Black Hat USA

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Gearing up for Black Hat USA 2025

As a technical advocate focused on cybersecurity in Learn with Cisco, my mission is to empower our community with the knowledge and tools to thrive in today’s ever-evolving landscape. Few cybersecurity events embody the spirit of innovation and learning quite like Black Hat USA. I’m incredibly excited to share that I will be attending this […]

July 31, 2025 3 min read
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MITM Training at Black Hat USA 2016

To prevent a security breach and loss of critical business data, security teams must be diligent in defining, identifying, and classifying security gaps in their organization’s network. Many security teams conduct pentesting as a way to assess and mitigate any potential gaps.  As a consulting engineer for Cisco Security Services, I’ve observed a deeper understanding […]

August 3, 2016 2 min read
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BREACH, CRIME and Black Hat

During the last three years, the security research community has been having a lot of fun with SSL/TLS uncovering a few nifty attacks. First, in 2011, Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong released the details about the BEAST attack on Transport Layer Security (TLS) at the ekoparty Security Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I wrote a […]

August 6, 2013 3 min read
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Cisco Live USA 2013: Recap from a Network Security Engineer

Having just returned home to New Jersey from Cisco Live US in Orlando, Florida, I thought I’d share my experiences as a Network Security Engineer both attending and presenting at this year’s conference. There were approximately 20,000 attendees at this year’s conference, which I believe set a new Cisco Live attendance record! Considering the huge size […]

July 8, 2013 3 min read