Black Hat 2025

For Axonius we built the loudest landmark on the floor. A suspended sign ringed in glowing orange light tubes marked the booth from across the hall, an in-booth presentation stage carried a seamless LED wall, and a row of edge-lit demo stations ran live product demos all week. The custom lighting came from our partners at Testa; the LED, audio, and rigging were ours.

It was the single biggest build of our Black Hat week, and it sat on eight hardwired drops we pulled and locked down ourselves.

Across the hall, Sophos went cool where Axonius went warm. Synchronized LED content ran above the booth, anchored by a flown sign of twenty-one of our 2.3-millimeter tiles, and three 32-inch 4K touchscreens turned the counter into hands-on demo space.

Like every booth we touched, it ran on networking we pulled ourselves. At a security conference the public Wi-Fi is hostile by definition, so we wired it.

ThreatLocker wanted a sign you could not miss, so we flew one in the round. Sixty-four of our 2.3-millimeter LED tiles wrapped into a full circular ring above the booth, running the brand's content in a loop over the aisle.

Underneath the ring sat the booth audio the demos needed and five hardwired drops for the floor. The ring was the landmark; the rest was the part that just had to work.

ReliaQuest ran the heaviest setup on our floor. Four 43-inch demo stations lined the booth and a 55-inch screen anchored a closed conference room for private briefings, with custom lighting from Testa setting the mood.

It also pulled the most bandwidth of any booth we ran at the show: a dedicated 50-megabit line across ten drops, enough to keep every station live at once without a hiccup.

OPSWAT ran a clean demo setup: a pair of 43-inch 4K monitors, laptop-driven stations, and full booth audio that carried over the floor noise.

Elastic brought a content load the others did not. We paired an LED kiosk with a sponsored speaking session and a run of lightning talks, feeding nine hardwired drops that made it one of the busiest booths on our network.

Rapid7 took the most real estate of anyone we covered. A two-level booth with a deck up top meant running booth A/V and content on two floors at once: speakers, a presentation mic, and laptop-fed displays keeping a crowd engaged that never really thinned out.

Twenty megabits across five drops kept both levels online for the full run of the show.

Most of what we did at Black Hat never showed up in a photo. Thirty-two booths ran on internet we designed, pulled, and supported: one hundred fifty-two hardwired drops and four hundred twenty-five megabits of dedicated bandwidth, mapped booth by booth weeks before anyone landed in Vegas.

At a show where the public Wi-Fi is treated as a live threat, a hardwired line you control is not a luxury. It is the whole job.