BALD: The Women-Only Drinks at Black Hat

Join us for BALD (Bad Ass Lady Drinks), our annual women-only gathering on the first evening of Black Hat. This exclusive event brings together women leaders across cybersecurity for an evening of great conversations, new connections, and celebration.

This year's event is co-hosted by:
Trish Cagliostro, Chief Revenue Officer, Orchid Security
Tal Kollender, CEO & Founder, Remedio
Mor Bikovsky, Chief Business Officer, Remedio
Rotem Lurie, CEO & Co-Founder, Venice Security

Together, these leaders are helping shape the future of cybersecurity and are excited to bring together an incredible community of women from across the industry.

Please note: This is a women-only event. Registration does not guarantee a confirmed spot. Approved guests will receive the venue address and event details prior to the event.

We look forward to celebrating with you.

Trish Cagliostro
Chief Revenue Officer, Orchid Security

Trish leads Orchid Security's growth strategy, focusing on strategic partnerships and scaling the company's impact across the identity security market. Prior to Orchid, she played a pivotal role at Wiz, helping grow the company from $3 million to $350 million in ARR in just four years. She began her career supporting endpoint security initiatives for the U.S. Department of Defense and has since built deep expertise across product management, sales engineering, and executive leadership, combining technical knowledge with a passion for building high-growth organizations.

Rotem Lurie
CEO & Co-Founder, Venice Security

Rotem Lurie has spent her career at the intersection of identity and security. After serving as an intelligence lieutenant in Unit 8200, she led identity initiatives for Microsoft Defender for Cloud, became the first product hire at Axis Security, helping scale the company through its acquisition by HPE, and later joined YL Ventures.
She founded Venice to reinvent privileged access for hybrid, AI-driven environments. In this session, Rotem will explain why standing privilege is not just a configuration problem, but an architectural one, and how modern organizations can rethink access for the AI era.

Tal Kollender
CEO & Founder, Remedio

Tal Kollender is a cybersecurity entrepreneur with more than twenty years of technical and leadership experience. From her early days as a hacker to serving in elite Israeli Defense Forces cyber units and leading teams at Dell EMC, she has consistently operated at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation.
After bootstrapping Remedio to profitability over six years, she raised a landmark $65 million Series A in 2025 and is now leading the company's vision for "Preemptive Security," helping organizations move from reactive defense to autonomous resilience. Named the 2023 Cybersecurity Women Entrepreneur of the Year, Tal is a passionate advocate for technical excellence and for empowering the next generation of women in cybersecurity.

Mor Bikovsky
Chief Business Officer, Remedio

Mor began her career in an elite Israeli Defense Forces intelligence unit, where she worked on some of the world's most advanced cybersecurity challenges. Today, she leads business development and customer success at Remedio, helping enterprises translate cutting-edge security innovation into measurable business outcomes.
Known for her strategic mindset, technical expertise, and customer-first approach, Mor has built high-performing teams and long-lasting executive relationships throughout her career. She is passionate about helping organizations strengthen their security posture while driving sustainable growth.

Remedio (formerly GYTPOL) is a next-generation Device Security Posture Management platform that enables preemptive cybersecurity by closing configuration-based security gaps before they’re exploited. Going beyond detection, Remedio autonomously hardens baselines, remediates exposure, and enforces continuous compliance safely, at scale, and without disruption, giving organizations real control over device risk.

Venice is resetting the standard for privileged access. We eliminate the risk of standing privileges by providing teams and autonomous agents with frictionless, Just-In-Time access across legacy on-prem and cloud ecosystems. It’s security that adapts to your environment - not the other way around.

Orchid is the identity control plane for applications. It discovers every self-hosted and SaaS app, analyzes their identity controls and critical gaps, and orchestrates the application and identity context back into your IAM systems. No rewrites. No questionnaires. Clear observability and action from one place.

BALD: The Women-Only Drinks at Black Hat

A women-only gathering to celebrate, connect, and raise a glass to the women shaping the future of cybersecurity.

Date & Time: August 5, 2026 | 5:00–7:00 PM

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