieted down at Black Hat USA 2026, and what surfaced underneath it was a concern most security teams already have the tools to address. A short on-location recap on non-human identities, configuration, and why security leaders are narrowing their circle of advisors.
Proof Is the Currency on the Black Hat Floor | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Lisa Liu, Corporate Marketing and Communications Manager at Stellar Cyber | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
A few months after RSAC Conference, the questions on the show floor have changed, and the ask is data. Lisa Liu describes an audience that has tested what it heard, come back with sharper vocabulary, and put the burden of proof on vendors.
The AI SOC Moves Into Production, and Practitioners Want Hands on the Keyboard | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Bill Peterson, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Sumo Logic | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
A week on the Black Hat USA 2026 show floor left Bill Peterson with three things he keeps coming back to, and the first is that the AI SOC has crossed from concept into production. The other two explain why practitioners are reaching for the keyboard and why vendor roadmaps now run in months instead of years.
SOC Teams Are Building Their Own Agents, and the Data Sets the Ceiling | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Brian Dye, Chief Executive Officer at Corelight | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
A year ago, security teams liked the idea of AI in the SOC and kept it at arm's length. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation covers what changed, and why the data going into an agentic workflow now decides how far it can go.
Detection at AI Speed, Prioritization by Workflow, and Autonomous Elimination | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with May Mitchell, Chief Marketing Officer at Qualys | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
Three years of customer questions produced one answer on the show floor at Black Hat USA 2026, and it runs on detection, prioritization, and elimination. May Mitchell explains what changed in the AI conversation this year, and why ROI now sits next to governance in the same meeting.
Vulnerability, Visibility, and Velocity Shape the Security Roadmap Now | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Sean Murphy, Field CISO for North America at F5 | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
Three days of hallway conversations with CISOs at Black Hat USA 2026 left one pattern behind, and it comes down to three words that start with the same letter. Sean Murphy explains why the acceleration in security reads more like a physics problem than a technology problem, and why the agents now running in production
Buyers Are Asking What the AI Actually Does | A Recap at Black Hat USA 2026 with Daniel Bardenstein, CEO and Co-Founder at Manifest Cyber | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
A few months after RSAC Conference, the AI pitch on the show floor sounds about the same, and the people listening to it do not. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation tracks what actually moved between the two events and what buyers are now asking before they sign.
Coding Is a Fraction of the Work. Harness Secures Everything After It. | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Rahul Sood, General Manager, Application Security at Harness | Hosted by Sean Martin
AI is writing more code than ever, and almost none of the new constraint sits in the writing. Recorded on site at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation looks at what happens to security, policy, and release velocity in the 70 to 80 percent of the life cycle that comes after the code exists.
Network Evidence, AI Triage, and Leaving People Better Than They Arrived | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with James Pope, Sr Dir of Security Product Research and Technical Marketing Engineering at Corelight | Hosted by Sean and Marco
Black Hat builds a full enterprise network from nothing, defends it for four days, and sends some attendees home with a cleaner machine than the one they arrived with. James Pope explains how the NOC decides what counts as an attack when most of the traffic on the network is supposed to look like one.
Adversary Behavior Outlasts the Ransomware Brand | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Michael DeBolt, President and Chief Intelligence Officer of Intel 471 | Hosted by Sean Martin
Ransomware groups disband and rebrand, but the people running them keep using what works. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation looks at what changes for defenders when the tracking follows the actor instead of the logo.
10,000 Alerts a Day, 75% Cleared With Evidence Analysts Can Check | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Seth Summersett, Co-Founder and CEO of Embed Security | Hosted by Sean Martin
One security team was working through more than 10,000 alerts a day before roughly 75% of them stopped needing a human first look. Seth Summersett explains how that number held up under a competitive bake off, and why the evidence behind each decision mattered more than the decision itself.
AI Agents Act at Machine Speed. Menlo Security Governs What They Actually Do. | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Eric Avigdor, Vice President of Product of Menlo Security | Hosted by Sean Martin
Enterprises are handing AI agents access to email, file stores, and the open internet at the same time, and most of them have not decided who owns the guardrails. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation looks at what changes when the thing reading your web pages has no human skepticism.
