From Slide Rules to GenAI (Keynote)
Black Hat USA 2025 · Day 1 · Briefings
Chris Inglis — former Deputy Director of the NSA and the nation's first National Cyber Director — argues that cyberspace's persistent insecurity is not a technical problem but a strategic one: society has pursued innovation and market efficiency for fifty years while neglecting resilience. The path forward requires a shared model of collective defense where all stakeholders — individuals, private sector, and government — understand their roles, act like owners, and build systems that are defensible by design. ---
AI review
Chris Inglis is a credible voice and the collective defense framework is coherent, but this is a keynote for conference organizers to check a policy box, not a talk that changes how any practitioner thinks or works. The adversary methodology observation — zero-days are a last resort after doctrine failures and human mistakes — is the one genuinely useful data point, and it's buried in forty-five minutes of slide-rule-to-GenAI arc.