Black Hat USA 2020 Recap And What Is Happening Next | With Kymberlee Price And Steve Wylie

08/18/20 • 39 min

The game is never over. We just reach milestones.

This year's Black Hat Conference USA certainly got to a big one.

Participants from the business, research, and hacker communities came together - virtually, for the first time - for the 2020 edition of the Las Vegas-based event.

As discussed during the kick-off podcast, this virtual event presented the opportunity to expand the audience in many different ways and bring a whole new level of engagement to the table. This is precisely what happened: the event drew in attendees from 117 countries and a sizeable first-time attendee.

As both Kymberlee and Steve pointed out, the online interaction was probably the biggest challenge and the most difficult thing to replicate. They pulled this off: many experienced virtual "lobby con" both inside and outside the conference platform, with like-minded individuals, members of the data science community, and the blackhat Review Board members.

Beyond the content itself, there's a lot to be learned for how we will consume content moving forward and how we will likely expect to engage with each other in a world where in-person-only events may be a thing of the past.

Steve and Kymberlee provide some interesting insights into the future of Black Hat in this context.

The future of conferences looks hybrid, and that is a good thing.

Guest(s)
Kymberlee Price, BHUSA Review Board

Steve Wylie, Black Hat General Manager

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The game is never over. We just reach milestones.

This year's Black Hat Conference USA certainly got to a big one.

Participants from the business, research, and hacker communities came together - virtually, for the first time - for the 2020 edition of the Las Vegas-based event.

Steve and Kymberlee provide some interesting insights into the future of Black Hat in this context.

The future of conferences looks hybrid, and that is a good thing.

Guest(s)
Kymberlee Price, BHUSA Review Board

Steve Wylie, Black Hat General Manager

This Episode’s Sponsors:

Cequence: itspm.ag/itspcequweb

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Threat Modeling Technology, Business, Humans, and Society | With Diana Kelley and Adam Shostack

Threats? What? When? Why?

I'll worry when and if the time comes.

And life goes on smoothly as usual — until it doesn't.

We invited our friend Diana Kelley to join us once more on our talk show, Unusual Gatherings, but instead of being the guest, she would be our co-host bringing a guest of her choosing.

She knows we like to talk about technology and humanity, and that we love time traveling through the past, present, and future of this weird relationship -- and to get philosophical about it too.

So she invited Adam Shostack to be her guest on the show. What a perfect choice.

He wrote THE BOOK on Threat Modeling and can apply that way of thinking to software, technological systems, business, organizations, complex systems, social media, news manipulations, CyberSecurity, social engineering, group sociology, animal behaviors, everything that makes us humans, our relationships, and our society as a whole — pretty much, life.

What are we working on?

What can go wrong?

What are we going to do about it?

And did we do a good job?

If you think about it for a second, these actually have nothing to do with technology. You can apply them anywhere.

Truth?

We're all faced with different threats every day, and probably most of us don't even realize it.

Bigger truth?

"If you want to avoid problems and don't have donuts, you have a problem."

Listen up, and it will all make sense.

Well, most of it.

Guest(s)
Adam Shostack

Co-Host(s)
Diana Kelley

Resources:
The Book: https://threatmodelingbook.com/

The Games: Adam.Shostack.org/games.html

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