Our CyberTech Insights reporters have compiled a list of top Black Hat USA announcements for the CIOs, CISOs, and security managers.
#1 Commvault Bolsters Cybertechnology Industry with New Data Protection Integrations
Category: Cyber Resilience, for IT SaaS
Booth No: #2701
Black Hat USA saw an uptick in cyber technology integrations this year. Leading data protection and data resilience software provider Commvault announced expanding the security ecosystem. This will be achieved through technology partnerships with top-notch leaders for advanced cyber resilience.
Commvault is a leader in the cyber resilience software industry. It had earlier stated the “confidence levels” of organizations against cyber defense and reciprocal ability to recover from cyberattacks. The findings were published in its 2024 Cyber Resilience Report. According to the report, only 13% of organizations are equipped to defend their infrastructure against threats. These organizations also lack the capabilities to quickly recover from cyberattacks. The IT preparedness of most organizations is the talk of the Black Hat USA 2024 event, especially after what happened last month with Microsoft and Crowdstrike customers.
Earlier, Commvault announced that Microsoft 365 Backup Storage was an integrated part of the Commvault Cloud Backup and Recovery for Microsoft 365. The new solution simplifies the admin processes and reduces the TCO of mission-critical Microsoft 365 workloads and data.
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Now, Commvault is filling the gaps. The company is eyeing major expansions in the cyber security ecosystem with leaders Acante, Dasera, Google Cloud, Splunk, and Wiz. These integrations mark a pivotal step in strengthening the company’s cyber resilience capabilities and delivering enhanced protection for customers operating in complex hybrid cloud environments.
The bi-directional security integrations for on-prem, hybrid, and edge cloud environments will enable customers to identify complex threats and anomalies in their IT infrastructure. It will also provide deeper granular-level insights into sensitive data that could potentially be on target for breach. Commvault aims to integrate advanced-level intelligence for cyber recovery solutions, defending customers from risks before an incident occurs.
At the time of this announcement, Commvault partners shared their quotes with the cyber tech industry.
Ranga Rangachari, Acante CEO and co-founder said – “We are thrilled to partner with an industry leader like Commvault to help customers bolster their data resiliency by combining Commvault’s cutting-edge data protection technology with Acante’s data access governance solution. This integration dramatically enhances our customers’ data security posture.”
Dasera CEO and Co-founder Ani Chaudhuri said, “Our DSPM solutions complement Commvault’s offerings and help to provide continuous monitoring and rapid remediation of data security risks. Together, we are committed to helping organizations achieve robust data security and compliance.”
Oron Noah, VP of Product Extensibility & Partnership at Wiz explained his company’s role in cloud security. Oron said, “The collaboration between Wiz and Commvault delivers cloud security context that enables highly secure backup recoveries with embedded vulnerability patching. We’re paving the way for a new era of cloud resilience, where data protection and security go hand in hand.”
Buzzword: Appdome’s New GenAI-Powered Threat Resolution Center
Category: Mobile threat detection
Booth: #1350
Mobile threat resolution emerged as the buzzword ahead of the Black Hat USA cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. With mobile threats exploding in the last 2 years, CISOs have their hands full preparing their organizations against evolving risks and fraud mechanisms. Malware and spyware are wreaking havoc on the mobile defense systems globally. But, Appdome is ahead of the cyberattackers.
Powered by Generative AI or Gen AI, Appdome is leading mobile defense management. Its new GenAI Threat Resolution Center will be in full flow at the event, showcasing how CISOs and security managers can instantly fortify their mobile defenses against targeted device threats. Last month, the company announced two key defense solutions:
- Geo-Location Fencing
- Geo DeSync Attack Detection
Both solutions are part of the Appdome Geo-Fraud Detection service and combined with the other Geo-Compliance features available on the Appdome platform.
Key features of the Appdome Threat Resolution Center
Focused protections against AI-based threats that hunt for mobile identity. Consumer PII, financial data, and payment firewall vulnerabilities
- Threat management keeps user experience on top of mind. By informing the victims about the attack, security teams can resolve threats faster and recover data quickly;
- The action plan also reduces the mobile attack surface by removing all the interlinked devices and networks, knocking out cyber attackers from going deeper into the infrastructure;
- Increased productivity by faster MTTR and reduced threat response costs.
