CISO Summit at Black Hat USA
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Four Seasons, Las Vegas, NV
Four Seasons Ballroom, Level 2
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Overview
The CISO Summit at Black Hat USA is the premier, invitation-only gathering of the world’s most influential cybersecurity leaders—taking place the day before Briefings and the main Conference begin. This full-day summit is built for deep, strategic conversations that define the future of enterprise and government security.
Held under the Chatham House Rule, the CISO Summit provides an exclusive space for CISOs and other senior cybersecurity executives to exchange insights, explore emerging threats, and benchmark strategies with peers from across industries and regions. From advanced threat intelligence to risk governance and board-level communication, every session is engineered for high-value, actionable dialogue.
If you're shaping the cybersecurity agenda for your organization, the CISO Summit is where you need to be.
- The CISO Summit Pass includes access to the CISO Summit + Breakfast, Lunch and Reception on August 5, and includes Business Hall Access during Black Hat USA on August 6 & 7.
Apply to attend
Due to limited space, Black Hat Management will review all applications. Notification of application status will be sent within 30 days of application.
*Please note: In order to create an open and candid environment that promotes the sharing of ideas and discussion, the CISO Summit will follow Chatham House Rule. This program is designed for executive security practitioners and as such, attendees from solution providers, vendors, and media are not permitted with the exception of event sponsors.
Why Attend the CISO Summit at Black Hat 2025?
For today's cybersecurity leaders, this exclusive gathering is not just valuable—it's mission-critical. Attending the CISO Summit means you'll:
Gain Exclusive Intelligence: Access cutting-edge insights into evolving threats, emerging technologies, and global security trends—shared under the Chatham House Rule for open, candid discussion.
Benchmark with the Best: Compare strategies with peers from Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and innovative tech leaders to sharpen your organization's security posture.
Shape the Strategic Conversation: Influence and engage in conversations that are actively shaping the future of cybersecurity at the executive level.
Build High-Value Connections: Forge trusted relationships with fellow CISOs and senior executives in a confidential, collaborative environment designed for meaningful networking.
Agenda
Monday, August 4 - Tuesday, August 5, 2025
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Advisory Board
Sponsors
Welcome Sponsor
Founded in 1990, World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution. WWT combines the power of strategy, execution and partnership to accelerate digital transformational outcomes for organizations around the globe. Through its Advanced Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem of the world's most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps clients and partners conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its global warehousing, distribution and integration capabilities.
With over 12,000 employees across WWT and Softchoice and more than 60 locations around the world, WWT's culture, built on a set of core values and established leadership philosophies, has been recognized 14 years in a row by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its unique blend of determination, innovation and creating a great place to work for all.
Premium Sponsors
Customers trust the Absolute Cyber Resilience Platform to ensure their security solutions work as intended, mobile and hybrid workforces can connect securely from anywhere, and to quickly restore business continuity following cyber disruptions and attacks. Absolute is partnered with 28 of the world’s leading endpoint device manufacturers, embedded in the firmware of 600 million devices, trusted by 21,000 global enterprises, and licensed across 16 million PC users. Our patented solution is recognized for extending cyber resilience across multiple security categories, including Endpoint Security, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Security Services Edge (SSE), Automated Security Control Assessment (ASCA), and Zero Trust Platforms.
Crogl autonomously resolves security alerts through investigations & threat hunting. Built for complex enterprise SOCs, it has open APIs, runs in air-gapped environments, documents all work for auditability, and eliminates the need for schema normalization across data lakes. With Crogl, your teams can focus on critical threats and reduce operational risk.
SandboxAQ delivers AI-powered cryptographic management and post-quantum cybersecurity solutions to help organizations safeguard their infrastructure today and prepare for quantum threats ahead. Our platform, AQtive Guard™, gives security teams visibility into cryptographic assets, identifies vulnerabilities, and enables rapid remediation across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. Developed by experts in AI, cybersecurity, and quantum science, SandboxAQ helps global enterprises and governments reduce cryptographic risk, simplify compliance, and transition to quantum-safe algorithms in line with NIST standards. Trusted by major financial institutions, healthcare providers, and critical infrastructure operators, SandboxAQ empowers CISOs to future-proof their security architecture and maintain cyber resilience in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.
