Cisco at Black Hat USA 2025

Join us in Las Vegas, August 2-7, 2025
Cisco Booth: 2726

Engage with us through workshops, sessions, and Lunch & Learn events. Pre-reserve your spot today

Master the Art of Defense with Agentic AI and Cisco XDR
Rob Gresham | Principal Engineer, Threat Detection and Response, Cisco
Date: Thursday, August 7 | 11:30am – 12:20pm (Oceanside E)
Format: 50-minute Workshop

Join the Cisco XDR Art of Defense Workshop and learn how to outmaneuver modern adversaries with cutting-edge technologies such as agentic AI. Inspired by the timeless strategies of Sun Tzu’s Art of War, this session will arm you with the tactics and tools needed to defend your organization from modern threats. Plus, you’ll hear directly from the world-renowned Cisco Talos threat research team on the latest threat intelligence shaping the battlefield. This is more than just a workshop – it’s your chance to transform your approach to cybersecurity.

From Triage to Threat Modeling: Real-World Security LLM in Action
Dhruv Kedia | AI Researcher, Cisco Foundation AI
Yaron Singer | VP of Engineering and AI, Cisco
Date: Thursday, August 7 | 10:20am-11:10am (Oceanside E)
Format: 50-minute Workshop

This session offers a practical look at how real security teams are deploying the model today. You’ll see interactive, live demos based on active pilots inside large-scale security programs and walk away with prompt patterns, integration tips, and access to the open-source model—everything you need to begin experimenting in your own environment. Join us to see how a security-tuned LLM can plug into your tools, augment your workflows, and help your team operate faster, smarter, and at greater scale. Bring your laptop—this session is designed to be hands-on.

Cisco Talos Briefing on GenAI: How it’s Being Used as a Lure, a Tool, and a Weapon
Nick Biasini| Head of Outreach, Cisco Talos, Splunk, a Cisco Company
Date: Wednesday, August 6 | 11:20am-12:10pm (Mandalay Bay I)
Format: 50-Minute Session

Generative AI (GAI) is everywhere, and the threat landscape is no exception. Cisco Talos has already seen malware masquerading as AI tooling being served via malvertising. Now, criminals and state sponsored groups are taking a keen interest in how they can leverage AI to improve their coding, networking, and even business efficiency. Finally, we’re seeing attackers target GAI to jailbreak or compromise training data to reveal sensitive data. This talk will cover all the ways Cisco Talos seeing GAI play a role in the threat landscape, and how organizations can both leverage GAI for gains and protect it from external abuse.

Engage with Cisco Talos over Backdoors & Breaches
Joe Marshall|Cisco Talos w/ support from Talos Threat Intelligence, Cisco
Date: Wednesday, August 6 | 12:05pm-1:30pm (Lagoon K/L – Level 2)
Format: 60-Minute Lunch & Learn

Join us as we discuss and develop incident response plans in real-time using real scenarios over a game of Backdoors & Breaches, an Incident Response card game developed by Black Hills Information Security. Members from Talos Threat Intelligence will lead tables through the game over lunch and discuss recent trends and events.