The recent conclusion of Black Hat USA 2025, which saw over 20,000 security professionals converge in Las Vegas, served as a powerful barometer for the state of the cybersecurity industry. The event, with its more than 100 briefings and 115 in-person tool demos, underscored the continued evolution of the threat landscape. The conversations in the business hall and around the conference revealed a cybersecurity world trying to grapple with new forms of risk, a shifting vendor landscape, and an ever-expanding attack surface that now extends to every corner of our digital lives.
