Aug 1—6
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Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV

Oceanside B

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Overview

The Second Annual Financial Threat Summit at Black Hat USA is a one day forum bringing together senior leaders across banking, payments, insurance, fintech, and capital markets for candid discussion on the security challenges shaping the future of finance. Operating under the Chatham House Rule, the summit is designed to foster honest, high impact conversations about where the industry is headed and what must change to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated threats.

Through expert led briefings, closed door panels, and peer driven discussions, attendees examine emerging attack models, the evolution of fraud and financial crime, and the strategic technologies redefining resilience. The agenda is tightly curated to balance forward looking insight with real world experience, creating a private environment for executives to exchange perspectives that rarely surface in open forums. The summit is closed to media and analysts to preserve a confidential, executive level experience.

Passes

Price

A Financial Threat Summit Pass includes access to the FSS Summit with lunch & cocktail reception and 3-day access to the Black Hat Business Hall

$2,099

Why Attend

As financial services organizations face rapid digital change and increasingly sophisticated fraud and cyber threats, the Financial Threat Summit at Black Hat USA provides senior leaders a rare forum for candid, forward‑looking dialogue. The summit brings the industry together to explore what’s next and how security, fraud prevention, and resilience strategies must evolve to keep pace. Gain insight into the future threat landscape, including the convergence of cyber risk, fraud, and financial crime.

  • Learn how peers are adapting security and fraud strategies to new technologies, business models, and attack methods
  • Engage in candid, off the record discussions under the Chatham House Rule with senior industry decision makers
  • Build trusted connections with leaders shaping the next phase of financial sector security

Summit Emcee

Justine Bone

Executive Director

Crypto ISAC

Justine is the Executive Director of the Crypto ISAC. She has served as CISO at Bloomberg LP, where she founded the information security group, as CEO of offensive security company Immunity, and as CEO of medical security research firm MedSec, where her and her team's work led to FDA recalls of implantable medical devices. She has served for years as a member of the Blackhat Review Board and Blackhat’s CISO Summit Advisory Board, and as Head of Infrastructure and Information Security at Dow Jones, where Justine led cloud transformation and information security. She has advised several Fortune 50 companies and continues to serve on the Advisory Board of HP. Other companies Justine has advised include Redjack, Decentraweb, Emergent Security, and Drawbridge Networks. In her early career, Justine served as a security researcher at New Zealand's GCSB, trained by the NSA, and then joined the ISS X-Force as a security researcher.

Advisory Board

Justine Bone

Justine Bone

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Executive Director

Crypto ISAC

Justine is the Executive Director of the Crypto ISAC. She has served as CISO at Bloomberg LP, where she founded the information security group, as CEO of offensive security company Immunity, and as CEO of medical security research firm MedSec, where her and her team's work led to FDA recalls of implantable medical devices. She has served for years as a member of the Blackhat Review Board and Blackhat’s CISO Summit Advisory Board, and as Head of Infrastructure and Information Security at Dow Jones, where Justine led cloud transformation and information security. She has advised several Fortune 50 companies and continues to serve on the Advisory Board of HP. Other companies Justine has advised include Redjack, Decentraweb, Emergent Security, and Drawbridge Networks. In her early career, Justine served as a security researcher at New Zealand's GCSB, trained by the NSA, and then joined the ISS X-Force as a security researcher.

Daniel Cuthbert

Daniel Cuthbert

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Global Head of Security Research

Daniel Cuthbert has been on a relentless quest to build software so secure that even he might struggle to hack it (but don't count on it). Self-diagnosed with an obsession for bugs and offensive operations, he's turned his penchant for poking holes into a crusade for making vendors shape up. By channeling his mischief into the OWASP ASVS and other cunning initiatives, he's been plotting to save the software world—one responsible vendor at a time.

Mike Kearn

Mike Kearn

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Business Information Security Officer

U.S. Bank

Mike Kearn is a Business Information Security Officer (BISO) within U.S. Bank Information Security Services. Within his role, he regularly consults with senior technology and operational risk management executives as an information security subject matter expert. Through this collaborative partnership, he drives the integration of sound security practices into the strategic roadmaps for his clients. Mr. Kearn brings more than 24 years of varied experience in information technology and security to his current role.

Allison Miller

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Founder & CEO

Cartomancy Labs

Allison Miller is the Founder and CEO of Cartomancy Labs, an advisory firm that guides teams in innovating and solving problems anywhere that people, money, and technology connect. Prior to establishing Cartomancy Labs, Allison was the CISO and VP of Trust at Reddit where she led the cybersecurity, privacy, risk, and safety teams.

