Black Hat USA 2025 returned to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, marking its 27th year in North America. With more than 22,000 participants, the event unwound over six days with an agenda that focused on deep dives into cybersecurity, underlying research efforts, practitioner training, vendor summits, technical demonstrations and social events. The rise of new types of attacks in the threat landscape is not slowing down, but accelerating at a monumental pace, fueled by the same modern AI tools that defenders are using. Bad actors are increasingly leaning into generative AI to dramatically improve the sophistication of phishing campaigns and create new forms of malware. They are…
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On the heels of a new partnership with identity and access management leader Okta, Palo Alto Networks surprised the tech industry with its recent announcement to acquire identity stalwart CyberArk for an eye-opening $25 billion. If approved by regulators, this deal represents a massive combination of two highly successful and mature cybersecurity infrastructure providers. This opens up a discussion about the value of identity management, what this tie-up could produce both short and long term and how customers might benefit. With that context set, let’s dive in. (Note: Palo Alto Networks is an advisory client of my firm, Moor Insights & Strategy.) The Value Of Identity And Privileged Access Management…
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Agentic AI promises to unlock enterprise transformation through massive improvements in the automation of workflows. The potential benefits are enormous. However, agentic workflows are a complicated engineering undertaking, to say the least. Agntcy is an open source collective formed in March 2025 with a vision for building a framework for what it calls the Internet of Agents. Since it was founded by Cisco’s Outshift incubation unit — which then recruited other members — the collective has focused on the coordination and orchestration of agents while ensuring proper identity access management protocols as those agents access enterprise data, open-source tools and customized large and small language models. Endorsing this approach — and giving…
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, and the company’s recent Discover annual user and partner conference in Las Vegas served as a showcase for its past decade of accomplishments, as well as the ten-year anniversary of its acquisition of Aruba in 2015. The event also served as the debut for HPE’s new brand mark, refreshing a stodgy and text-heavy logo by incorporating a variation on Hewlett Packard’s iconic green badge that is meant to appear open to the future. HPE’s future is decidedly agentic in its focus, as evidenced by Discover’s overall theme and the race for the company and other IT infrastructure providers to capitalize on…
