Elisity’s List of Must-See Talks at Black Hat 2024 in Las Vegas

Black Hat USA 2024 features top security experts and talks. Here's our shortlist of must-see sessions.

Celebrating its 28th year, Black Hat has grown into one of the premier global security and technology conferences. It inspires cybersecurity professionals at every stage of their careers, fostering development and collaboration among academics, top-tier researchers, and experts in both the public and private sectors. Black Hat Briefings and Training are held annually in the United States, Europe, and Asia, providing excellent opportunities for leading security researchers and instructors to engage with their target audiences.

Elisity’s team will be at Black Hat, alongside our customers, partners, and integration and alliance partners as we continue to drive the enterprise journey toward Zero Trust maturity and microsegmentation.

If you're attending Black Hat, we’d love to connect with you. Schedule a meeting with our team, or find us on the show floor, at our hosted dinner, and at the sessions and talks listed below.

With hundreds of speakers, over 90 briefings, and 106 vendor-sponsored sessions, we’ve reviewed the agenda and highlighted several talks that we believe will be particularly interesting to enterprise CISOs, Network Architects, Security Architects, IoT, OT, IoMT professionals, and those involved in governance, risk, and compliance.

Wednesday, August 7 2024

WEDNESDAY | 10:20AM

Secure the Enterprise…Challenge Accepted!

Sponsor Speaker: Deepak Kolingivadi, Sponsor Speaker: Julian Azaret

Tracks: Risk, Compliance and Security Management, Security Operations & Incident Response

Format: 50-Minute Sponsored Session

Location: Mandalay Bay J

WEDNESDAY | 10:20AM

Understanding OT Cybersecurity: Learn How to Protect your Environment & Strengthen your Security Strategy

Sponsor Speaker: Quentin Kantaris

Tracks: Infrastructure Protection, Endpoint Security

Format: 50-Minute Sponsored Session

Location: Business Hall Theater C

WEDNESDAY | 10:20AM

Application of Classical Military Strategy on Modern OT Defense

Sponsor Speaker: Constantine Macris

Tracks: Risk, Compliance and Security Management, Infrastructure Protection

Format: 20-Minute Sponsored Session

Location: Mandalay Bay L

WEDNESDAY | 11:25AM

Context Matters: Advancing Toward a Threat-Centric Program

Sponsor Speaker: Sean Jennings

Track: Risk, Compliance, and Security Management

Format: 50-Minute Sponsored Session

Location: Business Hall Theater C

WEDNESDAY | 1:30PM

Transforming SOC Operations with AI: From Alert Fatigue to Proactive Defense

Sponsor Speaker: Max Heinemeyer

Tracks: Security Operations & Incident Response, Risk, Compliance and Security Management

Format: 20-Minute Sponsored Session

Location: Business Hall Theater D

WEDNESDAY | 2:05PM

Sitting Ducks: A Zero Day DNS Attack

Sponsor Speaker: Dave Mitchell

Tracks: Cloud Security, Infrastructure Protection

Format: 20-Minute Sponsored Session

Location: Business Hall Theater F

WEDNESDAY | 3:40PM

Pragmatic Lessons from 15,000 Breach Events

Sponsor Speaker: Kelly White

Tracks: Risk, Compliance and Security Management, Security Operations & Incident Response

Format: 50-Minute Sponsored Session

Location: Business Hall Theater E

Thursday, August 8 2024

THURSDAY | 10:20AM

OVPNX: 4 Zero-Days Leading to RCE, LPE and KCE (via BYOVD) Affecting Millions of OpenVPN Endpoints Across the Globe

Speaker: Vladimir Tokarev

Tracks: Exploit Development & Vulnerability Discovery, Application Security: Offense

Format: 40-Minute Briefings

Location: South Seas AB, Level 3

THURSDAY | 11:25AM

Shifting From Reactive to Proactive: Early-warning, Actionable Intelligence for Enhancing Cybersecurity Preparedness

Sponsor Speaker: Nadir Izrael

Tracks: Risk, Compliance and Security Management, Infrastructure Protection

Format: 50-Minute Sponsored Session

Location: Mandalay Bay J

THURSDAY | 12:15PM

Main Stage: Let Me Tell You a Story: Technology and the 4 Vs

Jen Easterly | Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Location: Oceanside A, Level 2)

THURSDAY | 1:30PM

Securing Network Appliances: New Technologies and Old Challenges

Speaker: Vladyslav Babkin

Tracks: Enterprise Security, Network Security

Format: 40-Minute Briefings

Location: Jasmine AE, Level 3

THURSDAY | 1:30PM

You Have Been Hit by a Security Breach. How to Know, Contain, and Recover?

Sponsor Speaker: Harish Sekar

Tracks: Cloud Security, Application Security

Format: 50-Minute Sponsored Session

Location: Mandalay Bay I

THURSDAY | 2:05PM

It Came From Inside The Network: The Shadow IT Paradox

Sponsor Speaker: Dave Lewis

Tracks: Identity and Access Manage (IAM), Risk, Compliance, and Security Management

Format: 20-Minute Sponsored Session

Location: Business Hall Theater D

THURSDAY | 3:20PM

The 10th Annual Black Hat USA Network Operations Center (NOC) Report

Speaker: Neil Wyler, Speaker: Bart Stump

Tracks: Network Security, Application Security: Defense

Format: 40-Minute Briefings

Location: Oceanside A, Level 2

THURSDAY |  4:20PM

Locknote: Conclusions & Key Takeaways from Black Hat USA 2024

Ellen Cram Kowalczyk | Security Engineering Manager, Google

Jeff Moss | Founder of Black Hat and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council

Nathan Hamiel | Senior Director of Research, Kudelski Security

Window Snyder | Founder & CEO, Thistle Technologies

Jos Wetzels | Partner, Midnight Blue

Location: Mandalay Bay H, Level 2

Join Review Board Members Nathan Hamiel, Ellen Cram Kowalczykik Window Snyder, Jos Wetzels, and Black Hat founder Jeff Moss as they conclude Black Hat USA 2024 with an insightful conversation on the most pressing issues facing the InfoSec community. This Locknote will feature a candid discussion on the conference's key takeaways and how these trends will impact future InfoSec strategies.

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