The first-of-its-kind documentary on cyberwar debuted at Black Hat USA 2026 before an audience of CISOs, national security leaders and defenders—the same community whose stories it tells.
HOBOKEN, N.J., Oct. 13, 2026/PRNewswire/ — Semperis, the identity-driven cyber resilience and crisis response company, today announced that it has added new cities to the world screening tour of Midnight in the War Room. The first feature-length documentary on cyber war, which includes voices from inside the cybersecurity community, debuted August 5 at Black Hat, the cybersecurity industry’s most established and in-depth security event series.
The global screening roadshow of Midnight in the War Room is sponsored by Cohesity, the leader in AI-powered data security, which is helping to bring the film and its message about cyber resilience to defenders and cybersecurity professionals worldwide.
New stops in Melbourne, Australia and Austin, Texas bring the film to audiences at two major industry gatherings. The Melbourne screening will be held during CyberCon, Australia’s largest cybersecurity conference, where former CISA Director Jen Easterly will deliver a keynote. Easterly, who is featured in the film, will also deliver opening remarks to film attendees. The screening is open to all conference attendees and takes place Wednesday, October 14, 6:45 pm in the Plenary Theater, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre.
The Austin screening will take place during CyberMarketingCon, the leading conference for cybersecurity industry go-to-market leaders, on Tuesday, November 17, 7:00 pm, at the Marriott Downtown in Austin. To request a seat, visit Midnight in the War Room | Austin.
“Defeating the malicious cyberattacks that threaten our way of life will take more than technology. It will take the creativity and curiosity of the human mind,” says Easterly. “Those qualities empower defenders to outthink and outmaneuver adversaries, and it’s an honor to be part of Midnight in the War Room to advance that mission.”
Upcoming screenings will take place in the following cities:
Melbourne, Australia – October 14
Singapore – October 14
New York City – October 15
Nashville, TN – October 15
Toronto – October 20
Paris – October 20
Detroit – October 21
Mexico City – October 22
Philadelphia – October 27
Mumbai, India – October 29
Vancouver, BC – October 28
São Paulo – November 4
Dublin – November 5
Irvine, CA – November 12
Austin, TX – November 17
Screenings have already taken place in: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Miami, Minneapolis, Mountain View, Munich, Scottsdale, St. Louis, Sydney, Washington and Zurich.
“After watching the Midnight in the War Room premiere at Black Hat this year, I knew we had to bring this film to CyberMarketingCon. It’s marketing at its most magnetic: a gripping story, beautifully told, with the production quality to match,” said Gianna Whitver, CEO and Co-Founder, Cybersecurity Marketing Society. “It’s one of the first cybersecurity productions I’ve seen that feels right at home on Netflix, Hulu, or the big screen at AMC. We can’t wait to bring the film’s energy to CyberMarketingCon attendees and the Austin cybersecurity community.”
Preregistration is required to attend screenings. To attend a screening, visit: Midnight in the War Room Events.
Produced by Semperis Studios and filmed across North America and Europe, the documentary draws on more than 50 interviews and over 100 hours of conversations with CISOs, former hackers, journalists, and national security leaders. Featured contributors include Chris Inglis, the first U.S. National Cyber Director; General (Ret.) David Petraeus, former CIA Director; Jen Easterly, former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director; Marcus Hutchins, the WannaCry hero; and Tim Brown, former CISO of SolarWinds.
“We made this film because the people who defend the world’s critical systems have never had their story told on their own terms,” said Bill Keeler, Co-Director of the film. “Watching it land with a room full of defenders was the whole point. What we heard at the world premiere tells us this conversation is only beginning.”
Semperis is the first cybersecurity company to produce a full-length feature film on cyber war, spotlighting the defenders who safeguard the infrastructure society depends on: water and power systems, food supply chains, healthcare networks, and financial institutions targeted by nation states and ransomware gangs.
The Midnight in the War Room world screening roadshow wouldn’t be possible without the film’s many Action Partners such as Black Hat, Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS), Cyber Future Foundation and Hack The Box. Other Action Partners include:
- Digital Defense Alliance Singapore (DDAS)
- Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)
- InfraGard
- ISC2
- Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
- Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
- Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC)
- Michigan Council of Women in Technology (MCWT)
- Oil and Natural Gas Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ONE-ISAC)
- Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance (ACTRA)
- Grand Canyon University (GCU) Cyber Center of Excellence
About Semperis
Semperis is the identity-driven cyber resilience and crisis management company trusted by the world’s largest enterprises and government agencies to protect critical identity systems. Purpose-built for multi-cloud and hybrid identity environments—including Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, and Ping Identity—Semperis helps organizations prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from identity-based cyberattacks.
Modern cyberattacks are won or lost at the identity layer, where failures now escalate into full-scale business crises. Semperis’ AI-powered platform unifies identity lifecycle defense and crisis management—hardening identity infrastructure, detecting and containing active threats, enabling rapid, trusted recovery, and supporting secure, out-of-band coordination when core systems are disrupted—all reinforced by a world-class identity forensics and incident response team.
As part of its mission to help organizations achieve true cyber resilience, Semperis supports the broader cyber community through the award-winning Hybrid Identity Protection (HIP) Conference and Podcast and free identity security tools including Purple Knight and Forest Druid. More than 1,200 organizations—including over 25% of the 100 largest U.S. companies—rely on Semperis. The company is privately held, headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, and serves customers in more than 40 countries.
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