Yan Shoshitaishvili - Vulnerability Research in the Agentic Age
Paraphrased citation dossier for Yan Shoshitaishvili's Black Hat USA 2026 keynote on vulnerability research as AI agents change tooling, scale and methodology.
Built from the public YouTube caption track and cross-checked against Black Hat's official keynote announcement.
Transcribed and published by Longscribe. Editorial policy.
The keynote places vulnerability research inside the current shift toward agentic systems. Rather than presenting AI as magic automation, the talk emphasizes the scientific and practical machinery that makes vulnerability discovery work. Source · 00:29
Key facts
- Official keynote
- Black Hat announced Yan Shoshitaishvili as the Thursday, August 6, 2026 keynote speaker for Vulnerability Research in the Agentic Age. Source · 00:29
- Methodology frame
- The talk links vulnerability research progress to tools, targets, experiments and repeatable workflows. Source · 04:30
Research workflows
The dossier captures the talk as a workflow story: better vulnerability research comes from disciplined tooling and from understanding what the target system makes possible.
Agentic age
The agentic-AI framing matters because autonomous systems can change the economics of exploration, triage and exploitation. The page keeps that claim tied to the talk's captioned material and official Black Hat context.
Key timestamped claims
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00:29The keynote is introduced as a Black Hat main-stage talk on vulnerability research in the agentic age.
04:10Shoshitaishvili uses his own research path to explain why vulnerability research depends on tooling, targets and reproducible methodology.
24:00The talk turns to how increasingly capable agents may reshape vulnerability discovery and researcher workflows.
Source & methodology
Source artifact docs/ops/curated-transcript-sources/blackhat-usa-2026-yan-shoshitaishvili-agentic-age.json was generated from the English original YouTube caption track for the public Black Hat keynote recording. Coverage manifest blackhat-usa-2026-yan-shoshitaishvili-agentic-age.coverage.json accounts for captured source segments.
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