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From DARPA to Black Hat: An SRT Researcher’s Next Chapter
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From DARPA to Black Hat: An SRT Researcher’s Next Chapter

Synack Red Team researcher Malcolm Stagg takes the stage at Black Hat USA 2026 on August 6 to present three years of independent research on a new class of network infrastructure attacks. Here's who he is and why the talk belongs on your calendar.

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Ryan Rutan
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Managed Bug Bounty: Why Provable Coverage Beats Blind Spend Perspectives on Security

Managed Bug Bounty: Why Provable Coverage Beats Blind Spend

Most security leaders can report what they spent on bug bounty last year. Far fewer can understand the value being delivered by proving what it actually tested. Open programs show which bugs were reported, not which assets received real, skilled attention. Managed bug bounty closes that gap. Researcher-hour and traffic analytics turn testing depth into evidence you can measure, not an assumption you have to trust, giving you coverage you can hand to a board, an auditor, or a compliance team.

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Dave Henderson
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Europe Is Regulating AI. America Is Accelerating AI. Both Need Offensive Security Validation. Perspectives on Security

Europe Is Regulating AI. America Is Accelerating AI. Both Need Offensive Security Validation.

Europe regulates AI through risk tiers and conformity checks. America accelerates AI through deregulation and infrastructure speed. Both models ask different questions but land on the same gap: neither tells you whether a live AI system actually holds up against real attacks. Enterprise AI security depends on evidence, not paperwork or policy. Continuous, human-validated offensive testing is the layer that both regulatory philosophies are missing and that every organization operating across borders actually needs.

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Angela Heindl-Schober, CMO at Synack
Angela Heindl-Schober
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BOD 26-04 Makes Exploitability the Priority Signal: Scanners Can’t Measure It Public Sector

BOD 26-04 Makes Exploitability the Priority Signal: Scanners Can’t Measure It

CISA's Binding Operational Directive 26-04, issued June 10, 2026, replaces the KEV directive with a four-variable risk model: asset exposure, KEV status, exploit automation, and technical impact. CISA publishes three of the four answers generically per CVE. The two that decide whether prioritization is defensible (real exposure and real impact in your environment) can only be proven by testing the asset the way an adversary would. Continuous, human-validated pentesting is built to produce that evidence.

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Scott Ormiston, Federal Solutions Architect
Scott Ormiston
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How Iberia Cards Uses Sara AI Pentesting to Stay Ahead of Modern Threats Customer Stories

How Iberia Cards Uses Sara AI Pentesting to Stay Ahead of Modern Threats

Iberia Cards CISO José Manuel Rivera García explains why he's stuck with Synack's PTaaS model across multiple organizations, and how running Sara AI Pentest alongside human researchers helps him balance regulatory compliance with real risk reduction. He also shares candid advice for other CISOs on avoiding the false sense of security that comes from infrequent testing and over-reliance on perimeter controls.

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Paul Mote
Paul Mote
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America’s AI Action Plan Is About Speed: AI Security Needs to Keep Up Perspectives on Security

America’s AI Action Plan Is About Speed: AI Security Needs to Keep Up

America's AI Action Plan puts speed at the center of federal AI policy, reducing regulatory friction and accelerating adoption across government and industry. That same speed expands the AI attack surface just as fast, through new agents, APIs, and tool-calling chains shipped every week. Point-in-time pentests and quarterly assessments cannot keep pace with systems that change that often. AI security testing needs to run continuously and be backed by human-validated evidence.

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Angela Heindl-Schober, CMO at Synack
Angela Heindl-Schober
8 min read
The AI Pentesting Platform Checklist for Regulated Enterprises Agentic AI

The AI Pentesting Platform Checklist for Regulated Enterprises

Regulated enterprises evaluating AI pentesting platforms should assess eight capabilities: FedRAMP Moderate authorization or higher, multi-framework compliance support, human-in-the-loop with agentic AI, verified zero-false-positive findings, bidirectional workflow integrations, self-service launch, auditable coverage visibility, and full offensive security platform capabilities. Vendors who can't clearly distinguish their AI from an automated scanner are likely selling exactly that.

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KymberLee Russell, Product Marketing Manager at Synack
KymberLee Russell
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