James Holland
James is a technology enthusiast and cybersecurity professional based in the West Midlands. He’s a CISSP-certified specialist with a career in IT and information security that started in 2003, having tackled everything from design and architecture to support and technical pre-sales. He is currently part of the Technology Innovation team at Palo Alto Networks, where he focuses on building the future of security operations. His recent work includes leading the security infrastructure for the world-renowned Black Hat conferences, evolving the use of generative AI in cybersecurity for projects related to purple teaming and detection engineering, and he’s a strong advocate for automation. When not immersed in his day job, he enjoys public speaking and has presented at many events. You’ll also find him running, hiking, sometimes snowboarding, and occasionally working on his guitar skills. And yes, he does STILL own too many t-shirts.
Technology Innovation @ Palo Alto Networks
The Stack that Secures the Stack: A Deep Dive into Automating Black Hat's Next Gen SOC
Session Type: Talk
Behind every major conference is a complex, often unseen, technology stack. For a security-focused event like Black Hat, this stack itself is a critical target, requiring a resilient, scalable, and automated security posture. In this talk, we’ll pull back the curtain on the operational and security infrastructure of the Black Hat conferences. We will explore the journey from a collection of ad-hoc systems to a globally consistent, single-config architecture that empowers us to manage operations with unprecedented efficiency. This is a story of how we built a stack that not only supports the event, but actively secures it, demonstrating how a strategic approach to automation and platform consolidation can revolutionise operations.
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