What Companies Attended Black Hat USA 2026?

Cisco provides networking, security, observability, and collaboration technology. Its security portfolio spans network defense, identity, cloud security, threat detection, and security operations.

Qualys provides vulnerability, exposure, compliance, and cyber-risk management technology. Qualys helps organizations discover assets, prioritize exposures, automate remediation, and manage risk across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

ReliaQuest provides security-operations technology through its GreyMatter platform. ReliaQuest helps enterprises combine security telemetry, detection, investigation, response, and threat hunting across their existing security stack.

Safe Security provides cyber-risk management technology. Safe helps organizations quantify cyber exposure, prioritize risk, and connect security decisions with business impact.

SentinelOne provides endpoint, cloud, identity, and AI-powered cybersecurity technology. Its platform helps enterprises detect threats, investigate attacks, automate response, and protect distributed infrastructure.

ServiceNow provides enterprise workflow software across IT, security, risk, and operations. Its security products help organizations coordinate incident response, vulnerability workflows, governance, and enterprise risk.

ThreatLocker provides endpoint security built around application control and Zero Trust principles. ThreatLocker helps organizations control software execution, permissions, storage access, and application behavior.

7AI develops agentic AI technology for security operations. The platform uses AI agents to investigate security events and automate work traditionally handled manually by SOC analysts.

Cymulate provides exposure-management and security-validation technology. Cymulate helps security teams continuously test defenses, simulate attacker behavior, and identify gaps across enterprise environments.

Exaforce develops AI-driven security-operations technology. Its platform uses AI agents to help security teams investigate threats, prioritize incidents, and automate repetitive SOC work.

Fortra provides cybersecurity and infrastructure software across data protection, offensive security, email security, automation, and managed file transfer. Its portfolio serves enterprise security and IT teams across a broad range of defensive workflows.

KnowBe4 provides human-risk management and security-awareness technology. Its platform combines training, phishing simulation, workforce risk, and tools designed to reduce social-engineering exposure.

Oak develops identity-security technology for modern enterprises. Oak focuses on helping organizations manage identity risk as access becomes increasingly distributed across employees, applications, and AI systems.

Prophet Security develops an AI-powered security-operations platform. Prophet applies AI agents to alert investigation and response workflows to help SOC teams process security events more efficiently.

Sophos provides endpoint, network, cloud, email, and managed security products. Sophos combines cybersecurity software with managed detection and response for organizations requiring continuous protection.

Tenable provides exposure-management and vulnerability-management technology. Tenable helps security teams identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, attack paths, and other sources of enterprise exposure.

Trend Micro provides enterprise cybersecurity across endpoints, cloud environments, networks, identities, email, and AI systems. Its portfolio focuses on threat prevention, detection, exposure management, and response.

Vectra AI provides AI-driven threat detection and response. Vectra analyzes identity, network, cloud, and SaaS activity to identify attacker behavior and prioritize investigations.

Cyera provides data-security technology for discovering, classifying, and protecting sensitive information. Cyera helps organizations understand where data exists, who can access it, and where risk is concentrated.

Google Cloud Security provides cloud security, threat intelligence, security operations, and identity capabilities. Its portfolio combines Google infrastructure and security research with enterprise detection and response technology.

ManageEngine provides IT-management and security software for enterprise teams. Its products cover identity, endpoint management, SIEM, privileged access, network operations, and other IT-security workflows.

Microsoft provides enterprise cloud, identity, endpoint, application, and security technology. Microsoft Security brings products including Defender, Sentinel, Entra, and Purview together across enterprise security operations.

Varonis provides data-security and threat-detection technology. Varonis helps organizations discover sensitive information, monitor access, identify abnormal behavior, and reduce exposure across enterprise data.

Wiz provides cloud-security technology for enterprises running workloads across public clouds. Wiz helps teams identify vulnerabilities, attack paths, misconfigurations, identities, data exposure, and cloud risks.

Broadcom provides semiconductor, infrastructure, and enterprise software technologies, including cybersecurity products. Its security portfolio spans endpoint, network, information protection, identity, and enterprise infrastructure.

Censys provides internet intelligence and attack-surface visibility. Censys helps security teams understand internet-exposed infrastructure, identify assets, and investigate external threats.

Concentric AI provides data-security posture management technology. The platform helps organizations discover sensitive data, understand risk, monitor access, and reduce exposure across enterprise information.

