Dark Reading News Desk Comes To You Live From Black Hat

Gautam Aggarwal, CMO of Bay Dynamics, to discuss cyber risk predictive analytics

Rod Beckstrom, founding Director of the U.S. National Cybersecurity Center and Chairman of the Global Council on the Future of the Internet, to discuss geo-political aspects of cybersecurity

Roger Hellman, global marketing manager for security solutions at IBM

Cory Scott, director of house security at LinkedIn, to discuss a new Tactical Security Program and the art of "getting things done”

Adam Meyers, VP of intelligence for CrowdStrike, to discuss intelligence-driven security

Stacey Halota, CISO of Graham Holdings Co., to discuss mobile security

Jeremiah Grossman, founder of WhiteHat Security and member of the Black Hat Review Board, to discuss trends in web security and give a behind-the-scenes look at the Black Hat Briefings selection process

Patrick Wardle,  director of research at Synack, to give a rundown about "writing bad@$$ malware for OS X"

John Dickson, CISSP,  principal of the Denim Group, to provide the attendee's perspective on what's cool at Black Hat

Greg Conti, director of the Army Cyber Institute at West Point, Tom Cross, CTO of Drawbridge Networks, and David Raymond, associate professor at West Point -- to discuss smart cities security and their session "Pen Testing a City"

Jason Larsen, principal security consultant at IOActive, to discuss physical attacks and smart buildings/cities

Raffael Marty,  founder and CEO of PixlCloud, about using visualization to make log analysis and forensic investigations more efficient and effective

Richard Bejtlich, chief security strategist of FireEye and senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, to discuss thinking strategically about digital security

Paul Vixie,  CEO of Farsight Security, to discuss how passive DNS can minimize the collateral damage done by law enforcement when they take down organized cybercrime groups

Chris Wysopal, co-founder and CTO of Veracode, to talk about application security and vulnerabilities in fundamental components of open-source software and protocols

Jim Anderson, president of the Americas, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, to discuss cyber defense, threat intelligence, and analytics

Engin Kirda, chief architect at Lastline, to discuss how most ransomware isn't at complex as you think

Marion Marschalek, malware reverse engineer on duty for Cyphort, to discuss the peculiarities of nation-state malware research

Arian Evans, VP of Product Strategy, RiskIQ, online digital asset inventory, discovery, and security firm

Bob Stratton, general partner of MACH37, to identify the hot areas are for security funding and the common mistakes that security startups make

Kelly Jackson-Higgins, executive editor of Dark Reading, to give a rundown of the top stories and trends out of Black Hat so far

Shehzad Merchant, CTO Gigamon, network visibility, analytics, and security provider

Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO of Onapsis, to discuss exploiting and defending SAP systems

Katie Moussouris, chief policy officer for HackerOne, to discuss how the Wassenaar Arrangement's export control of intrusion software affects the security industry

Paul Kurtz, former cybersecurity advisor to the White House, on the importance of information sharing between the public and private sectors, and the impacts of legislation on cybersecurity

Dan Kaminsky, chief scientist and founder of White Ops and keynote speaker of the CISO Summit, to discuss the future of infosec

Alexander Matrosov and Oleksandr Bazhaniuk, security researchers for Intel's Advanced Threat Research team, to discuss attacking hypervisors using firmware and hardware

Adam Kozy, researcher at CrowdStrike, to discuss China's Great Cannon offensive system

Kyle Wilhoit, senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, to break down real attacks against gas pump monitoring systems