Dawnguard at Black Hat USA 2026
Dawnguard is exhibiting at Black Hat USA 2026 at booth 6005, with a Startup City session from CTO and co-founder Kim van Lavieren on why architecture is the control that decides whether an AI-era breach spreads or stops.
Black Hat USA is where the security industry gathers to see what's actually changing, not what's being sold. This year it runs August 1-6 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. You'll find the Dawnguard team on the Business Hall floor at booth 6005 across both exhibiting days, Wednesday August 5 and Thursday August 6.
We're bringing a specific argument to the show. AI has changed how software gets built and how fast attackers find a way in. Detection that starts after deployment is always a step behind that speed. The teams staying ahead are the ones treating architecture as a security control, closing off blast radius and building defense-in-depth into the design before a single line of code ships. That's the case Kim is making on stage.
Stop by booth 6005 to see how Dawnguard builds security into cloud architecture from day zero, or to talk through where architectural risk is hiding in your own environment.
For a demo or to book a meeting with the team, contact info@dawnguard.ai.
Kim van Lavieren at Startup City
Architectural Security Is the Key to Defense in the AI-Era
- Kim van Lavieren, CTO and co-founder, Dawnguard
- Thursday, August 6, 10:50-11:10am, Startup City Stage
- 20-minute Startup City sponsored session.
- Tracks: AI, ML & Data Science; Application Security.
AI is changing the game of cybersecurity. Attackers move faster, exploits surface sooner, and teams are more overwhelmed than ever. Betting that you'll never get breached isn't a strategy, it's a hope.
This session makes the case for architectural security as the way to keep pace with attackers. When security is a property of the architecture, you can contain blast radius and execute defense-in-depth by design, and both of those are now non-negotiable. Get ready for the true shift-left.
About Dawnguard
Most cyberattacks don't begin with a misconfiguration. They exploit architectural weaknesses created long before deployment, which is why detection tools that switch on after infrastructure ships are always chasing the problem.
Dawnguard is an AI-native cloud security architecture automation platform. It helps organizations discover, design, and deploy secure cloud infrastructure by building security into the architecture itself instead of bolting it on afterward. Across the full lifecycle, from day zero to day 10,000, security becomes a property of the design rather than a firefight after the fact. That's the category we're building: Security Architecture Automation.
- ISO 27001 certified.
- SOC 2 Type II underway.
- Live on AWS and Azure.
- 13 design partners across the Netherlands and the EU.
Security starts with design.
