At Black Hat, AI is helping security pros find threats—and creating new ones

You might think that the information-security professionals who show up in August at the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas would know to bring their A game to that gathering. But every year, the administrators of the show’s Network Operations Center (NOC) see a different, messier reality play out over the conference Wi-Fi. And at last week’s Black Hat, AI played an even larger part in that drama—as a tool and a threat. Agentic triage AI has delivered the biggest overall boost to NOC staffers in threat assessment, both by spotting suspicious behavior on the network and by helping dete...