Keepit’s presence at Black Hat USA 2025 underscores a significant shift in how enterprises think about resilience in the digital realm. As the only cloud-native, vendor-independent SaaS data protection provider, Keepit is pushing beyond the usual cybersecurity narratives. Their agenda isn’t just about technology—it’s about trust, sovereignty over business-critical data, and the threats that still flourish in the shadows: insider access, espionage, and the illusion of immutability. With a slate of exclusive events, strategic sessions, and thought-provoking interviews, Keepit is drawing attention to the blind spots in today’s SaaS-first organizations, and how independence from production infrastructure is essential for resilience.
A highlight of Keepit’s involvement is an exclusive VIP dinner on August 5, co-hosted with CyberRisk Alliance. This intimate gathering is more than just networking — it’s a deep dive into the dark art of modern corporate espionage. Attendees will be treated to a keynote by Glenn Corn, a retired CIA operations officer whose firsthand experiences lay bare how adversaries target the weakest link in security: people. His insights cut through the abstraction of “insider threat” and expose how subtle manipulation, targeted recruitment, and trust exploitation have evolved — but remain devastatingly effective. His talk sets the stage for a grounded, scenario-based conversation led by Keepit CISO Kim Larsen, whose experience in Danish intelligence and NATO brings a European intelligence rigor to corporate cyber defense. Larsen’s practical advice and unflinching analysis reinforce the message that espionage is not a relic of the Cold War — it’s an everyday risk in the age of hyperconnected cloud platforms and loosely monitored SaaS integrations.
The tone shifts the following day during Keepit’s August 6 session in Business Hall Theater D. Here, Bart Binder, Keepit’s Red Team Manager, dissects a chilling scenario: a breach that targets cloud backups, seeking to encrypt or erase them to ensure total compromise. This real-world attack narrative will resonate with any team that believes immutability alone is enough. Binder’s insights are paired with strategic foresight from Niels van Ingen, who reframes resilience not as a product, but a philosophy — one that demands backup systems be isolated, independently governed, and immune to the blast radius of the production environment. It’s a wake-up call for any business still assuming their SaaS vendor has their back in a crisis.
Later that day, van Ingen continues the momentum in a recorded interview at the Dark Reading Newsroom, challenging the widespread overreliance on built-in SaaS backup tools and shared-responsibility models. He argues that in a world where platform outages and misconfiguration disasters are not just possible but probable, businesses must own their recovery destinies. Keepit’s platform, he suggests, doesn’t just protect data — it decouples recovery from dependency, ensuring organizations aren’t left powerless when their cloud vendor stumbles or fails.
On August 7, van Ingen returns to the spotlight with a talk that zooms out: “Keeping your cloud(s) secure,” a session exploring the expanding and increasingly entangled threat landscape of hybrid and multi-cloud environments. He speaks to a reality that many enterprises now inhabit — one in which data sprawls across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and dozens of SaaS applications, all with different controls, policies, and blind spots. His message is pragmatic and unflinching: attackers don’t care who owns your infrastructure, only how they can exploit it. Misconfigurations, poor visibility, and insecure third-party integrations are the new open doors. Defense, he insists, must be unified but not monolithic — flexible enough to cover diverse platforms, yet strict enough to enforce control.
Throughout the week, Keepit’s leadership team will be on-site at Black Hat, not to pitch promises but to offer substance. Their presence signals a quiet confidence, earned through a commitment to architectural simplicity, policy transparency, and the radical notion that independence from infrastructure is not a luxury — it’s a requirement. In a sea of hype-driven marketing and buzzword-heavy platforms, Keepit’s message is refreshingly direct: real resilience starts with not being beholden to the systems you’re trying to recover from. That, perhaps more than any single product feature, is what security teams need to hear this year.
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