Silicon Valley

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the expansion of our technical ecosystems poses both unprecedented opportunities and considerable challenges with the adoption of AI. 

This session invites thought leaders and practitioners to explore the evolving role of Artificial Intelligence in business processes and security frameworks. As AI technology accelerates, understanding its potential and limitations is paramount for security professionals.

During this conversation, we will delve into three key areas: 

• Understanding Current AI Business Processes: Explore how AI is being integrated into business operations and its impact on security strategies.
• Iterating the use of AI Across the Entire Organization: Examine how AI initiatives can be scaled and iterated across different teams, from development to operations, ensuring alignment with security goals.
• Mapping Actionable AI and Business Goals to Security Initiatives: Learn how to create clear, actionable objectives that bridge AI innovation with vital security priorities.

Join us for an insightful discussion on how to harness AI’s potential while navigating the unique challenges it presents to security professionals.

Join Umaimah Khan, CEO and Co Founder of Opal Security, as she explores why identity security is the most critical area of cybersecurity today and how organizations can modernize their approach. We’ll examine the limitations of current identity infrastructure, the risks of fragmented access management, and the paradigm shift towards intelligent, automated identity governance to enable secure growth and innovation.

As organizations rapidly adopt generative AI and emerging technologies, security leaders face a critical challenge: enabling innovation while managing risk. Traditional approaches to security and risk management are being tested by AI’s unique characteristics and far-reaching business impact.

The solution may not lie in complex new organizational structures like “fusion centers,” but rather in a more fundamental reimagining of how we approach security governance. Enter the Five Cs framework – a pragmatic approach that bridges the gap between innovation and security without creating additional organizational complexity.

Join LevelBlue, a global leader in security services, as we share field insights from helping organizations navigate AI adoption. Learn how the Five Cs framework can help you.

The takedown of LockBit, the dominant ransomware operator of the past few years, was a seismic event in the cybercriminal landscape. Yet, ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) is far from defeated. In the last 12 months, we’ve witnessed new ransomware families rise and fall, threat actors adapt, and an evolution in the tactics used to breach, encrypt, and extort organizations.

As one of the world’s leading cybersecurity incident response teams, Secureworks has responded to hundreds of ransomware incidents, giving us a front-row seat to these changes. In this keynote, we’ll unpack how the ransomware ecosystem has reorganized post-LockBit, analyze emerging attack techniques, and share key lessons organizations must adopt to stay ahead.

Key Topics:

• Building and managing effective incident response plans.
• Detecting and mitigating cyber and physical threats.
• Using real-time data and intelligence for decision-making.

Why It Matters:
Security managers often handle tactical responses. Understanding effective response strategies ensures timely containment and resolution of incidents.

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, securing your cloud environment isn’t just important—it’s mission-critical. Join us for an eye-opening session where we dive into the top three cloud security priorities from a CIO’s perspective: uncovering misconfigurations, detecting critical vulnerabilities (CVEs), and enforcing robust identity governance. When left unchecked, this toxic trilogy creates security gaps that cybercriminals love to exploit. But don’t worry—we’re not just here to talk theory. You’ll walk away with a practical scorecard to assess your own cloud security posture and take actionable steps toward fortifying your defenses.

As cloud adoption accelerates, so does the complexity and scale of cyber threats targeting cloud environments. From sophisticated adversaries exploiting misconfigurations to attacks leveraging AI-powered tools, the stakes have never been higher. This session dives into the evolving threat landscape in the cloud and outlines how organizations can stay ahead of attackers by combining proactive risk management with real-time breach prevention.

Join CrowdStrike as we explore:
– Key trends driving the surge in cloud-based attacks
– Real-world case studies of cloud breaches and lessons learned
– The role of advanced tools, such as AI-driven detection and adversary-first intelligence, in hardening cloud environments
– Best practices for aligning proactive risk reduction with real-time security to protect cloud workloads without sacrificing agility

Key Topics:

• Ransomware, phishing, and advanced persistent threats (APTs).
• Optimizing operations and improving security through Orchestration and Automation.
• Understanding the impact of AI and IoT on security vulnerabilities.
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Why It Matters:
Staying informed about the latest threats helps leaders anticipate and prepare for risks that can disrupt operations.

All security roads lead back to a central concern: identity. The problem? Identity isn’t centralized. Human and non-human identities are proliferating at breakneck speed in places where they can be hard to detect, let alone govern. In this session, we’ll discuss how to uncover unknowns, unify identity siloes, and establish standardized governance protocols across all identities.

Join us for a discussion on Agentic AI and its role in hyperautomation. Learn about the differences between Agentic and Generative AI, as well as the benefits and potential risks of AI in cybersecurity. Discover best practices and strategies for implementing AI in the SOC, including threat detection, human-in-the-loop systems, and ensuring data privacy. Explore the strengths and weaknesses of AI and automation. We’ll provide actionable tips for getting started with AI in your SOC and discuss some challenges and things to consider in your journey.

This presentation examines how artificial intelligence’s exponential growth in capability – driven by expanding neural networks, refined training methodologies, and unprecedented access to data – is transforming cybersecurity. Drawing from Check Point’s experience, we’ll explore how these same factors – more comprehensive threat data, improved training techniques, and increasingly sophisticated models – are revolutionizing threat detection and response. As AI systems process more security telemetry and learn from wider attack patterns, their defensive capabilities grow proportionally. Attendees will gain crucial insights into this accelerating technological shift, understanding why staying informed about AI advancements is no longer optional but essential for modern cybersecurity practitioners.

Key Topics:

• Evaluating and selecting security technologies that align with organizational goals.
• Best practices for integrating new tools into existing security infrastructures.
• Orchestrating technology solutions to maximize their effectiveness and return on investment.

Why It Matters:
Choosing, using, and integrating the right technologies is vital for building a robust cybersecurity infrastructure, and Effective technology management optimizes security investments and enhances overall protection against evolving threats.

In today’s rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape, with the increasing role of AI in weaponization of threat vectors, it is paramount for organizations to shift from reactive, breach-focused cybersecurity to a proactive, strategic investment strategy, underpinned by data-driven cyber risk quantification.
During our session, we will share how observations from Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) and emerging threats across non-traditional infrastructure such as mobility and IoT can be applied to provide precise, quantifiable data on the cost of cyber threats, helping you prioritize resources and protect your most critical assets to safeguard your business.
We will explore the challenges organizations face today in effectively managing cyber risk and offer an innovative perspective on how organizations can shift their approach to achieving scalable, quantified, data-driven, and results-oriented decision-making to materially improve their cybersecurity ROI and posture.
As a Cybersecurity stakeholder, you’ll gain practical insights to enhance your security posture and make informed decisions that safeguard your infrastructure. Don’t miss the chance to improve your cybersecurity approach and protect your bottom line.