By By David Ramel08/06/2026
Publication Date: 2026-08-06 00:00:00
Black Hat USA 2026: Security Vendors Go Agentic
Black Hat USA 2026 opened its main conference in Las Vegas amid a wave of security product announcements built around AI agents, cloud runtime data, nonhuman identity, exposure management and automated testing. The event runs Aug. 1-6 at Mandalay Bay.
Agentic AI was, of course, everywhere. It’s increasingly being used by both the white hatters and the bad hackers, and security vendors are scrambling to keep pace with new stuff coming out all the time, so IT security pros eye this big conference carefully. Yesterday, we took a look at all the security research published during the event, again featuring agentic AI front and center.
Security vendors are addressing AI agents that invoke tools and APIs, cloud resources spread across multiple providers, data moving into large language model services, and software environments in which applications, identities and vulnerabilities cannot be assessed separately. Black Hat also added its first Healthcare Summit, held with HIMSS, broadening the event’s focus on sector-specific infrastructure and operational risk.
The announcements reviewed for this roundup do not represent a single product category. They include cloud-native application protection, identity controls, data…