Corellium provides virtualized device technology used for mobile security research and testing. Security teams use Corellium to analyze operating systems, applications, and device-level vulnerabilities.

HackerOne provides offensive-security and vulnerability-management services built around security researchers. Organizations use HackerOne for bug bounty programs, pentesting, vulnerability disclosure, and continuous security testing.

Semgrep provides code-security technology for developers and application-security teams. Semgrep helps organizations identify vulnerabilities, insecure patterns, secrets, and software risks directly within development workflows.

Tines provides workflow automation for security and IT teams. Tines helps organizations automate investigations, response, enrichment, case management, and repetitive operational processes.

Tracebit develops cloud-security technology focused on detecting malicious behavior inside cloud environments. Tracebit helps security teams identify threats and investigate attacker activity across modern infrastructure.

VulnCheck provides vulnerability intelligence. VulnCheck helps security teams understand exploitation activity, prioritize vulnerabilities, and make remediation decisions based on real-world threat data.

wolfSSL develops embedded security and cryptography software. Its products provide TLS, encryption, and security capabilities for embedded systems, connected devices, and constrained computing environments.

XBOW develops AI-powered autonomous security testing technology. XBOW uses AI to find and validate software vulnerabilities at a scale traditionally associated with human penetration testing.

Zenity provides security and governance for AI agents, low-code applications, and enterprise automation. Zenity helps organizations discover and manage risks created by rapidly growing AI and automation environments.

Vega Security develops AI-native security-operations technology. Vega focuses on helping security teams work across fragmented security data and accelerate detection, investigation, and response.

Clover Security develops AI-native security for software-development environments. Clover focuses on protecting development workflows as human engineers increasingly build alongside coding agents and other AI systems.

DeepKeep provides security technology for AI models and applications. DeepKeep focuses on AI risk assessment, red teaming, model security, and protection for generative-AI deployments.

Prowler provides open-source and commercial cloud-security technology. Prowler helps organizations assess cloud environments for configuration issues, compliance gaps, vulnerabilities, and exposure.

Aurascape develops AI-security technology for enterprises adopting generative and agentic AI. Aurascape focuses on visibility, control, and protection around enterprise AI usage and data flows.

ZEST Security develops cloud-security remediation technology. ZEST helps security teams move from identifying findings to prioritizing, coordinating, and automating fixes.

Anvilogic provides detection-engineering and security-operations technology. Anvilogic helps SOC teams build, manage, test, and improve threat detections across security-data platforms.

Illumio provides breach-containment and Zero Trust segmentation technology. Illumio helps organizations understand workload communication and restrict lateral movement when attackers enter enterprise environments.

Sysdig provides cloud-native security for containers, Kubernetes, workloads, and cloud infrastructure. Its platform combines runtime detection, posture management, vulnerability management, and threat response.

Anthropic develops AI models and enterprise AI products including Claude. Its participation reflects the growing intersection of frontier AI, model security, national security, and machine-speed cyber defense.

Verax AI develops AI-security technology focused on governing enterprise AI usage. Its platform helps organizations understand AI activity, apply controls, and manage risks created by generative-AI systems.

Mend.io provides application-security and software supply-chain security technology. Mend helps development teams identify vulnerabilities, manage dependencies, secure code, and reduce application risk.

Darktrace provides AI-based cybersecurity for networks, cloud environments, email, endpoints, and operational technology. Its platform uses machine learning to identify unusual activity and support threat response.

Backslash Security provides application-security technology for modern software-development environments. Its platform helps teams understand exploitable risks and prioritize security issues in complex codebases.

Glow develops security technology focused on AI activity at the endpoint. Glow addresses risks created as AI applications and agents interact with employee devices, enterprise data, and local workflows.

Noma Security provides security and governance for AI and data-science environments. Noma helps organizations discover AI assets, understand posture, manage AI risk, and protect development and deployment.

AirMDR provides AI-powered managed detection and response. AirMDR combines automation with security expertise to investigate alerts and support threat response.

PuppyGraph provides graph-query technology that works across existing data platforms. Security and analytics teams can use graph relationships to investigate complex connected data without moving it into a separate graph database.

DNSFilter provides DNS-layer security. The platform helps organizations block malicious domains, phishing, malware, and unwanted content before users connect to risky destinations.

AT&T Cybersecurity provides network and cybersecurity services for enterprises. Its security portfolio combines network visibility, threat prevention, managed services, and security capabilities integrated with enterprise connectivity.

