Category: Events & Community Engagement

Cyber Risk in 2026: What Security Leaders Need to Pay Attention to Now

Featuring insights from DirectDefense’s fireside chat with Jim Broome, Rick McElroy, and Tim Armstrong Watch the Full Webinar The Reality: Cyber Risk Isn’t Changing – It’s Accelerating Budget cuts. Leaner teams. AI-generated code. Expanding attack surfaces. Cyber risk in 2026 doesn’t look entirely new, but it is moving faster, becoming harder to see, and shifting… Read more »

DirectDefense at RSAC 2026: Showcasing OT Defense in Action

Operational technology security is no longer a side conversation at RSA. It is central to the broader cybersecurity dialogue. As industrial environments become more connected, threat activity continues to evolve, and regulatory expectations increase, organizations are being pushed to strengthen how they detect and respond to incidents in OT environments. At RSA Conference 2026, DirectDefense… Read more »

Hacking the Human Voice: Our 1st Place Win at DEF CON’s Battle of the Bots

How do you build a bot that can out-talk human judgement in real time? At DEF CON’s first Battle of the Bots, we put ours to the test, and won. Team DirectDefense, consisting of Matt Bangert and Michael Tomlinson, were selected to compete in DEF CON’s first ever Battle of the Bots: Vishing Edition; a… Read more »

Apex Labs – DirectDefense’s Greg Leonard to Instruct SANS Institute Secure DevOps Course

Students will learn the fundamentals of DevOps and how DevOps teams can build and deliver secure software.  In a time when the drive for technology efficiencies has left security in the dust, organizations focused on developing code are now starting to realize the true importance of what secure DevOps means. DevOps security or DevSecOps is… Read more »