Agents Get Zero Trust, and the Network Becomes the Sensor | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with David Hughes, SVP and GM of SASE and Security for Networking at HPE | Hosted by Sean Martin
Zero trust was built for people, and the fastest growing population on the enterprise network now has no pulse. David Hughes explains how HPE adapts the architecture for devices, workloads, and agents, and why the network itself is becoming the security team's sensor.
Post-Quantum Readiness Starts With the Infrastructure You Buy Today | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Larry Lunetta, Vice President, Portfolio Technical Marketing at HPE | Hosted by Sean Martin
A problem first described in 1994 now sits inside a three year window, and the data being stolen today is already being saved for it. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation walks through what post-quantum readiness asks of security leaders before the machine that breaks RSA ever arrives.
Compliance Moves at the Speed of DevOps When Paperwork Writes Itself | A Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Travis Howerton, Co-Founder and CEO at RegScale | Hosted by Sean Martin
The first CTO of the US Nuclear Weapons Program left government convinced that the checklist approach to audits was holding the whole industry back. At Black Hat USA 2026 he explains how compliance as code turns an 18-month authority to operate into something closer to 30 days, with a better risk posture on the other s
Agents in Production Need a Named Accountable Owner | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Sean Murphy, Field CISO for North America at F5 | Hosted by Sean Martin
A security leader who spent years buying F5 technology now works inside the company, and four weeks in he is making the case that availability belongs in the security portfolio and that every agent heading into production needs a name attached to it. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, this conversation moves f
The Last Mile of Security Operations Runs on a Local Model | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Karthik Kannan, Founder and CEO at Anvilogic | Hosted by Sean Martin
Seven years after setting out to build a full security operations platform, Anvilogic says the vision is complete, with agents handling data, detection, triage, investigation, and case management under human control. Karthik Kannan explains why the last mile of AI in the SOC runs on a model that lives inside your own e
Protecting the Executive Means Protecting Everyone They Trust | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO at BlackCloak | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli
A convincing deepfake now takes a laptop, a small voice sample, and about three minutes, and the person placing the call is rarely the executive. Chris Pierson explains why BlackCloak widened protection to the attorneys, advisors, assistants, and family members who surround the people attackers actually want to reach.
Autonomous Remediation Is Already Running at Enterprise Scale | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Sumedh Thakar, President and CEO at Qualys | Hosted by Sean Martin
Ninety days to fix a vulnerability turned into ninety seconds, and the window between disclosure and exploitation now closes faster than most teams can staff for. This conversation covers what shifts when detection, prioritization, and remediation stop waiting for someone to approve each step.
Stellar Cyber Puts Numbers Behind Agentic Auto Triage and Hands Analysts 19 Minutes Back Every Hour | A Full Sponsorship Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Lisa Liu, Corp Marketing and Comms Manager at Stellar Cyber | Hosted by Sean Martin
A show floor full of AI claims, and one company arriving with customer-supplied numbers to put behind its own. Lisa Liu explains what 19 minutes per analyst hour, 1.5 reclaimed full-time analysts, and 99.7 percent agreement with human analysts actually change inside a security operation.
AI Has Its Own Supply Chain | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Daniel Bardenstein, CEO and Co-Founder of Manifest Cyber | Hosted by Sean Martin
AI is arriving in the enterprise faster than most security teams can inventory it, and the models, datasets, and agents coming with it carry a supply chain of their own. Daniel Bardenstein explains what security leaders are asking for right now, and why the answer still tends to arrive as phone calls, emails, and sprea
The Budget Is Already Spent. The ROI Is in the Configuration. | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Michael Parisi, Chief Growth Officer of Steel Patriot Partners | Hosted by Sean Martin
A client cut 250 thousand dollars from a 750 thousand dollar licensing bill in about a day, and the only thing that changed was who was looking at it. From the show floor at Black Hat USA 2026, a conversation about what security leaders are actually asking for when they stop taking the sales call.