Presented by Rob Larsen, Advisor • Silverfort

Frontier AI has quietly retired a three-decade assumption: that defenders have time to react after an attacker moves. Autonomous models now compress full attack chains into minutes, chaining ordinary misconfigurations at machine speed with no hesitation and no fatigue. Detection becomes forensic instead of preventive. Vulnerability management can't patch fast enough. Periodic access reviews can't review fast enough.

The answer requires a fundamental shift: from preset admin-time access rules and too-reactive detection to controls placed at the moment it matters most: runtime. Every identity, human, machine, or AI agent, must authenticate to act. That moment is the only control point capable of operating at machine speed, intervening before lateral movement begins.

This session gives security leaders the framework to drive that shift — examining why traditional controls collapse against AI-powered adversaries, what runtime enforcement looks like in practice, and how to elevate identity to a genuine, autonomous enforcement point at the center of a modern security operating model.

  Presented by Landra Pierce, Product Strategy Technologist • Veeam

Cyberattacks are no longer a distant threat; they are a reality every IT team must be prepared for. When an attack occurs, your data becomes both the primary target and the key to recovery. Many organizations still rely on backup strategies that are designed for hardware failures or accidental deletions, rather than today’s threats, like ransomware, insider risk, and automated attacks. This disconnect creates vulnerabilities, especially when backups become an overlooked entry point in your security strategy. In this session, we will address these challenges to help you better protect your organization.

This session is ideal for IT professionals who want greater confidence in safeguarding their data and peace of mind. We will examine the most common oversights that leave organizations, including those in government, education, healthcare, and other sectors, exposed to cyberthreats. You’ll discover how teams are advancing beyond basic backup to adopt a cyber-ready approach, including topics like immutability, threat awareness, rapid recovery, and intelligent automation.

Our focus will be practical and grounded in real-world scenarios, and what truly works when pressure is high and time is limited. Because when every minute counts and trust is at stake, data resilience means more than surviving an attack. It’s about protecting what matters most and emerging even stronger.

  Presented by Sajeel Akram, Director of Microsoft Services • C1st Technologies

Cybercriminals increasingly target small and mid-sized businesses because they often lack enterprise-level defenses. This session examines current threat trends and provides practical guidance for protecting identities, endpoints, cloud applications, and sensitive data. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to strengthen security posture, reduce business risk, and prepare for emerging AI-related security challenges.

Key Takeaways:

• Why SMBs are prime targets for cybercriminals.
• How identity attacks, phishing, ransomware, and insider risks impact businesses.
• Security best practices for protecting users, devices, and data.
• The role of automation and AI in modern cybersecurity operations.
• Steps organizations can take immediately to improve resilience and compliance.

Sajeel Akram is Director of Microsoft Services at C1st Technologies and specializes in Microsoft cloud, security, identity, compliance, and AI solutions. Sajeel works with organizations across multiple industries to modernize IT operations, strengthen cybersecurity posture, and safely adopt AI technologies. With extensive experience in Microsoft 365, Azure, security operations, governance, and compliance, Sajeel helps businesses implement practical security strategies that balance protection, productivity, and regulatory requirements.

  Presented by DevRev

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The only enterprise AI platform with Native Shared Memory. Computer reasons across live product, support, and sales data – more efficiently, and more precisely.

  Presented by Matthew Michaels, Account Executive • Torq

Torq surveyed 450 SOC leaders globally to find out what AI is actually doing inside the SOC. The findings challenged some assumptions — and confirmed others.

We’ll dig into insights including:

• Why 97% of security leaders are confident AI can handle triage, but only 35% are using it there
• What’s behind the trust barrier that 92% of leaders say is holding AI back
• What 85% of leaders mean when they say they want a “unified platform”
• Where teams plan to expand AI over the next 12 months — and what’s standing in their way

  Presented by David Pier, Sales Engineer • Horizon3

Most security programs measure effort — not outcomes. Organizations patch thousands of vulnerabilities, deploy dozens of tools, and run annual tabletop exercises… but when an attacker shows up, none of that matters.

What matters is whether they can prove their defenses actually work.

In this talk, Horizon3 shares how leading organizations are using autonomous pentesting to see their environment through the attacker’s eyes — continuously, safely, and at scale. By shifting from assumptions to proof, they’ve learned to:

• Prioritize what’s exploitable. Focus limited resources on the weaknesses that truly put the business at risk that are known to be abused by threat actors.
• Quickly fix what matters. Close the loop from find → fix → verify and reduce your exploitable attack surface.
• Reduce attacker dwell time. Use pentest results to precisely deploy honeyTokens to detect compromise early, and to continuously prove your EDR and SIEM are tuned and working as intended.

Cyber resilience isn’t about being perfect — it’s about getting better over time. And the only perspective that truly matters is the attacker’s.

  Presented by Ashok Naiku, Sr Enterprise Security Architect  • Fastly

The internet is undergoing one of its biggest transformations since the rise of mobile: automated traffic is no longer limited to search engines and simple bots. AI assistants, Large Language Models, and autonomous agents are increasingly discovering, purchasing, and interacting with online services on behalf of people. As the internet begins talking to itself, organizations must rethink how they distinguish beneficial automation from abuse, protect APIs, and define access and trust without blocking innovation. This session explores the evolution of internet automation, emerging security challenges, and how modern approaches to bot management, API security, and responsible AI can help organizations prepare for an increasingly autonomous future.

  Presented by Jennifer Carson, Sr Sales Engineer • Zafran Security

What does it really mean to analyze your vulnerabilities in 2026? Drawing on a real-world workflow, Zafran's West Senior Sales Engineer, Jennifer Carson, will host an interactive session to show why traditional approaches to vulnerability management no longer fit the changing threat landscape.

