Black Hat USA 2022: DNSFilter, NetWitness, BlackBerry, CrowdStrike, More

by DNSFilter Team on Aug 10, 2022 12:00:00 AM

Black Hat USA 2022 kicked off Wednesday in Las Vegas with a flurry of news and research from DNSFilter, NetWitness, BlackBerry, CrowdStrike and more.

The event marks the 25th year for Black Hat USA. Chris Krebs, the first director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), will give the opening keynote.

DNSFilter announced its acquisition of Guardian, a firewall and VPN technology platform. The acquisition allows DNSFilter to provide a secure web gateway (SWG) that protects user information and secures organizations against web-based threats.

More than 2,500 MSPs globally use DNSFilter’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered DNS threat protection and content filtering.

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