Foundation Sponsors
Axonius transforms asset intelligence into intelligent action.Preemptively tackle hard-to-spot threat exposures, misconfigurations, and operational challenges across your entire technology footprint – all in one place backed by a comprehensive asset data model. The actionability era of cybersecurity is here – time to bring truth to action with Axonius. Learn more at www.axonius.com
CrowdStrike, a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.
CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.
ReliaQuest exists to Make Security Possible. Our Agentic AI-powered security operations platform, GreyMatter, allows security teams to detect threats at the source, contain, investigate and respond in less than 5 minutes—eliminating Tier 1 and Tier 2 security operations work. GreyMatter uses data-stitching, detection-at-source, AI, and automation to seamlessly connect telemetry from across cloud, multicloud, and on-premises technologies. ReliaQuest is the only cybersecurity technology company that delivers outcomes specific to each organization’s unique architecture, technology, and business needs. With over 1,000 customers and 1,200 teammates across six global operating centers, ReliaQuest Makes Security Possible for the most trusted enterprise brands in the world. Learn more at www.reliaquest.com.
Sophos defends your organization from cyberattacks with an adaptive, AI-driven platform and decades of security expertise, protecting the future of your business. Continuously innovating to stay ahead of cyber threats, Sophos’ products and services interoperate and adapt across the attack chain to protect organizations of all sizes.
www.sophos.com
Breakfast Sponsors
Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) is on a mission to secure the world’s data. With Zero Trust Data Security™, we help organizations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. Rubrik Security Cloud, powered by machine learning, secures data across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS applications. We help organizations uphold data integrity, deliver data availability that withstands adverse conditions, continuously monitor data risks and threats, and restore businesses with their data when infrastructure is attacked.
www.rubrik.com
SpecterOps is the leader in Identity risk management. Possessing deep knowledge of adversary tradecraft, the company enables organizations to detect and remove critical attack paths – a practice called Identity Attack Path Management. BloodHound Enterprise is the company's managed SaaS for identity and security teams, allowing for attack path remediation guidance and reporting to show improvements over time.
For more on SpecterOps, visit specterops.io.
Networking Break Sponsors
Expel is a leading managed detection and response (MDR) provider trusted by some of the world’s most recognizable brands to expel their adversaries, minimize risk, and build security resilience. Expel’s 24/7/365 coverage spans the widest breadth of attack surfaces, including cloud, with 100% transparency. We combine world-class security practitioners and our AI-driven platform, Expel Workbench™, to ingest billions of events monthly and still achieve a 17-minute critical alert MTTR. Expel augments existing programs to help customers maximize their security investments and focus on building trust—with their customers, partners, and employees.
expel.com
ExtraHop empowers enterprises to stay ahead of evolving threats with the most comprehensive approach to network detection and response (NDR). By uniquely combining NDR, network performance management, intrusion detection, and forensics in a single, integrated console, customers gain complete network visibility and unparalleled context that supports data-driven security decisions.
Executive Dinner Sponsor - Monday, Aug. 4
Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, provides the essential cybersecurity platform to protect nearly 10,000 organizations from unknown threats using AI that learns from each business in real-time. Learn more: www.darktrace.com
Executive Dinner Sponsor - Tuesday, Aug. 5
ServiceNow makes the world work better for everyone. Our cloud-based platform, risk, ESG, and security solutions help digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to address evolving risks, vulnerabilities, and compliance challenges. Bring risk, security, and IT together through a common data model to drive risk-informed decisions, unlock productivity, and build trust with customers, employees, and third parties. The world works with ServiceNowTM.
www.servicenow.com/securityandrisk
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Continuing Professional Education (CPEs)
Those who are certified through ISC2 can earn 5 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits for attending the CISO Summit.
Black Hat does not maintain records of earned CPE credits. However, we will report your credits to ISC2 on your behalf after the event. Please provide your ISC2 member number when registering for the event.
For questions about credits for CISO attendees, e-mail cisosummit@blackhat.com.