This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp …
First, a literal hot-topic: the triple-digit August heat. Plus, at one of the three (Black Hat), we expect to hear how all of the vendors' shiny new agents can solve all security woes, finding and defending against threats at machine speed and all of that. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Starting with BSides Las Vegas (August 3-5): This is the smallest, most relaxed, and most community-driven event of the three.
- ▪First, a literal hot-topic: the triple-digit August heat.
- ▪Plus, at one of the three (Black Hat), we expect to hear how all of the vendors' shiny new agents can solve all security woes, finding and defending against threats at machine speed and all of that.
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