SafeBreach provides breach-and-attack simulation and security-validation technology. SafeBreach helps security teams continuously test controls against real attacker techniques.

Artiphishell develops AI-native vulnerability-remediation technology. Its platform focuses on validating exploitable weaknesses and helping security teams move faster from discovery to remediation.

Cribl provides data infrastructure for security and IT teams. Cribl helps organizations collect, route, transform, manage, and analyze large volumes of telemetry across security and observability environments.

Cycode provides application-security and software supply-chain security technology. Cycode helps security and engineering teams identify risk across code, pipelines, dependencies, secrets, and development environments.

Dataminr provides real-time risk and threat intelligence. Its platform analyzes public information to surface emerging events that may affect enterprises, governments, and critical infrastructure.

HUMAN Security protects digital businesses from bots, fraud, account abuse, and automated attacks. HUMAN combines threat intelligence and detection technology to distinguish legitimate activity from malicious automation.

iboss provides cloud-delivered Zero Trust and SASE security. The platform secures user access to applications and data regardless of where users, devices, or workloads operate.

Blackbird.AI provides narrative and risk-intelligence technology. Blackbird helps organizations detect manipulated narratives, disinformation, and information threats affecting brands and enterprise operations.

Horizon3.ai develops autonomous penetration-testing technology. Its NodeZero platform continuously tests enterprise environments to identify attack paths that could be exploited by real adversaries.

F5 provides application delivery and security technology. F5 protects applications, APIs, networks, and cloud environments while helping enterprises manage traffic and availability.

Check Point provides network, cloud, endpoint, email, mobile, and AI security technology. Its platform combines threat prevention, security management, and research across enterprise environments.

Optiv provides cybersecurity consulting, integration, managed services, and technology services. Optiv helps enterprises design, implement, and operate security programs across multiple technology categories.

Sygnia provides incident response, threat hunting, and cybersecurity advisory services. Sygnia works with enterprises facing sophisticated attacks and helps organizations improve detection, response, and resilience.

Fable Security provides human-risk management technology. Fable combines simulations, behavioral science, and targeted education to reduce phishing and social-engineering risk.

Thales provides identity, data protection, encryption, and digital-security technology. Its cybersecurity portfolio helps enterprises protect sensitive information, credentials, applications, and critical infrastructure.

Bitdefender provides endpoint protection, threat detection, managed security, and cybersecurity software. Its business products help organizations prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats.

Novee Security develops cybersecurity technology for enterprise security teams. Its Black Hat presence places it among the emerging security vendors competing for enterprise security use cases.

Stellar Cyber provides Open XDR and security-operations technology. Stellar Cyber combines data from multiple security tools to support detection, investigation, threat hunting, and response.

Huntress provides managed cybersecurity for businesses and IT service providers. Huntress combines endpoint protection, identity threat detection, security awareness, and managed detection and response.

Fortinet provides network, cloud, endpoint, application, and security-operations technology. Its portfolio spans firewalls, SASE, SD-WAN, endpoint protection, cloud security, and threat intelligence.

Upstream provides cybersecurity for connected vehicles and mobility systems. Its platform uses data and behavioral analytics to detect threats across connected-car and automotive environments.

Pentera provides automated security-validation technology. Pentera continuously tests enterprise environments against attack techniques to identify exploitable weaknesses and validate security controls.

Cato Networks provides a cloud-native SASE platform combining networking and security. Cato connects users, branches, applications, and cloud environments while applying unified security controls.

0din by Mozilla focuses on security research and testing for AI systems. Its work examines vulnerabilities in models, agents, and AI-enabled applications through adversarial research.

Acalvio Technologies provides cyber-deception and identity-threat detection technology. Its platform uses deception techniques to identify attackers and expose malicious activity inside enterprise environments.

Akto provides API and agentic-AI security technology. Akto helps organizations discover APIs and AI assets, test them for weaknesses, monitor behavior, and apply security controls.

Anomali provides threat-intelligence and security-analytics technology. Anomali helps security teams combine external intelligence with enterprise telemetry to identify malicious activity.

Appdome provides mobile-application defense technology. Appdome helps developers protect apps against malware, fraud, tampering, bots, and other mobile threats.

1Password provides identity security, password management, secrets management, and access technology. The platform helps employees and developers securely access credentials, applications, and infrastructure.

Absolute Security provides endpoint resilience and security technology. Absolute helps organizations maintain visibility, control, recovery, and security across distributed enterprise devices.

