Watch here Wednesday and Thursday, 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. ET to see over 40 live video interviews straight from the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas.

Sara Peters, Senior Editor

August 9, 2018

2 Min Read

BLACK HAT USA - Whether you are hitting the Mandalay Bay for the Black Hat USA 2018 conference this week or peeking at the news feeds from afar, keep your browser open here from 2 pm to 6 pm Eastern (11 - 3 Pacific) on Wednesday, Aug. 8 and Thursday Aug. 9. The Dark Reading News Desk will once again be streaming live right here at https://darkreading.com/drnewsdesk or watch live on YouTube., bringing you over 40 video interviews with speakers and exhibitors at the show.

Keep tabs on the action on Twitter by following @DarkReading and #DRNewsDesk. Here's our all-star lineup, in order of appearance (subject to change): 

Wednesday, August 8

  • Allison Bender, Counsel, ZwillGen PLLC and Amit Elazari, Doctoral Law Candidate, Berkeley Law, CLTC, MICS Program

  • Hugh Njemanze, CEO, Anomali

  • Cathal Smyth, Machine Learning Researcher, Royal Bank of Canada and Clare Gollnick, CTO and Chief Scientist, Terbium Labs

  • Haiyan Song, SVP and GM of Security Markets, Splunk and Oliver Friedrichs, VP of Security Orchestration and Automation, Splunk

  • Dr. Paul Vixie, CEO & Co-Founder, Farsight Security

  • Carsten Schuermann, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen

  • Rohyt Belani, CEO, Cofense Inc.

  • Marc Ph. Stoecklin, Principal Research Scientist and Manager of Cognitive Cybersecurity Intelligence, IBM Research

  • Balint Seeber, Director of Vulnerability Research, Bastille

  • Scott Schneider, Chief Revenue Officer, CyberGRX

  • Justin Engler, Technical Director, NCC Group and Tyler Lukasiewicz, Security Consultant, NCC Group

  • Andrew Blaich, Head of Device Intelligence at Lookout and Michael Flossman, Head of Threat Intelligence at Lookout

  • Ben Gras, Security Researcher, PhD Student, VU University

  • Chester Wisniewski, Principal Research Scientist, Sophos

  • Mark Dufresne, VP of Threat Research and Adversary Prevention, Endgame

  • Jonathan Butts, CEO, QED and Billy Rios, Founder, Whitescope

  • Mike Hamilton, Chief Executive Officer, Ziften

  • IJay Palansky, Partner, Armstrong Teasdale LLP

  • Russ Spitler, SVP Product, AlienVault

Thursday, August 9:

  • Daniel Crowley, Research Baron, IBM X-Force Red and Jennifer Savage, Security Researcher, Threatcare

  • Mark Orlando, Chief Technology Officer, Cyber Protection Solutions, Raytheon

  • Brittany Postnikoff, Researcher, University of Waterloo and Sara-Jayne Terp, Data Scientist, AppNexus

  • Chris Eng, Vice President of Security Research, CA Veracode

  • Ruben Santamarta, Principal Security Consultant, IOActive

  • Justin Shattuck, Principal Threat Researcher, F5 Networks

  • Ofer Maor, Director of Solutions Management, Synopsys Software Integrity Group

  • Andrea Carcano, PhD, Co-founder and CPO, Nozomi Networks and Younes Dragoni, Security Researcher, Nozomi Networks

  • Kingkane Malmquist, Information Security Analyst, Mayo Clinic

  • Jordan Wright, Principal R&D Engineer, Duo Security and Olabode Anise, Data Scientist, Duo Security

  • Celeste Lyn Paul, Senior Researcher, NSA and Josiah Dykstra, Deputy Technical Director of Cybersecurity Operations, NSA

  • Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO, Onapsis and Michael Marriott, Research Analyst, Digital Shadows

  • Ofer Israeli, CEO, Illusive Networks

  • Andrei Costin, Assistant Professor at University of Jyvaskyla, JYU.FI and Security Researcher at Firmware.RE

  • Tanuj Gulati, CTO and Co-founder, Securonix

  • Ashley Holtz, Intelligence, NBCUniversal

  • Michelle Johnson Cobb, Chief Marketing Officer, Skybox Security

  • Kenneth Geers, Chief Research Scientist, Comodo

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About the Author(s)

Sara Peters

Senior Editor

Sara Peters is Senior Editor at Dark Reading and formerly the editor-in-chief of Enterprise Efficiency. Prior that she was senior editor for the Computer Security Institute, writing and speaking about virtualization, identity management, cybersecurity law, and a myriad of other topics. She authored the 2009 CSI Computer Crime and Security Survey and founded the CSI Working Group on Web Security Research Law -- a collaborative project that investigated the dichotomy between laws regulating software vulnerability disclosure and those regulating Web vulnerability disclosure.


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