As the summer vacation season winds down, Black Hat’s early August event in Las Vegas marks a return to big tech industry trade shows. It is a somewhat unique gathering relative to other industry cybersecurity events, one that is heavily focused on security practitioners and the challenges they face in protecting organizational operations. To no surprise, many of the conversations and announcements this year focused on the weaponization of Frontier AI. Let’s examine three big takeaways and unpack what several cybersecurity infrastructure providers announced at Black Hat USA 2026 to address an ever-growing and AI-infused threat landscape. An Emerging Agentic Attack Surface The first big takeaway that emerged from…
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I recently attended Microsoft Security’s Project Perception launch event in San Francisco. The software giant continues to refine its broad cybersecurity platform, offering a diverse set of defensive capabilities across its Entra identity, Defender endpoint, email, and cloud-native application protection suite, Sentinel security operations, Purview data security, and secure service edge network security offerings – all informed by Microsoft’s deep threat intelligence. Project Perception is a logical next step for Microsoft, given the growing threats posed by the weaponization of frontier AI that aims to exploit both known and undiscovered vulnerabilities at machine speed. It is designed to add depth and breadth to Microsoft’s already well-established AI security portfolio, which…
