Cisco is honored to mark our tenth 12 months constructing and safeguarding the community for Black Hat Europe in London, because the Official Safety Cloud Supplier and a proud companion of the Black Hat NOC (Community Operations Heart)—the longest-standing partnership of its form.
We work with different official suppliers to deliver the {hardware}, software program and engineers to construct and safe the Black Hat Europe community: Arista, Corelight, Jamf and Palo Alto Networks.
The first objective of the NOC is to keep uninterrupted community stability. As well as, companions present seamless safety, complete visibility, and automation by integrating a SOC (Safety Operations Heart) inside the NOC—established on the ExCel Convention Centre in simply three days.
Attendees might monitor real-time community site visitors quantity and safety standing on companion dashboards displayed on screens outdoors the NOC throughout visiting hours.
Since 2016, Cisco has protected the Black Hat Europe community, starting with automated malware evaluation utilizing Risk Grid. Through the years, Cisco’s involvement has grown to satisfy the convention’s evolving wants by incorporating further parts of the Cisco Safety Cloud into each community and safety operations.
Black Hat handpicks its community and safety companions, with NOC participation accessible by invitation solely to make sure each range and a spirit of full collaboration. Our NOC workforce brings collectively a variety of applied sciences and organizations, all dedicated to steady innovation and seamless integration to ship a strong, complete SOC cybersecurity structure.
New for Black Hat Europe, we built-in Arista CloudVision and CV-CUE into Duo Listing SSO. We additionally added Jamf Professional Server MDM, as they began the official partnership in London.
The NOC management enabled Cisco and different companions to introduce further pre-approved software program and {hardware} options, enhancing our inner effectivity and increasing our visibility capabilities. Nevertheless, Cisco shouldn’t be the official supplier for Prolonged Detection & Response, Safety Occasion and Incident Administration, Firewall, Community Detection & Response or Collaboration.
- Cisco XDR: Risk Searching / Risk Intelligence Enrichment / Govt dashboards / Automation with Webex. The Cisco XDR Command Heart dashboard tiles made it straightforward to see the standing of every of the related Cisco Safety applied sciences (take a look at the Rene Straube’s risk searching weblog).
- Cisco XDR Analytics (Previously Safe Cloud Analytics/Stealthwatch Cloud): Community site visitors visibility and risk detection.
- Splunk Cloud Platform and Splunk Enterprise Safety: Integrations and dashboards
- Cisco Webex: Incident notification and workforce collaboration
As well as, we deployed proof of worth tenants for safety:
We admire alphaMountain.ai, Pulsedive and StealthMole donating full licenses to Cisco, to be used within the Black Hat Europe 2025 NOC.
Study Extra About Cisco at Black Hat Europe
Discover deeper insights into innovation, risk searching, and integrations by diving into our Black Hat Europe blogs, the place we spotlight superior SOC practices, Cisco XDR and Splunk Enterprise Safety collaborations, and the newest safety cloud improvements showcased at Black Hat occasions. These blogs present detailed protection of how built-in telemetry, automated alerting, and AI-powered analytics improve risk detection and response capabilities for safety groups.
We’re already planning for extra innovation at Black Hat Asia, held in Singapore subsequent April 2026.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the Cisco NOC/SOC workforce:
- Safety Cloud Innovation: Ryan Maclennan
- Integrations: Ivan Berlinson
- Breach Safety: Rene Straube and Piotr Jarzynka
- Person Safety: Rob DeCooman
- ThousandEyes: Roberto D’Amato and Susheela Francis
- Splunk Incident Response Supervisor: Tony Iacobelli
- MDM Knowledgeable: Paul Fidler
- Distant Crew: Adi Sankar
Additionally, to our NOC companions Palo Alto Networks (particularly James Holland and Jason Reverri), Corelight (particularly Mark Overholser and Eldon Koyle), Arista Networks (particularly Landon Harsh), Jamf (particularly Adam Derrick) and all the Black Hat / Informa Tech workers (particularly Grifter ‘Neil Wyler’, Bart Stump, Steve Fink, James Pope, Michael Spicer, Jess Jung and Steve Oldenbourg).
About Black Hat
Black Hat is the cybersecurity trade’s most established and in-depth safety occasion sequence. Based in 1997, these annual, multi-day occasions present attendees with the newest in cybersecurity analysis, growth, and tendencies. Pushed by the wants of the group, Black Hat occasions showcase content material instantly from the group via Briefings displays, Trainings programs, Summits, and extra. Because the occasion sequence the place all profession ranges and tutorial disciplines convene to collaborate, community, and talk about the cybersecurity matters that matter most to them, attendees can discover Black Hat occasions in the US, Canada, Europe, Center East and Africa, and Asia. For extra data, please go to the Black Hat web site.
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