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Enterprise security at machine speed: AWS Black Hat 2026 preview
Black Hat 2026 (Aug 1-6, 2026) brings together over 22,000 security practitioners, researchers, and CISOs who build, break, and defend enterprise infrastructure. They’re security professionals who push the limits of offensive and defensive security and demand proof over promises. As frontier security models like Mythos reshape the enterprise landscape, they need security that operates at the same speed as the events they face. This August, Amazon Web Services (AWS) returns to Las Vegas to meet with our customers and partners to show how we’re delivering enterprise security at machine speed.
At Black Hat USA 2026, connect with AWS through live demos, a practitioner session on autonomous security operations, and an executive roundtable on building durable AI security architectures, plus networking receptions with customers and partners. Here’s where to find us and what you’ll take away.
Experience AWS security innovation in action
Visit us at Booth #1648 to explore five interactive demo pedestals, each aligned to a pillar of our AI-powered security story:
- Post-Mythos enterprise security: AWS uses multiple frontier AI reasoning models to find issues, validate exploitability, and autonomously fix exposures, compressing mean-time-to-remediation from days to minutes. Learn how AWS Continuum helps you find risks before you ship, prioritize by real business impact, and remediate at machine speed while you stay in control.
- AI-powered investigations: Amazon GuardDuty AI-powered investigations automatically analyze findings and the accounts around them to separate true threats from benign activity at scale. Drawing on log activity, resource configuration, internet reachability, and historical findings, it delivers triage reports that match expert-level accuracy, freeing your team to focus on what matters.
- Purpose-built AI workload security: AWS extends the enterprise security controls you already trust to address the unique demands of AI workloads. Amazon Bedrock helps you build and deploy generative AI applications, with hundreds of top foundation models plus built-in safety controls, guardrails, and evaluation tools. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity keeps you in full control of what your AI agents can access.
- Full-stack multicloud security: AWS Security Hub Extended delivers full-stack security by integrating AWS services with 21 curated partner solutions across nine categories, from endpoint and identity to AI, with pay-as-you-go pricing, one console, and one bill. All findings flow in OCSF format with zero integration work, and a risk correlation engine traces paths across multicloud so your team fixes root causes rather than chasing symptoms.
- AWS Partner solutions: A dedicated partner demo pedestal runs live demonstrations from select AWS Partners, showing how their solutions integrate with AWS to address your most critical security challenges. With over 25 partners rotating throughout Business Hall hours, you get a firsthand view of how these integrations work together to strengthen your security posture.
Theater sessions: Want to go deeper on a specific topic without committing to a full session? During expo hours, our theater hosts 15-minute AWS and partner talks curated around the challenges enterprise security teams face today. Topics range from enabling AI adoption securely, to unifying visibility across clouds, to automating response. Subject matter experts from AWS and our partners lead each session and give you insights you can bring back to your team. Featured sessions include:
- From finding to fix at machine speed with AWS Continuum
- Securing the agentic AI stack
- Architecting defense-in-depth for AI workloads
- Network security strategies for the post-Mythos era
- One console for unified full-stack security
For the latest theater session schedule, including dates and times, visit AWS at Black Hat 2026.
Engagement Zone: Take a quick break and test your detection skills in a gamified, hands-on challenge. Race the clock to resolve security issues and collect power-ups that speed your mission to secure the environment. Rack up your score, lock in your percentile rank, and see how you stack up against every other player.
Beyond the booth: Sessions and executive roundtable
AWS security experts share insights at speaking sessions and host an executive roundtable at Black Hat USA 2026.
Speaking Session | Machine-Speed Defense: Building an Autonomous Security Operations Loop for the AI Era
Wednesday, August 5, 10:15–10:35 AM PDT
Pulse Stage 2
In a post-Mythos world, organizations need to use AI-powered reasoning to discover, correlate, validate, and remediate security exposures at machine speed. This session provides a blueprint for building an autonomous security operations loop, using business-context graphs and sandbox validation, to unlock machine-speed defense as a durable competitive edge.
Executive Roundtable | Autonomous Defense at Cloud Scale: Critical Choices for Security Leaders Today
Wednesday, August 5, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM PDT
Breakers F
As agentic AI and frontier models reshape the threat landscape, foundational security remains essential, and organizations that layer autonomous workload governance on top can turn AI into a true security force multiplier. This executive roundtable explores how to build a durable, adaptive security harness that accounts for the real economics of AI-powered defense and evolves alongside rapidly advancing models and techniques.
Briefing | ThreatForest: Automated Attack Trees from Source Code
Thursday, August 6, 2:35–3:15 PM PDT
Jasmine, Level 3
Threat modeling is critical, but manual processes can’t keep pace with cloud-focused architectures. This briefing will dive into how ThreatForest uses six specialized AI agents to automatically analyze source code and produce validated attack trees mapped to MITRE ATT&CK with actionable mitigations. Attendees walk away with the open source tool and a reusable multi-agent architecture pattern.
AWS activities and events
Beyond the expo floor, AWS hosts a portfolio of ancillary events built for focused conversations and networking across the security community. Join us at:
- Global Startup Program Reception: For the emerging customer and builder community
- AWS Customer & Partner Appreciation Event: Welcome reception honoring the customers and partners we’re proud to work alongside
Security LIVE! broadcast
Catch Security LIVE! on-site at Mandalay Bay on Wednesday, August 5 and Thursday, August 6. This infotainment-style broadcast brings AWS and AWS Partners together to solve real security challenges for customers across 20-minute conversational segments, covering everything from data protection and compliance to application and perimeter security. With over 30 segments, Security LIVE! showcases the breadth of the AWS security partner ecosystem. Stop by the set to watch it unfold live.
Join us in Las Vegas
Whether you’re exploring how to secure AI workloads, adopting autonomous remediation as frontier models like Mythos reshape the landscape, or unifying security across domains and clouds, the AWS team at Black Hat USA 2026 is ready to help.
Learn more about AWS Security solutions at AWS Cloud Security.
See you in Las Vegas, August 3–6, 2026.