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)InfraGardISC2Information 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.

Learn more: semperis.com
Follow us: Blog / LinkedIn / X / Facebook / YouTube

Media Contact:
Bill Keeler
Semperis
Senior Director, PR & Comms
billk@semperis.com

View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/semperis-adds-new-cities-to-the-midnight-in-the-war-room-world-screening-tour-302906755.html

SOURCE Semperis

BERTHOUD, Colo., Oct. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ursa Major today announced the promotion of Jason Meredith to President of Ursa Major. In his new role, Meredith will lead business execution across Ursa Major with responsibility for the company’s full profit and loss.

“Jason has the experience and leadership to bring this next phase of Ursa Major to life,” said Chris Spagnoletti, CEO of Ursa Major. “He understands our technology, our customers and what it takes to execute at scale. As President, he will bring that experience across the entire business and help ensure we continue delivering for our customers as Ursa Major grows.”

Meredith most recently served as President of Solid Missile Systems, where he led program execution and engineering across Ursa Major’s growing solid rocket motor portfolio. His promotion comes as Ursa Major continues to scale production across its long-range and hypersonics missiles, solid rocket motors, and space mobility businesses and prepares to become a publicly traded company.

“I’m excited to take on this role at an important point in Ursa Major’s growth,” said Meredith. “We have strong technology, growing demand and a manufacturing approach built to scale. My focus will be on bringing those pieces together across the business so we can move faster, increase production and deliver the capabilities our warfighters need to meet the mission.”

Meredith brings more than two decades of aerospace, defense and solid propulsion experience, with senior engineering, program and business leadership roles at ATK, Orbital ATK, Northrop Grumman, and Pratt & Whitney. He joined Ursa Major in 2026 to lead its Solid Missile Systems business and the continued expansion of the company’s solid rocket motor capabilities.

About Ursa Major

Ursa Major is an advanced weapons and space systems company delivering flight-proven capabilities for hypersonics, solid rocket motors, and space mobility. Headquartered in Berthoud, Colorado, with additive manufacturing operations in Youngstown, Ohio, Ursa Major leverages advanced production techniques and flexible architectures to build systems for all domains: land, air, sea, and space. The company is revitalizing the defense industrial base for the U.S. and its allies, flying faster to accelerate delivery of critical capabilities where speed and adaptability matter most. For more information, visit www.ursamajor.com. 

View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ursa-major-appoints-jason-meredith-as-president-302906813.html

SOURCE Ursa Major

The technology solution combines digital workflows and critical property data to support financial advisors engaged in 1031 DST exchange transactions from start to finish. The platform also centralizes over 40 DST offerings from leading alternative asset managers and embeds qualified intermediary services from national 1031 exchange firms.

NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SUBSCRIBE, a global fintech company providing the leading enterprise operating system for alternative investments, today announced the launch of their 1031 DST Transaction Platform. The digital solution provides over 1200 wealth management firms and their 55,000 financial advisors access to more than 40 DST offerings from leading alternative asset managers including Blackstone, Bluerock, Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management, Capital Square, Cottonwood, ExchangeRight, Hines, Inland, Invesco, Nuveen, Palladius, Passco, Starwood, and many others. As part of the initiative, the company has also formed strategic relationships with national 1031 exchange firms, such as Accruit, digitally embedding qualified intermediary (QI) services as part of the workflow within SUBSCRIBE.

The technology-enabled 1031 exchange workflow and property data solution is designed to allow financial advisors and their clients to initiate, manage, and track an exchange transaction from start to finish. The solution seeks to close the information gap that often exists between financial advisors and their clients by capturing exchanger, relinquished property, and other critical information to help automate the multistage, paperwork-heavy process on a single platform and do so transparently for all stakeholders. The embedded QIs will provide financial advisors with educational resources and access to experienced exchange professionals, while the broad menu of DSTs centralizes access to high-quality investment options.

