{"id":248344,"date":"2026-05-18T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/world-premiere-of-midnight-in-the-war-room-documentary-at-black-hat-vegas\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:00:23","slug":"world-premiere-of-midnight-in-the-war-room-documentary-at-black-hat-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/world-premiere-of-midnight-in-the-war-room-documentary-at-black-hat-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"World Premiere Of &#8220;Midnight In The War Room&#8221; Documentary At Black Hat Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/world-premiere-of-midnight-in-the-war-room-documentary-at-black-hat-vegas\/\">World Premiere Of &#8220;Midnight In The War Room&#8221; Documentary At Black Hat Vegas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/world-premiere-of-midnight-in-the-war-room-documentary-at-black-hat-vegas\/\">https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/world-premiere-of-midnight-in-the-war-room-documentary-at-black-hat-vegas\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 08:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cybersecurityventures.com\">cybersecurityventures.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Black Hat, the cybersecurity industry\u2019s most established and in-depth security event series, and\u00a0Semperis, the identity-driven cyber resilience and crisis management company, announced that the world premiere of the groundbreaking cyberwar documentary\u00a0Midnight in the War Room\u00a0will take place Wed., Aug. 5, 2026, during\u00a0Black Hat USA, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1997, Black Hat has grown from a small gathering of security researchers to the global platform where the cybersecurity community convenes, bringing together practitioners, CISOs, policymakers, academics, and business leaders to confront the world\u2019s most pressing security challenges. That same evolution\u2014from a \u201ctechnical problem\u201d to a board\u2011level and societal issue\u2014is at the heart of Midnight in the War Room, which chronicles the escalating cyber conflict among nation states, criminal groups, and the defenders on the front lines.<\/p>\n<p>The film features leading voices in cybersecurity and national security who have long shaped conversations on Black Hat stages, including Chris Inglis, first U.S. National Cyber Director; Jen Easterly, former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA); Joe Tidy, Cyber Correspondent at the BBC; and John Hammond, cybersecurity educator and influencer.<\/p>\n<p>Additional contributors include General (Ret.) David Petraeus, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Marcus Hutchins, the security researcher who helped stop WannaCry; and Professor Mary Aiken, world-renowned cyber psychologist\u2014alongside more than 50 global experts, defenders, journalists, and reformed hackers. Together, they reflect the same diverse and influential community that has defined Black Hat for nearly three decades.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Midnight in the War Room | New Official Trailer (2026)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1iR2Xla8Mzc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor almost 30 years, Black Hat has been the place where the world\u2019s most respected security voices challenge assumptions and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/world-premiere-of-midnight-in-the-war-room-documentary-at-black-hat-vegas\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Premiere Of &#8220;Midnight In The War Room&#8221; Documentary At Black Hat Vegas https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/world-premiere-of-midnight-in-the-war-room-documentary-at-black-hat-vegas\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/blogphoto8.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-248344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248347,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248344\/revisions\/248347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}