AWS at Black Hat 2026

Wednesday, August 5 | 10:15 am - 10:35 am PDT
Pulse Stage 2

Frontier foundation models have given adversaries the ability to discover and exploit vulnerabilities at machine speed. This presents new challenges, but also new opportunities for security organizations. By leveraging the same AI-powered reasoning capabilities that accelerate offensive techniques, organizations can also enable security teams to discover, correlate, validate, and remediate exposures. This session demonstrates how a continuous security loop turns this moment into operational advantage. We'll show how a business-context graph can rank findings by real exploitability and how defenders can validate attack paths in isolated and sandboxes to implement an autonomous security operations loop. Practitioners will leave with a blueprint for transforming their enterprise security by unlocking machine-speed defense as a durable competitive edge. 

Wednesday, August 5 at 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Breakers F

The rise of agentic AI and frontier models has created an opportunity for security leaders to rethink how they protect and operate at cloud scale. However, foundational security remains table stakes even as the landscape evolves. Organizations that extend these fundamentals with autonomous workload governance will turn AI into a security force multiplier. This roundtable brings together security leaders to explore what stays constant, what's new, and how to navigate the intersection. We'll discuss how frontier models serve as force multipliers for both attackers and defenders, what architectural patterns build resilience into AI infrastructure, and the real economics of running AI-powered defense. Most critically, we'll tackle how enterprises can build a durable security harness, one designed to adapt as models and techniques continue to evolve