Sumedh Thakar Qualys Black Hat 2026

Summary

Cyber risk is changing faster than most organizations can respond. At ROCon EMEA, Forty million patches went out last year with a human involved in exactly none of them. That is not a roadmap slide. It already ... Enterprise AI is moving faster than teams can prove it is safe. Yash Jhunjhunwala shows how Runtime security is moving from shipping data to a back end to defending at the edge. Abhinav Mishra explains the self-defending ... Filmed live at ROCon 2025 in Houston, this keynote from Frontier AI is finding vulnerabilities faster than teams can patch them, and attackers are weaponizing flaws within hours. Which of your prioritized vulnerabilities can attackers actually exploit in your environment, against your firewalls and EDR? Attackers can chain low-severity misconfigurations into an attack path in minutes, while audit prep still runs on manual evidence. CTEM helps you prioritize risk, but attackers now exploit vulnerabilities around the day of disclosure. Payal Mehrotra explains how ...