8 Takeaways: Black Hat Europe's Closing 'Locknote' Panel

8 Takeaways: Black Hat Europe's Closing 'Locknote' Panel

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Breach Notification , Governance

Fuzzing, Transparency, Bug Reporting, Security Basics and More Highlighted Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • December 8, 2019     Locknote panel from left: Jeff Moss, Leigh-Anne Galloway, Daniel Cuthbert, Marina Krotofil

As in years past, this year's Black Hat Europe in London ended with a "locknote" panel, designed to bookend the conference's opening keynote with takeaways at the close of the event.


On Thursday, the final day of this year's annual cybersecurity conference, Black Hat founder and organizer Jeff Moss (@thedarktangent) took to the stage, joined by several member of the Black Hat Review Board. The board reviews and selects all of the conference briefings. Organizers said they received more submissions for the year's even than ever before, and pointed to strong showings from academia as well as vendors in the final mix of briefings they selected.


Here are some of the locknote panelists' top takeaways from this year's conference.


Fuzzing is Hot


So, from a research standpoint, what's popular this year? "We saw plenty of submissions on fuzzing and AI," said Leigh-Anne Galloway (@L_AGalloway), a security researcher at Positive Technologies who not only joined Moss for the locknote panel but herself presented at this year's conference on vulnerabilities in contactless payment systems that use near-field communications.


Two briefings on fuzzing made the ..

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