Abstract Security provides security-data and analytics technology. Its platform helps security teams work with large volumes of telemetry while improving detection and investigation workflows.

ActiveState provides secure software-development and open-source supply-chain technology. ActiveState helps teams manage language runtimes, packages, dependencies, and software provenance.

Adaptive Security develops AI-driven human-risk and social-engineering defense technology. Adaptive Security helps organizations prepare employees for AI-enabled phishing, impersonation, and emerging attacks.

Aikido Security provides application security for development teams. Aikido combines code, dependency, cloud, container, API, and other security capabilities in one platform.

Airia provides enterprise AI orchestration, governance, and security technology. Airia helps organizations deploy AI applications while controlling access, data usage, security, and governance.

Airlock Digital provides application-control and allowlisting technology. Airlock helps organizations control which software can execute across endpoints and servers.

Akamai Technologies provides cloud computing, content delivery, and cybersecurity infrastructure. Its security products protect applications, APIs, networks, cloud workloads, and users across distributed environments.

Upwind provides runtime-focused cloud-security technology. Upwind uses workload context to help teams detect threats, prioritize exposures, and secure cloud applications while they are running.

Cohesity provides data security, backup, recovery, and resilience technology. Cohesity helps enterprises protect critical data, respond to ransomware, and recover systems across hybrid environments.

Veracode provides application-risk and software-security technology. Veracode helps development teams identify vulnerabilities across source code, applications, dependencies, and software supply chains.

Mate Security develops an agentic SOC platform. Mate uses AI agents to support detection, triage, investigation, response, and threat hunting across security operations.

Daylight Security provides agentic managed security operations. Daylight combines AI agents with security expertise to investigate alerts and respond to threats.

LevelBlue provides managed cybersecurity, consulting, threat intelligence, and security-operations services. LevelBlue works with enterprises looking to strengthen monitoring, response, and cyber resilience.

Abnormal Security provides behavioral security for email and identity environments. Abnormal applies AI to detect phishing, business email compromise, account takeover, and identity-based attacks.

When and where was Black Hat USA 2026?

Black Hat USA 2026 took place August 1–6, 2026 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Which major cybersecurity companies were at Black Hat USA 2026?

Major cybersecurity companies represented included Cisco, Qualys, ReliaQuest, SentinelOne, ServiceNow, ThreatLocker, Sophos, Tenable, Trend Micro, Vectra AI, Wiz, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Cyera, Check Point, Fortinet, and F5.

Which AI security companies were at Black Hat USA 2026?

AI-security companies included DeepKeep, Noma Security, Clover Security, Prophet Security, Vega Security, Aurascape, Akto, Adaptive Security, Verax AI, 7AI, Mate Security, and Daylight Security. Anthropic also appeared in Black Hat’s AI-focused programming.

Which cloud security companies were at Black Hat USA 2026?

Cloud-security companies included Wiz, Sysdig, Prowler, Upwind, ZEST Security, Cloudflare, Google Cloud Security, Akamai Technologies, Cyera, and Cohesity.

Which application security companies were at Black Hat USA 2026?

Application-security companies included Checkmarx, Mend.io, Cycode, Veracode, Semgrep, Aikido Security, Appdome, Akto, Backslash Security, and ActiveState.

Which security operations and SOC companies were at Black Hat USA 2026?

Security-operations companies included ReliaQuest, 7AI, Vega Security, Prophet Security, Anvilogic, Stellar Cyber, AirMDR, Mate Security, Daylight Security, Huntress, and Sygnia.

Which exposure-management and security-validation companies were at Black Hat USA 2026?

Companies working across exposure management, attack simulation, automated pentesting, and security validation included Qualys, Tenable, Cymulate, Pentera, SafeBreach, Horizon3.ai, and XBOW.

Which identity and human-risk security companies were at Black Hat USA 2026?

Companies represented across identity and human risk included 1Password, Microsoft, Thales, Oak, KnowBe4, Adaptive Security, Fable Security, and Absolute Security.

Which threat-intelligence companies were at Black Hat USA 2026?

Threat and risk-intelligence companies included Anomali, Dataminr, Censys, Blackbird.AI, Vectra AI, VulnCheck, and security platforms combining threat intelligence with detection and response.

What cybersecurity trends stood out at Black Hat USA 2026?

Major themes included agentic AI security, AI-powered SecOps, cloud-runtime protection, application and software supply-chain security, identity threats, continuous exposure management, autonomous pentesting, security-data infrastructure, and defense against increasingly automated attacks.