At the time of the announcement, Tom Tovar, co-creator and CEO at Appdome explained how his team identified opportunities to protect mobile defenses using AI and LLMs in the threat response lifecycle. Tom said, “Threat Resolution Center leverages two innovations at Appdome – our new ThreatCode™ and Threat Resolution Agent™ – with GenAI to quickly synthesize massive amounts of unstructured data into step-by-step instructions that stop cyberattacks, malware, and other threats on mobile end-user devices fast.”
Tom’s colleague and CPO of Appdome, Chris Roeckl, said – “Better threat resolution is critical to better brand loyalty and the best end-user experience. Legacy products get in the way of (the) app experience, doing little more than crashing the app with no data about the attack and no way to help the user. Appdome, by comparison, puts the user first – first by removing the engineering burden and now, by removing the support burden from the cyber defense lifecycle.”
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Appdome is demonstrating its new Threat Resolution Center at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas on August 7-8, 2024 at booth #1350.
#3 Splunk’s Integrating with AI Cybersecurity Strategy and the Future of SOC
Category: Cloud security, observability, and IT service intelligence
Booth: #1940
For the last two decades, Splunk has been driving digital transformations in the cyber resilience industry. At the Black Hat USA conference, Splunk will discuss the future of security operation centers (SOC), as SecOps teams battle the ever-evolving threat landscapes with AI and automation.
Earlier this year, Splunk announced numerous security innovations for the entire SecOps landscape, including Splunk Enterprise 8.0, Federated Analytics, and integrated automation with Splunk’s SOAR. These announcements come against the backdrop of Splunk’s acquisition by Cisco. The new combined force harnesses Cisco Talos threat intelligence for real-time identification of real threats with global real-time outbreaks, contextual insights, and advanced correlations. Cisco is exhibiting at Booth #1732. Cisco is the official partner of the Black Hat Security and Network Operations Center (NOC).
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CISOs and security teams can analyze Splunk’s Federated Data Management strategy, applied to advanced SOC tools and solutions for complex data management — data routing, filtering, masking, analytics, and more. Splunk leadership will be part of the various panels.
For example, the AI Summit panel, where the VP of AI at Splunk will share insights on AI integrations with cybersecurity strategy. David Dalling, VP of Global Security Strategies, will speak on the future of SOC.
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#4 Titanium Sponsor Armis on How to Protect the Entire Surface Attack
Category: IT Security OT and IoT threat management
Booth: #1820
Armis is a leading threat exposure management platform. The Armis Lab Research was among the first to report and explain the Crowdstrike Windows IT outage last month. Cybersecurity experts will be at the Black Hat CISO Summit 2024, explaining how to mitigate the various risks in cyber security across the OT and IoT environments. Armis will join Fortinet, Xage, IONIX, and others from the InfoSec industry to discuss the different ways of blocking threats and protecting the entire surface attack.
#5 Palo Alto Networks Precision AI Technology in Action
Category: SecOps, Network Security
Booth: #1632
SecOps leader Palo Alto Networks is a top sponsor at the Black Hat event. It is also a staunch supporter of the SOC/NOC group. The company’s gen AI and LLM-based solution to defeat AI-generated zero-day threats will be in action. It is covered as part of the Precision AI technology to the CISOs and CIOs for unified SecOps management under one cloud. Scott Fanning, VP of product management at Palo Alto Networks, will discuss how threat actors use AI to break into networks and how the SecOps team’s response should counter these attacks.
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Palo Alto’s Unit42 team will also host talks on protecting organizational networks with AI Runtime Security and more.
Last month, Palo Alto Networks announced the availability of new Red Hat certification through Prisma Cloud. Its Red Hat Vulnerability Scanning will support the Red Hat OpenShift, providing more consistent and reliable security vulnerability data.
#6 Gigamon on Its Mission to Stop Ransomware Propagation
Category: Network intelligence, observability
Booth: #3050
Looking to identify blindspots in your IT networks? Gigamon can help.
According to the latest IBM Data Breach Costs 2024 report, ransomware is a critical cyber threat for every organization. Gigamon stops ransomware propagation through its deep observability technology for cloud visibility and traffic intelligence solutions.
At the event, Gigamon experts will show how to decrypt without decryption and supercharge logs monitoring and analytics with advanced network intelligence. Gigamon is also responsible for securing the event traffic at the Black Hat USA 2024 where it will help the organizers identify anomalous traffic and network protocol deviations.
