Black Hat 2026 is shaping up to be another AI-heavy conference, but this year’s announcements suggest the industry is moving beyond simply adding copilots to existing products.
Vendors are increasingly packaging AI into operational workflows, while pairing automation with governance, exposure management, and recovery capabilities aimed at making autonomous security more practical for enterprise environments.
Across this year’s launches, several themes stand out. Security vendors emphasize attack path analysis over raw vulnerability counts, integrating external threat intelligence directly into security and recovery workflows, and introducing purpose-built AI agents that promise to accelerate...