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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.
Sovereign AI That Runs Where Your Data Lives | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Monzy Merza, Co-Founder and CEO of Crogl | Hosted by Sean Martin
A security team that cannot send its data anywhere has spent years watching AI happen to everyone else. This conversation looks at what changes when the model, the data, and the verdict all stay inside the building.
Customer Zero at Exabyte Scale | A Full Sponsor Brand Briefing at Black Hat USA 2026 with Jeremy Powell, CISO of Sumo Logic | Hosted by Sean Martin
Seven exabytes a day, 100 percent first level triage through automation, and 25 hours a week back per analyst. Jeremy Powell has been running his own company's platform in production for close to a year and explains what it changes about the SOC, the board conversation, and the analyst's job.
Vulnerability Backlogs Can Finally Reach Zero | A Brand Spotlight Conversation with Ondrej Vlcek, Co-Founder and CEO of AISLE | Hosted by Sean Martin
A backlog of a million open vulnerabilities has never had a realistic path to zero, and the window between disclosure and exploitation keeps getting shorter. Ondrej Vlcek explains what changes when AI stops matching patterns and starts reasoning about code the way an attacker does.
The Business Decision Hiding Inside FedRAMP's Consolidated Rules for 2026 | A Brand Story Conversation with Jason Ford and Michael Parisi of Steel Patriot Partners | Hosted by Sean Martin
FedRAMP's Consolidated Rules for 2026 are live, the dates are fixed, and the first decision they force on a cloud service provider is not a technical one. Jason Ford and Michael Parisi walk through what actually changes, what the transition costs beyond the budget line, and why the right answer is sometimes to walk awa
FedRAMP First: Modernizing the Defense Supply Chain Without Cutting Corners | A Brand Feature Conversation with Michael Parisi of Steel Patriot Partners and Jason LaPointe of Exostar
A FedRAMP deadline can either freeze a company or force it to get sharper. Jason LaPointe and Michael Parisi break down how Exostar cleared a moderate authorization on an accelerated timeline, built a new compliant platform without breaking its customers, and turned an audit into a growth engine for the defense supply
The Identity Gap Behind Nearly Every Breach | A Brand Spotlight Conversation with Kevin Surace, CEO of TokenCore
Roughly ninety percent of successful breaches now begin by defeating the identity layer, and the multi-factor tools most companies just finished rolling out are exactly what attackers are walking through. Kevin Surace explains how AI turned faces, voices, and one-time codes into easy forgeries, and what it takes to pro
When You Can't Trust the Face on the Call | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Kevin Surace, CEO of TokenCore
Biometric-assured identity has moved from a fringe idea to the center of enterprise security, and the video call is now one of its biggest pressure points. Kevin Surace shares where TokenCore is headed, why banks are extending identity assurance to the customers who move money, and what security leaders should do befor
Measuring Risk Was Never the Point | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Matt Middleton-Leal, Regional Vice President, Northern Europe of Qualys
One client walked in with 62 million risk findings. This conversation breaks down how that number gets cut to less than one percent of fixes that actually matter, and why a SOC alone was never going to get you there.
Connecting Secure Storage to the Bigger Security Picture | A Brand Highlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Jeanclaude Toma, Chief Executive Officer of Apricorn
Most security conversations skip right past the drive sitting on the desk. Jeanclaude Toma makes the case that hardware-encrypted storage, built to government-grade standards and locked behind a PIN, belongs at the center of the security discussion.
Where Data Sovereignty and Always-On Security Operations Meet | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Bill Peterson, Senior Director of Product Marketing of Sumo Logic
For years, security leaders in Europe have been told to pick one priority: keep the business running, or keep their data compliant. This conversation from the Infosecurity Europe 2026 floor lays out why that choice is starting to disappear, and what it means for any team running a regulated SOC.
Sixty Products, One Engine | A Brand Highlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with VimalRaj Sampathkumar, Head of Technical Operations, UK & Ireland of ManageEngine
Most security teams are not missing tools, they are missing the connections between them. From the Infosecurity Europe 2026 show floor, ManageEngine makes the case that integration, not inventory, is what turns scattered software into real resilience.
When the Boardroom Asks "Are We Okay?" | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Ian Schenkel, VP Sales, EMEA & APAC of Intel 471
The boardroom has stopped accepting reassurance and started demanding evidence. Recorded on the show floor at Infosecurity Europe 2026, this conversation unpacks how threat intelligence answers the question every director is now asking, often before an attack has even formed.
Resilience Is the New Compliance: Why Recovery Is the Real Test of Cyber Readiness | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Pete Hannah, VP of Sales, Western Europe of Object First
Over ninety percent of cyberattacks go straight for your backups, so the real question is no longer whether you are protected, but whether you can actually recover. Pete Hannah of Object First explains why absolute immutability, independent testing, and dead-simple deployment are becoming the true measure of cyber resi
Seeing What Your EDR Can't | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Matt Ellison, Director of Sales Engineering EMEA & APAC of Corelight
Endpoint tools are powerful, which is exactly why today's most evasive campaigns are built to route around them. Matt Ellison explains how complete network visibility and open, investigable evidence turn the traffic no one else sees into the answers a SOC actually needs.
Tackling the Trust Crisis: Inside the 2026 HITRUST Trust Report | A Brand Spotlight Conversation with Vincent Bennekers, VP of Quality at HITRUST | Hosted by Sean Martin
Cybersecurity assurance is failing the people who depend on it most, and the third annual HITRUST Trust Report makes the case that measurable, validated assurance is the only way out. Vincent Bennekers walks through the data behind a 99.62% breach-free rate, why none of the top fifty healthcare breaches happened in HIT
After RSAC Conference 2026, Reflecting on Agentic AI, Community, and the Evolution of Cybersecurity | A Brand Highlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Tony Anscombe, Chief Security Evangelist of ESET
Once the badges come off, the signal sharpens. Tony Anscombe joins from the other side of RSAC Conference 2026 to unpack what the week actually meant for agentic AI, community, and a cybersecurity industry that keeps circling back to the same first principles.
Securing the Mini Me Era: Why Agent Identity Alone Is Not Enough | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Shreyans Mehta, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cequence Security | Hosted by Sean Martin
When ten or more AI agents are acting on your behalf across email, code, and customer data, identity tells you who they are but not what they should be allowed to do. This Brand Highlight unpacks how enterprises are moving from blanket access to job-scoped agent personas, and why that shift defines the next phase of sa
From RSAC Conference 2026 Floor to the CSA Report: What Enterprises Are Missing About AI Agents | A Brand Highlight Conversation with Itamar Apelblat, Co-Founder and CEO of Token Security
The hallway conversations at RSAC Conference 2026 all converged on one anxiety, and a new CSA report backs it up with numbers that should worry every security leader. Itamar Apelblat of Token Security translates what he heard on the floor into what enterprises need to do next about AI agents.
