Are you getting ready for the upcoming Black Hat USA 2024 event, an
internationally recognized cybersecurity event providing the most
technical and relevant information security research, now in its 27th
year. The
event is quickly approaching, taking place August 3-8, 2024, returning
to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV with a 6-day
program.
Ahead of the show, VMblog received an exclusive interview with Rachel Park, Director, Product Marketing, SentinelOne, a global leader in AI-powered security. Make sure to add them to your MUST SEE list.
VMblog: Before we
get into it, can you give us a quick overview of the company? What should folks know?
Rachel Park: SentinelOne delivers world-class cybersecurity powered by
AI. Our solutions are built on an architecture for the modern age and empower
security teams to overcome the challenges they face in defending today's
complex threat landscape with intelligence and autonomy. With one platform, one
data lake and one agent, we protect the entire enterprise across endpoint,
cloud and data. Leading organizations-including Fortune 10, Fortune 500, Global
2000 companies, and prominent governments-all trust SentinelOne to secure their
environments.
VMblog: The show
is focused on cybersecurity. What
specific problems is your company and technology addressing?
Park: Generative AI has opened the door to a new and
increasingly sophisticated set of threats to the enterprise. Adversaries are
using it to execute machine speed attacks with less dwell time and we're seeing
a higher volume of automated, simultaneous incursions. Deepfakes - both voice and video - are being used to
destabilize trust and run scams. The barriers to entry on sophisticated
phishing have been lowered dramatically if not outright removed.
Hackers have also figured out how to use AI to observe
and predict how defenders will respond to their malware evasion techniques and
adjust them on the fly. And we're seeing a proliferation of adaptive malware,
polymorphic malware and autonomous malware propagation.
All of this has made cyberspace an increasingly dangerous
and difficult environment to defend. SentinelOne is harnessing the power of AI
to help organizations tame the complexity.
Machine-generated attacks require machine-generated
responses, and AI is a super facilitator that can bring order to chaos. With
AI, enterprises can detect and prevent threats with speed and efficiency and
secure a broader range of assets better than humans can. They aren't limited by
how many people are in their SOC, or the expertise of their team. Instead, they
are empowered to see things in real time, at scale, and defend their
environment against attacks they don't yet understand in an infinitely scalable
way.
This is what SentinelOne's AI-powered SingularityTM
Platform empowers security teams to do.
Resiliency is also critical - it's never advisable to put
all of your eggs in the same basket. The Singularity Platform is built on a
redundant, federated and controllable architecture, enabling organizations to
drive resiliency and stability across every part of the stack.
VMblog: The market
is a crowded space. What is it about
your company and technology that sets you apart from the competition? What are your differentiators?
Park: SentinelOne delivers real solutions to real problems
security teams face. Our offerings leverage the industry's most advanced
generative AI technology and leading data insights to supercharge threat
prevention, detection and response and empower customers to secure their
operations from end-to-end in a simple, unified way.
The Singularity Platform is a true platform that was
architected from the start for resiliency and stability and has been battle
tested and proven in the most critical environments.
With SentinelOne, enterprises get one platform, one data
lake, one agent and one console and full support for all environments - public,
private, and hybrid cloud, as well as on-premises environments. Protect
Windows, Linux, Containers, Kubernetes, virtual machines, physical servers and
Serverless.
VMblog: What are
some of the top priorities you believe attendees at Black Hat should be
considering for 2023/2024?
Park: There's still a lot of hype surrounding AI and what it
can and can't do. As with all complex technologies there is a lot of fear,
uncertainty and doubt in the market that companies need to focus on breaking
through. Start by assessing the macro. Do you have the skills and resources to
respond to current machine speed attacks? How could AI augment them? Define
adoption. Where will you start? What does progress look like for you? Shake up
how you evaluate AI-powered solutions and
go back to basics. Test the technology. Validate the claims. Think for
yourselves. Eliminate your biases. Reset your implicit trust.
VMblog: You are
sponsoring the upcoming Black Hat USA event.
How can attendees find you at the show?
Does your booth have a theme? How
many folks are you sending?
Park: We are a Titanium sponsor of Black Hat USA 2024 and you
can find us on the show floor at booth #1620. We have a large group of
SentinelOne employees joining us, including some of our C-suite and senior
level executives, along with our SMEs who will be able to speak to all things
S1.
VMblog: Is this
your first time sponsoring Black Hat? If
not, how many times have you sponsored before?
And, what keeps you coming back?
Park: We've been a sponsor of Black Hat for many years. It is
one of the industry's premier events and an incredible opportunity to network
with like-minded defenders whom we love to engage with on our shared mission to
make the world more secure.
VMblog: Does your
company have any speaking slots at Black Hat?
If so, can you tell us more about those sessions so people can get them
on their schedules?
Park: The SentinelOne team is set to deliver four talks that
attendees will not want to miss:
On Wednesday, August 7, Chief Trust Officer, Alex Stamos,
will share how he "kicked his Microsoft addiction" and learned to protect
companies from Redmond's mistakes.
Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, AVP of Research will unveil
the details of a project aimed at illuminating the blind spot surrounding Rust
malware so that threat researchers can better understand and accurately
characterize the complex malware ecosystem before it reaches critical mass and
blindsides the industry.
And Warwick Webb, Vice President of Managed Detection and
Response, will team with Adriana Corona, Director of Product Management for
AI/ML, to lay out the future of MDR services in an AI world. They'll discuss
how Purple AI, our AI analyst, will power - and be powered by - our global team
of MDR experts as they work around the clock to detect and respond to breaches
on behalf of our customers.
On Thursday, Cloud Security Evangelist Chris Hosking will
discuss how organizations can evolve their cloud security with an attacker's
mindset and detail how SentinelOne's CNAPP approach is helping organizations do
it.
VMblog: Is your
company involved in any parties during the event?
Park: We are excited to be sponsoring parties with our channel
partners Guidepost and Optiv on Tuesday and Wednesday evening and the Pentera
HACKasan After Party on Thursday.
We'll also be hosting a CxO Driving Experience with our
integration partner Snyk.
Find out more: https://s1.ai/BH2024
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