“SUBSCRIBE successfully innovated onboarding for private market funds in a way that allowed all the stakeholders involved in a fund transaction to benefit and efficiently scale,” said Rafay Farooqui, Founder & CEO at SUBSCIRBE. “With the launch of our 1031 Exchange Transaction Platform, we seek to replicate that success for DST transactions and bring them online from their current state of messy email threads, paper forms, and fragmented workflows.”

Simplified Workflows for DST Sponsors
SUBSCRIBE’s 1031 DST Transaction Platform is also positioned to make offerings easily accessible, and transaction tracking simpler for alternative asset managers that have designed DST offerings to provide financial advisors and their clients with access to institutional‑quality real estate across senior housing, student housing, multifamily, and industrial property. Bringing sponsors, QIs, and financial advisors together on a single platform to consolidate and simplify the process helps clients preserve capital, defer taxes, and execute reinvestment strategies more efficiently. This creates greater confidence in DSTs as tax-deferral strategies, strengthens long-term client relationships, and delivers a more seamless experience for all stakeholders.

“For clients of wealth managers seeking to preserve equity and reposition capital, 1031 DSTs offer an effective tool,” said Steve Holtkamp, President at Accruit. “SUBSCRIBE brings the QI directly into the platform, providing a modern and intuitive experience that guides financial advisors and their clients through the exchange process while creating a more seamless, connected experience from start to finish.”

Powerful Tax Management Solution
The Baby Boomer generation has approximately $90 trillion in net worth, with an estimated $4 trillion concentrated in investment properties and second homes. DSTs are increasingly being used by financial advisors as a starting point to form a long-term wealth strategy, but they also act as mechanisms for execution certainty as exchangers face stringent 45-day and 180-day deadlines to complete transactions. A DST can serve as a safety net, providing the certainty of a fully structured, professionally managed property over the uncertainty of chasing a direct deal in that same time-period. DSTs can also address key investment planning objectives, deferral of capital gains taxes, risk management, asset diversification, and strategic portfolio repositioning by helping real estate investors transition away from the challenges of active real property management. Thus, many leading alternative asset managers have launched 1031 tax-advantaged wealth platforms, and some offer a potential future exit through a Section 721 UPREIT transaction, in which DST holders can contribute their interests, tax deferred, into a REIT in exchange for partnership units.

“Our Exchange platform was designed around the needs of wealth managers who require flexibility, choice, and efficiency when evaluating 1031 DST opportunities on behalf of their clients,” said Nitin Chexal, CEO of Palladius Capital Management. “Our longstanding relationship with SUBSCRIBE made this a natural extension of our partnership. Its new 1031 DST Transaction Platform helps modernize and streamline the subscription process, making it easier for advisors and their clients to access Exchange offerings.”

Through 2Q 2026, DST sponsors had already raised $3.75 billion, up nearly 24% from the same period in 2025, with $3.9 billion in available open inventory across 100 DST offerings. Mountain Dell, a consulting and research firm, projects $10 billion in total DST sales by year-end, up nearly 55% from 2025.

About SUBSCRIBE
SUBSCRIBE is a fintech company digitally transforming the landscape of alternative investments for alternative asset managers, institutional investors, wealth managers, law firms, and fund administrators. Our platform technology modernizes the archaic infrastructure of private fund investments by delivering a central operating system — catering to every role within the investment process empowering them to connect any fund, any investor, anywhere in the world on a single platform. SUBSCRIBE supports over $6 trillion in private market assets and is the trusted technology partner to thousands of firms that rely on our end-to-end enterprise solution to scale their private market investment programs and manage investment processes across pre-trade, trade, and post-trade fund workflows. For additional information, visit www.subscribeplatform.com or follow the company on LinkedIn and X (@esubdocs).

For media inquiries, please contact:
SUBSCRIBE
info@subscribeplatform.com

View original content:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/subscribe-launches-1031-dst-exchange-transaction-platform-302907310.html

SOURCE SUBSCRIBE