SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Black Hat, the world's leading provider of information security events, announces Briefings highlights for its upcoming Black Hat Asia program. The event, returning to Singapore this year, will offer its community a robust schedule complete with timely research Briefings, hands-on Trainings, a Business Hall featuring leading solution providers and additional specialized programs to address the needs of the wider information security community, from staff and managers to those serving at an executive level.



Black Hat Asia will take place March 20 – March 23, 2018 at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. For more information and to save S$200 on registration prices, please visit: blackhat.com/asia-18/registration.html

Highlights from the Black Hat Asia 2018 program so far include:

To see the current 2018 program lineup and to view presentation abstracts, visit: blackhat.com/asia-18/briefings.html

Classroom-Style Courses - Black Hat Trainings

Prior to the Briefings, Black Hat Asia will offer two days of deeply technical, hands-on Training courses led by the some of the brightest minds in the industry. This year’s Trainings will span topics covering infrastructure hacking, machine learning, car hacking, malware analysis and more. New for 2018, Black Hat will offer the popular “Advanced Web Attacks and Exploitation” four-day training course led by Offensive Security. For information on the lineup and to save S$300 on the course(s) of your choice by March 16, please visit: blackhat.com/asia-18/training/schedule/index.html

Live Demos - Black Hat Arsenal: Tools to be announced soon!

Black Hat Arsenal will return to Singapore with its highly popular tool and demo area, showcasing the hottest developments from the open-source community. For more information on Arsenal and to see which tools will be selected this year, visit: blackhat.com/asia-18/arsenal-overview.html

Black Hat Asia Sponsors

Top sponsors of Black Hat Asia 2018 include Platinum Sponsors: Qualys, SentinelOne; Gold Sponsors: CrowdStrike, DarkTrace, Malwarebytes, Rapid7, Solida Systems; and Silver: Black Duck Software by Synopsys, Checkmarx, HackerOne, Illumino, Intezer, PhishMe, ServiceNow, VMRay. For more information on sponsorship opportunities and to see the full list of participating companies, visit: blackhat.com/asia-18/event-sponsors.html

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Future Black Hat Dates and Events

Black Hat USA 2018, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 4-9

Las Vegas, Nevada, August 4-9 Black Hat Europe 2018, London, UK, December 3-6

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