Black Hat USA is the most technically rigorous security conference in the world. For over 25 years it has served as the venue where researchers publicly disclose critical vulnerabilities, present new attack techniques, and release tools that reshape the threat landscape.
Three Components
Black Hat Trainings (July 29 – August 1) — Two and four-day intensive training courses led by working practitioners. Courses span exploitation, red teaming, reverse engineering, cloud security, and more. Seats are limited and typically sell out months in advance.
Black Hat Briefings (August 6–7) — The main conference. Peer-reviewed research presentations from the world’s top offensive and defensive security researchers. Each year brings new vulnerability classes, nation-state technique disclosures, and tool releases.
Black Hat Arsenal — Open to all Briefings attendees. Researchers demo security tools live, and many open-source major projects during the event.
Who Should Attend
- Penetration testers and red teamers seeking cutting-edge techniques
- Defenders and incident responders learning what attackers are actually doing
- Security researchers presenting and consuming peer-reviewed work
- CISOs and security executives tracking the threat landscape
What Makes It Different
Unlike broader security events, Black Hat is deliberately technical. Presentations go deep — expect CVE numbers, proof-of-concept code, and live demos. It is not an event for introductions to security concepts.
The Business Hall
The adjacent Business Hall features 300+ security vendors. It’s a useful way to evaluate tools and meet vendor security teams, though the Briefings themselves are the real draw.
Nowhere else do you get this density of offensive security knowledge in one place. Two days of Briefings contains more signal than a year of reading security blogs.
Early registration pricing is available through May 1.