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Executives Can Check a Country's Risk and a Caller's Identity From the Same BlackCloak App | A Brand Spotlight Recorded On Location at Black Hat USA 2026 with Matt Covington, Senior Vice President of Product at BlackCloak | Hosted by Sean Martin
A travel advisory page turns a destination country into a risk picture across physical, cyber, geopolitical, and social conditions, with embassy contacts and live incident reports available in the app. Impersonation protection lets a member challenge a suspicious message on a separate channel, and the circle of trust r
Executives Can Now Invite Their Lawyer, Banker, and Dog Walker Into a Verified Circle of Trust | A Brand Spotlight Recorded On Location at Black Hat USA 2026 with Matt Covington and Tracey Moon of BlackCloak | Hosted by Sean Martin
BlackCloak members can now invite anyone they rely on into a verified circle of trust inside Impersonation Protection, from the private banker to the person who walks the dogs. This Brand Spotlight includes a live walkthrough of a verification request being sent and answered.
A Secure and Compliant Business Is the Destination. Steel Patriot Partners Maps Five Routes to It. | A Brand Spotlight Recorded On Location at Black Hat USA 2026 with Michael Parisi, Chief Growth Officer at Steel Patriot Partners | Hosted by Sean Martin
The destination is a business that can enter a market, keep a demanding customer, and work with other businesses on terms it can live with. Michael Parisi maps the five positions a company tends to stand in on the way there, and the three questions that identify which one it is.
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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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
Uniquely Familiar: A Lifetime Pouring Passion Into Guitars That Sing | A Brand Spotlight at The NAMM Show 2026 with John Page and Bryan Ray of John Page Guitars
A conversation on the floor of The NAMM Show 2026 with the guitar designer who co-founded the Fender Custom Shop and has spent 53 years designing instruments that sing. Hand-painted saints of American roots music, an altar-inspired art guitar, and a design philosophy called "uniquely familiar."
Inside DW Drums: Custom Craft, Heritage Revival, and Drummer-First Innovation | A Brand Spotlight at The NAMM Show 2026 with Scott Donnell, Director of Brand Management of Drum Workshop, Inc.
From the DW Custom Shop to the revived Slingerland Radio King, from LP's top-tuning congas to a sand-cast piccolo built one hundred units at a time, Drum Workshop uses The NAMM Show 2026 to walk through what a modern drum company looks like when craft, heritage, and engineering share the same floor. Scott Donnell, Dire
Continuous Security Validation in a World of Agentic AI | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Matt Stewart and Alex Grohmann of Impetum
Most security teams believe their tools are working -- but belief is not the same as proof. In this Brand Spotlight recorded live at RSAC Conference 2026, Matt Stewart and Alex Grohmann of Impetum explain why continuous purple teaming has become the missing link between compliance-driven security and evidence-based con
When Every Second Counts, Who Knew What and When? | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Vaughan Shanks, Co-Founder and CEO of Cydarm Technologies
When a major cyber incident unfolds, the difference between a controlled response and a five-day nightmare often comes down to one thing: whether your team has a real system of record. Vaughan Shanks, Co-Founder and CEO of Cydarm Technologies, joins Sean Martin at RSAC Conference 2026 to explain why purpose-built case
Securing Data Across the Hybrid Enterprise | A Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026 with Thyaga Vasudevan, EVP, Product of Skyhigh Security
As enterprises navigate the competing pressures of cloud adoption, data sovereignty, and the rise of AI agents, the promise of a cloud-only security architecture is collapsing under the weight of real-world complexity. In this Brand Spotlight at RSAC Conference 2026, Thyaga Vasudevan of Skyhigh Security lays out why hy