Making the case for continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) as a discipline, not just a tool.

  Presented by Jared Menninger, Sr Solutions Engineer • DigiCert

Certificate lifetimes are shrinking. Browser requirements are evolving. Machine identities are growing exponentially. At the same time, organizations are beginning to plan for post-quantum cryptography while supporting new AI-driven systems that depend on trusted digital interactions.

These changes are transforming PKI from a traditional security function into the operational trust layer for modern business.

This session provides a practical roadmap for modernizing PKI, improving visibility into machine identities, automating certificate lifecycle management, and building crypto-agility for future cryptographic transitions. Attendees will leave with actionable steps to reduce operational risk today while preparing for post-quantum security and the next generation of digital trust.

  Presented by Greg Anderson, Head of Solutions Engineering • Sprocket Security

Every autonomous pentest vendor now ships agents that run reconnaissance, exploitation, and validation against live environments. Almost none can tell a buyer what those agents are forbidden to do. The AI governance most organizations already hold does not help, because it rests on an assumption that all harm should be avoided. For a penetration testing agent, controlled, authorized harm is the product. A framework built to stop all harm cannot say how to authorize the right harm, in the right proportion, against the right target.

This session reframes the safety question for the people who buy autonomous offensive security rather than build it. It separates controls that merely instruct an agent to behave from controls that make misbehavior structurally impossible, the difference between “probably will not” and “cannot”. Attendees leave with a scorecard they can run against any vendor, including the one presenting, scored on evidence rather than assurances.

  Presented by Anthony Thomas, Enterprise Architect • C1

AI does not need to be alive to create real organizational risk. As employees adopt AI and organizations connect it to data and systems, leaders need to understand what they are trusting and where human accountability must remain. This session explores how to enable useful AI adoption while protecting sensitive information, maintaining oversight, and managing risk.

Key topics:

• Shadow AI: Employees using AI tools without organizational review and entering sensitive information.
• Data exposure: Understanding what information AI can access, retain, and share.
• Unreliable outputs: Preventing inaccurate answers from becoming operational decisions.
• Security threats: AI-enabled impersonation, phishing, and attacks that manipulate AI applications.
• Excessive access: Managing the risks when AI assistants can retrieve confidential documents, send messages, or change systems.
• Practical governance: Establishing approved tools, clear ownership, staff training, human review, and incident response procedures.

Interactive scenario: An employee uploads a confidential document into an AI tool to prepare an executive summary. What should have been in place before that happened—and what happens next?

  Presented by Kory Jessen, Sr Cybersecurity Solutions Architect • iT1 Source

Your organization might be meeting every compliance requirement and spending more on cybersecurity than ever before. But are you actually reducing risk?

Too many security programs focus on checking compliance boxes, renewing tools, and adding new technology without understanding which threats pose the greatest risk to their business. The result? Growing budgets, increasing complexity, and security gaps that may still go unaddressed.

It's time to rethink how we measure risk and where we invest.

Join us as we explore how to move beyond compliance-driven security to measure real business risk, identify the controls that make the greatest impact, and use those insights to guide smarter technology decisions.

Discover how a risk-based approach can help eliminate unnecessary spending, maximize existing investments, and simplify your security strategy without sacrificing protection.

You'll walk away knowing how to measure what matters, prioritize your biggest risks, and make smarter security investments based on evidence, not assumptions.

  Presented by Zach Feingold, Director of AI and Engineering, & Hayden Busic, Data & AI Product Manager • Cerium Networks

AI is helping people work more efficiently, but what does it take to put AI to work where it can make a meaningful difference for your team?

In this session, we’ll take you behind the scenes of three AI projects we’ve taken from planning to live deployment. We’ll explore the business challenge each project tackled, how we built it, and the results it delivered. Along the way, we’ll share lessons from turning those plans into working solutions, why identifying the right business needs is important, and how to encourage user adoption.

You’ll leave this session with a practical look at AI in action and lessons you can apply to your own projects.

  Presented by Mike McIver, Sr Channel Systems Engineer • TrendAI

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Discover the company that empowers you to predict, detect, and respond to AI-enabled threats. At TrendAI, we remove friction and accelerate secure AI adoption so organizations can thrive in the AI age, securely.

  Presented by Nate McQueen, Director, Global Agentic Technologists • SailPoint

In the age of autonomous AI, the most dangerous adversary may already hold the keys. Non-human identities (API keys, service accounts, tokens and agentic AI) have eclipsed phishing as the leading attack vector. AI agents, acquisitive by design, harvest and share credentials without hesitation. A single unsecured identity can unravel an entire enterprise. This session charts a disciplined four-phase path from chaos to control: scope, discover, contextualize, and govern. Learn to prioritize by severity and ownership, close critical breach paths within 90 days, and secure the machine workforce before attackers turn it against you. Leave with a clear, actionable roadmap.

Join us during the lunch hour for Advisory Council Roundtables, an interactive opportunity to connect with council members and peers on a variety of timely industry topics. Move freely between tables, share your perspective, and gather practical insights you can take back to your organization. These conversations are informal, high-value, and designed to spark ideas and connection.

Topics:

• Data Protection in the Age of AI
• Ensuring Security and Compliance with 3rd Parties
• IT Staffing: Onboarding for Success
• Get More Out of Your IT Spending
• Managing Infosec for the Small/Medium Business
• Security Approach in Public Sector
• Security Awareness: What Methods Work to “Secure the Human”
• Zero Trust Strategy: Challenges & Lessons Learned