The CISO Summit at Black Hat USA is the premier, invitation‑only gathering for the security leaders shaping global enterprise and government defense. Held the day before Briefings begin, this program creates the rare environment senior cybersecurity executives need for candid, strategic conversation.
Conducted under the Chatham House Rule, the summit offers a confidential space for CISOs to compare approaches, pressure‑test strategies, and share hard‑earned insights with peers across industries. Discussions span advanced threat intelligence, risk governance, organizational resilience, and board‑level communication—each session designed to deliver practical, immediately applicable value.
If you’re responsible for steering your organization’s security strategy, this is the room where your toughest challenges meet the collective experience of the industry’s most influential voices.
A CISO Summit Pass includes access to the CISO Summit with Breakfast, Lunch and Reception on August 4, and 3-day access to the Black Hat Business Hall
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.
The CISO Summit is a critical, invitation‑only forum for leaders who can’t afford to fall behind. In high‑intensity format, you gain access to intelligence and peer insight you simply won’t find anywhere else. You’ll hear candid, Chatham House Rule discussions on emerging threats, breakthrough technologies, and global security shifts—shared directly by the executives shaping them. You’ll pressure‑test your strategy against Fortune 500, government, and tech‑sector peers, sharpening your organization’s defenses with real‑world benchmarks. You’ll also help drive the conversations influencing cybersecurity priorities at the highest levels, ensuring your voice is part of the industry’s strategic direction. And throughout the day, you’ll build trusted relationships with fellow CISOs in a confidential environment designed for meaningful, high‑value connection.
This is the room where today’s most urgent security challenges meet the leaders responsible for solving them.
Jeremiah Grossman is the CEO of Root Evidence. With over 25 years of contributions that have shaped the industry, he is one of the most iconic figures in cybersecurity. He began as one of Yahoo’s first security officers before founding WhiteHat Security, which grew into the largest professional hacking team. After WhiteHat’s acquisition, he joined SentinelOne as Chief of Security Strategy, helping drive its record-breaking IPO, and later co-founded Bit Discovery, acquired in just three years. Jeremiah pioneered web application security, cyber warranties, and attack surface management, earning recognition from Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and features in outlets like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. A Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and adrenaline-seeker, he now invests through Grossman Ventures and recently opened Toybox, a luxury car club in Boise, Idaho.
Founded in 1990, World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology solutions provider helping organizations make a new world happen by turning ambition into real-world outcomes. WWT brings together strategy, deep technical expertise and world-class technology partnerships to design, build and scale intelligent AI, digital, cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure solutions for public- and private-sector organizations.
Through its Advanced Technology Center (ATC)—a collaborative ecosystem featuring state-of-the-art hardware and software—WWT enables clients and partners to conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology before deploying solutions at scale using its global integration and distribution capabilities.
With more than 14,000 team members and over 60 locations worldwide, WWT serves clients in nearly 200 countries across six continents. Through Softchoice, a World Wide Technology company, WWT extends its reach to U.S. commercial and SMB clients and the entire Canadian market. Grounded in core values and leadership philosophies, WWT's culture has been recognized by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its commitment to innovation, trust and creating a great place to work for all.
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.
Qualys revolutionizes risk management with the first agentic AI-powered Risk Operations Center (ROC). As threats evolve rapidly across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, fragmented tools fall short. The Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform unifies visibility, prioritization, remediation, and compliance, enabling continuous, evidence-based risk management. Trusted by 10,000+ customers, including Forbes Global 100, Qualys delivers solutions for Exposure Management, Cloud Security, AI Security, and more—ensuring fast, accurate, and cost-effective risk reduction at enterprise scale.
Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Meeting organizations wherever they are in their security maturity, Sophos delivers 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response — powered by real-time threat intelligence and frontline insights from Sophos X-Ops for advanced cyberattack defense.
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.
Darktrace is a global leader in AI for cybersecurity that keeps organizations ahead of the changing threat landscape every day. Founded in 2013 in Cambridge, UK, Darktrace provides the essential cybersecurity platform to protect organizations from unknown threats using AI that learns from each business in real-time. Learn more: www.darktrace.com
Security teams have the signals, the tools, and the frameworks — what they lack is a system that connects them into timely, defensible decisions. Dataminr for Cyber Defense is an intel-driven threat and exposure management suite that uses agentic AI to fuse external threat data with your internal environment, prioritize those threats by business impact, and automate response. Powered by 100+ specialized AI models, it helps organizations know what's coming, understand what matters, and act before impact.
ReliaQuest is an agentic AI cybersecurity company whose platform, GreyMatter, serves as the Agentic Defense for the enterprise — defending organizations against AI-accelerated attacks. Any defender can harness that AI to detect threats, run investigations, execute response, and hunt across their entire tech stack in plain language without requiring any tool expertise. GreyMatter makes this possible through three capabilities: the Universal Translator, which automatically normalizes telemetry across any vendor without data centralization; Detection at Source, at Storage, or in Transit, which catches threats where data lives or as it moves before it is ever indexed, parsed, or stored; and Agentic Orchestration, which combines a natural language operating layer, multiple autonomous agentic systems, and an AI Model Broker that continuously selects the best model for every task based on speed, cost, and accuracy. GreyMatter enables organizations to re-architect their security environment for speed, efficiency, and cost control — and customers see $2 to $4 back for every $1 they spend. Trusted by 1,300+ enterprises, ReliaQuest has been making security possible since 2007.
Claroty empowers organizations to secure cyber-physical systems across industrial (OT), healthcare (IoMT), and enterprise (IoT) environments: the Extended Internet of Things (XIoT). The company’s unified platform integrates with customers’ existing infrastructure to provide a full range of controls for visibility, risk and vulnerability management, threat detection, and secure remote access.
Doppel is the social engineering defense platform using AI to fight AI. Built to outpace and overpower your would-be attackers, our defenses work double time: proactively safeguarding every channel, while leveraging simulations and security training to strengthen your team’s resilience. With unbeatable speed and compounding intelligence, our AI-forensics crush threats before they ever gain momentum.
Proofpoint, Inc. is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity, securing how people, data and AI agents connect. Proofpoint is a trusted partner to over 80 of the Fortune 100, helping organizations of all sizes protect their people while embracing AI securely and confidently.
Varonis secures AI and the data that powers it. The Varonis platform provides automated visibility and control over critical data and ensures safe, trustworthy AI.
Zero Networks helps organizations prevent attacks, minimize blast radius, and maintain business continuity – even when attackers get inside. We make every connection verified and intentional, using microsegmentation to keep attacks contained and the business running.
Smallstep is the world’s first Device Identity Platform™, enabling Zero Trust, certificate-based access to infrastructure, applications, and networks. Built in partnership with Apple and Google, Smallstep uses cryptographic attestation and short-lived, hardware-backed credentials to replace passwords, SSH keys, and VPN clients. By integrating with tools like Jamf, Intune, and Okta, Smallstep ensures that only trusted users on compliant devices can access sensitive systems—delivering true Zero Trust security without user friction.
AppOmni is the leader in SaaS Security and enables customers to achieve secure productivity with their SaaS applications. With AppOmni, security teams and SaaS application owners can quickly secure their mission-critical and sensitive data from attackers and insider threats. The AppOmni Platform continuously scans SaaS APIs, configurations, and ingested audit logs to deliver complete data access visibility, secure identities and SaaS-to-SaaS connections, detect threats, prioritize insights, and simplify compliance reporting. AppOmni provides unmatched depth and scalability across a diverse range of SaaS environments and serves the largest Fortune 500 and global enterprises across industries.
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.
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