President & Co-Founder
Mike Leffer
Mike co-founded Cantina and runs the show. Ask him how a network of elite, independent researchers plugs into your security program without the big-firm price tag or the big-firm queue.
Book time with MikeBlack Hat USA 2026 / AI Zone / Booth 5003
Meet Cantina at Black Hat USA 2026
Catch our live build session and meet the people building Cantina at Booth 5003 in the AI Zone.
- Business Hall
- August 4–6, 2026
- Location
- Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas
- Find Cantina
- AI Zone / Booth 5003
Meet Cantina at Black Hat
Request a meeting
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Meet Cantina
Security that fixes what it finds
Find us in the AI Zone at Booth 5003 for a live demo, expert agentic security Q&A, and stellar swag.
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Get a live, personalized demo of Cantina in action
See how Cantina carries security work from investigation through remediation and verified closure.
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Pick the brains of our product experts and engineers
Bring a difficult problem from your own stack and work through it with the people building Cantina.
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See a security agent built live
Watch Cantina connect a new security API, give an agent a useful job, and work through the production details in real time.
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Walk away with an agentic security org chart that reports to you
See how tools, context, isolation, memory, and orchestration fit together in a production agent system.
Live presentation
Thursday, August 6 / 11:25 AM / Startup City Theatre
Build your own agentic security solution
Hosted by Mike Bartlett, Head of Product
Everyone is building AI agents. Day one is easy: write a prompt, call an LLM, and you have an agent. The hard part starts on day two.
In this session we will build a real security agent live from scratch, connect it to a security API we have never integrated before, and give it a useful job in minutes. Along the way we will uncover the problems every production agent platform has to solve: authentication, integrations, container execution, tool isolation, model selection, context management, memory, orchestration, and safe execution.
By the end of the talk, you will know how to build your own security agents and why the surrounding platform matters far more than the prompt.
Run of show
Live
Startup City Theatre
11:25 AM
Thursday, August 6
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Connect the security API
ReadyAuthentication and tool contract established
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Scope the execution environment
ReadyPermissions and isolation boundaries applied
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Give the agent a real job
LiveContext assembled and attack path under test
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Validate the outcome
NextEvidence, action, and verification returned
The crew
The crew at Booth 5003
Skip the sales pitch. These are the people who actually do the work. Grab time with any of them.
Staff Security Engineer
Jimmy Vo
Jimmy lives in the details, from threat modeling to breaking things that were never meant to break. Bring a thorny problem from your own stack and he will walk you through how he would attack it.
Book time with Jimmy
Head of Product
Mike Bartlett
Mike leads product at Cantina and is giving the live build session at the Startup City Theatre. Catch him after the talk to get into how to build your own security agents.
Book time with Mike
August 4–6 / AI Zone / Booth 5003
Come find us at Booth 5003
Request a meeting with the Cantina team in the AI Zone at Black Hat USA 2026.