5 key takeaways from Black Hat USA 2026

5 key takeaways from Black Hat USA 2026

AI’s potential as a security tool and the danger of autonomous AI agents as a new attack surface were key themes of the presentations and product announcements at Black Hat and DEFCON in Las Vegas last week. Here are some key takeaways from this year’s hacker summer camp that CISOs should review while developing cybersecurity strategies. Reactive patching alone is no longer sufficient Microsoft’s David Weston delivered a keynote at Black Hat arg…

BreachLock: CISO Conversations Revealed At Black Hat USA 2026

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 14, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video “One thing is really clear in all the CISO conversations I’ve had – is that everybody is worried about the number of CVEs (common vulnerabilities and exposures) that are being published,” Seemant Sehgal, founder and CEO at BreachLock told Cybercrime Magazine during Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas last week. “However peo…