I’ve been to several Black Hat conferences (seven in the last two and a half years, alone) to be a threat hunter in the Network Operations Center (NOC), so I didn’t expect to be surprised by much at this year’s Black Hat USA.

Ben Reardon, Lead Researcher Corelight Labs / NOC crew I'm a researcher on the Labs team at Corelight and, for me, working in the Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC) at the USA show in Las Vegas is up there as one of the most interesting and intense activities on the calendar.

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