#7 UpGuard at Black Hat USA
Category: Vendor risk management
Booth: #2940
Vendor risk management (VRM) technology and services help customers identify high-risk vendors and third-party service providers. They also analyze the impact of specific risks and vulnerabilities associated with the vendors within the cyber threat management and resilience landscapes. UpGuard provides high-end VRM technology to improve cybersecurity posture as security teams prepare to meet regulatory requirements (GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS, and HIPPA), control gaps, and broad remediation plans.
#8 Qualys: How to Navigate Through AI LLMs and their Complex Deployments
Category: Cybersecurity Asset Management (CSAM)
Booth: #1320
Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models (AI and LLMs) have completely disrupted the IT security and application security marketplace. CISOs and AppSec managers are aware of the complexities these technologies bring to their existing workflows. Most security teams are overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the attack surfaces rising from the AI and LLM deployments within their organizations through third party or vendor solutions. To fight these issues, Qualys is presenting the best risk assessment and mitigation strategies for CISOs at the Black Hat USA Conference. They are offering real-world case studies to the attendees during the booth sessions at #1320 during the event.
Here are the top 3 Qualys sessions that we recommend to attend at the Black Hat 2024.
- De-risk the Software Supply Chain
- Enhancing the Vulnerability Management with Threat Intelligence
- Unified Attack Surface Management with an Attacker’s and Defender’s View
#9 GenAI and Cybersecurity: By Kyndryl
Category: IT infrastructure services
Booth: #3040
GenAI has empowered every user. Attackers as well as cybersecurity analysts use different capabilities of GenAI tools to outsmart each other. So far, the attackers are leading the duel. But, for how long? The Black Hat 2024 is a classic opportunity for CyberSec executives and security managers to identify and discover new ways GenAI and cybersecurity converge. Kyndryl cybersecurity experts are at the event to discuss the positive side of GenAI for thwarting cybersecurity challenges. The panel includes:
- Adeel Saeed, VP, CTO – Global Security & Resiliency
- Rodolphe Simonetti, VP, Security Assurance
- Michael Restivo, VP, US Security & Resiliency
- Brandon Nesbit, Director, Security Consulting
Last week, the company announced collaboration with Vodafone Business, highlighting the growing need to fortify financial services industry’s growing need for enhanced security and resiliency. Kyndryl committed to secure Vodafone’s digital infrastructure against every emerging IT threat and future-proof business objectives with its comprehensive security services.
#10 Normalyze: Understanding Data Security and Zero Trust before they Spring Suprises for CISOs
Category: Data security, posture management (DSPM)
Booth: #1874
IBM defines data security and posture management (DSPM) as a mission-critical cybersecurity technology for multi-cloud environments. DSPM solutions identify sensitive data across multiple cloud environment and services, enabling security teams to quickly address the data security and compliance issues. DSPM leaders such as Normalyze are at the Black Hat USA 2024, presenting numerous real-life case studies and customer success stories for its customers and attendees.
For example, Matt Murphy will discuss business transformation, data security, and Zero Trust architecture.
Likewise, Normalyze CTO and co-founder Ravi Ithal will discuss the CISO’s role in managing enterprise risks, especially those arising from LLMs trained on sensitive and biased data.
These are the top DSPM platforms in the cyber technology industry:
- BigID
- Zscaler
- Fortanix
- Sentra
- Netskope
- CipherCloud
#11 Microsoft AI Red Team and the “Break Fix” Approach
Category: AI-driven cybersecurity
Booth: #1240
Microsoft is the sponsor of the inaugural AI Summit at the Black Hat USA 2024 cybersecurity conference. The team will discuss different AI cybersecurity strategies that SecOps teams can use to maintain robust security postures. Microsoft’s AI Red Team will also conduct live demos of the Microsoft Copilot for Security, bringing together the unified SecOps experience for XDR and SIEM departments.
Other prominent Black Hat announcements this week include:
- Expel announces MDR solutions to help SecOps teams overcome fatigue.
- The IONIX Partner Program expands the scope of Attack Surface Management (ASM) solutions across North America, EMEA and APAC.
- Entro Security prepares for the launch of new OCR support capabilities for secret scanning and Employees Tokens Blast Radius capabilities.
- Skyhawk will demonstrate the power of its Continuous Proactive Protection.
- How to Safely Deploy AI Copilots, by Varonis
- Tenable launches Vulnerability Intelligence and Exposure Response
- Devo announces Data Analytics Cloud for next-gen security applications and integrations
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