With decades of experience at the intersection of cybersecurity, fraud, and abuse, Allison is known for implementing real-time risk prevention and detection systems running at internet-scale, with a proven track record of building and protecting customer-facing platforms and services (both B2C and B2B). She has also led major initiatives to engineer the defenses for core payment and e-commerce systems and technologies, having held technical and leadership roles at Bank of America, Google, Electronic Arts, Tagged/MeetMe, PayPal/eBay, and Visa International. Miller speaks internationally on security, fraud and risk, sits on the Faculty at IANS, and has been recognized by SC Media as a Power Player in IT Security.

Becky Pinkard

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Security Transformation Expert

Becky Pinkard is a recipient of the 2022 Global Cyber Security Leadership Award - Editor's Choice (Global), previously appointed to the ‘100 Global CISOs for 2020’ list and was awarded ‘CISO of the Year, 2020’ by SC Awards Europe. Becky is a renowned practitioner and commentator on the information security sector who has been working in information technology and security since 1996.

A security transformation expert, Becky’s background and experience to date has provided her with broad information security expertise, coupled with global team management and in-depth, technical capabilities around cyber security operations.

Becky is an active advocate for promoting diversity and inclusion in business and was a co-founder of the ‘We Empower Diversity in Start-ups’ (WEDS) group. She has been a CyLon mentor since 2017, providing cyber security, operations and client success guidance to entrepreneurs. She also co-hosted a monthly podcast, Cyber Warrior Princess, focused on cyber security related commentary.

Becky was a SANS Certified Instructor for over a decade and served as a GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst advisory board member and on the Strategic Advisory Council for the Center of Internet Security. She co-authored "Nmap in the Enterprise" and "Intrusion Prevention and Active Response, Deploying Network and Host IPS". Becky has shared her expertise in numerous publications, both written and in live interviews all over the world, including: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, ChannelPost, The Telegraph, The New York Times, BBC News, Channel 4 News, and more.

Ron Ritchey

Ron Ritchey

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Founder & Managing Director

Boundary Layer Advisory, LLC

Ron Ritchey is the founder of Boundary Layer Advisory, where he partners with technology companies to build security capabilities that actually work inside complex, regulated environments.A former CISO and Distinguished Engineer at Barclays, Ron has spent his career inside some of the world’s largest financial institutions, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Barclays. He has led large-scale cybersecurity transformations across application security, cloud, and enterprise risk, in environments shaped by global regulatory expectations including those of the Federal Reserve, PRA, MAS, and ECB. His current work focuses on the practical impact of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity—both as an accelerant for attackers and as a rapidly evolving control surface for defenders. He is particularly interested in how AI is exposing gaps between security theory and operational reality—and which controls will still work when both sides are using it.

Sponsors

Title Sponsor

Confident AI transformation starts with secure APIs. Wallarm protects every connection, at runtime and at scale. We secure every business transaction by protecting the applications, APIs, and AI systems in real time, in production. That means CISOs and CIOs can move fast, reduce risk, and scale securely.

www.wallarm.com

Premium Sponsors

Exabeam is a leader in intelligence and automation that powers security operations for the world’s smartest companies. As a global cybersecurity innovator, Exabeam provides industry-proven, security-focused, and flexible solutions for faster, more accurate threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR). Cutting-edge technology enhances security operations center performance, optimizing workflows and accelerating time to resolution. With consistent leadership in AI innovation and a proven track record in security information and event management (SIEM) and user behavior analytics, Exabeam empowers global security teams to combat cyberthreats, mitigate risk, and streamline operations. Learn more at www.exabeam.com.

F5 is the global leader that delivers and secures every app. Backed by three decades of expertise, F5 has built the industry’s premier platform—F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP)—to deliver and secure every app, every API, anywhere: on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and across hybrid, multicloud environments.

www.f5.com.

Foundation Sponsors

Primary is the Unified Zero Trust Control Plane, enabling continuous visibility, governance, and granular policy enforcement across all human and non-human identities. By combining zero trust architecture and cryptographic identity with centralized intelligence, Primary gives organizations the control and confidence to operate securely at machine speed and future-proof their business for the Agentic AI revolution.

www.primary.ai

Radware is a global cybersecurity leader delivering AI-driven protection for financial institutions’ applications, data, and infrastructure.

Our end-to-end platform spans DDoS, WAF, bot management, and API security. Innovations like our LLM Firewall and AI SOC Xpert help financial organizations stay resilient against evolving, AI-powered cyber threats across hybrid and cloud environments.

www.radware.com

Sponsorship Opportunities

Limited sponsorship opportunities are available.

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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 Financial Threat Summit.

Black Hat does not maintain records of earned CPE credits. However, we will report your credits to ISC2 on your behalf within 30 days following the event. Please provide your ISC2 member number when registering for the event.

For questions about credits for Financial Threat Summit attendees, e-mail cfp@blackhat.com.