Black Hat USA 2024 begins with training on August 3 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, followed by a series of summits on August 6, including the CISO Summit with sessions on quantifying the cost of cyber risk, navigating regulatory complexity and rebuilding from a cyber crisis, among others.
But the big show starts on August 7 and 8. Keynote speakers include a discussion on securing elections in a year that saw so many elections around the world with CISA Director Jen Easterly, NCSC CEO Felicity Oswald and ENISA COO Hans de Vries, as well as a fireside chat with Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike on the trade-offs between security and privacy. Microsoft Deputy CISO Ann Johnson, ThreatLocker CEO Danny Jenkins, CISA’s Jen Easterly and National Cyber Director Harry Coker will also speak on the main stage.
Session topics range from practical LLM security and using LLMs for threat hunting to cyber insurance strategies and securing network devices. As always, there are numerous sessions on exploit development as well as talks aimed at breaking through application security defenses. At the enterprise level, critical vulnerabilities in AWS, VPN post-exploitation techniques, real-world SaaS attacks, and privileged escalation will be presented and discussed. Disinformation, deepfakes, ransomware gang structures – Black Hat has something for everyone in the security community on both sides of the divide.