Black Hat USA 2024 kicks off Aug. 3 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas with training sessions, followed by a series of summits on Aug. 6, including the CISO Summit, with sessions on quantifying the cost of cyber risk, navigating regulatory complexity, and rebuilding after a cyber crisis, among others.

But the big show rolls out Aug. 7-8. Keynotes include a discussion on securing elections in a record-breaking year for voting worldwide, featuring CISA Director Jen Easterly, NCSC CEO Felicity Oswald, and ENISA COO Hans de Vries, and a fireside chat with Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike on the tradeoffs 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 be presenting on the main stage.

Session topics range from practical LLM security and leveraging LLMs for threat hunting, to cyber-insurance strategies and securing network appliances. As ever, exploit development sessions abound, as do talks aimed at breaking down application security defenses. On the enterprise front, 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 a bit of everything for everyone in the security community, on both sides of the divide.