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What to expect as BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON descend on Las Vegas
As the entire security industry descends on Las Vegas this week for Hacker Summer Camp – not one, but three conferences – attendees can count on two hot topics dominating the discussion.
First, a literal hot-topic: the triple-digit August heat. Second, and to no one’s surprise: agentic AI – how to govern and secure agents so they don’t go rogue and hack into other organizations’ servers (*cough* OpenAI *cough* Anthropic *cough*); what role, if any, lawmakers should play in regulating models, including open-weight and Chinese LLMs; and how the baddies are using agents for autonomous hacking operations.
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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