Name: 2025 Threat Report Insights
Start: 2025-10-23T18:00:00Z
End: 2025-10-23T18:00:58.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.5

At N‑able, our mission is to protect businesses against evolving cyberthreats with an end-to-end cyber resilience platform to manage, secure, and recover. Our scalable technology infrastructure includes AI-powered capabilities, market-leading third-party integrations, and the flexibility to employ technologies of choice—to transform workflows and deliver critical security outcomes. Our partner-first approach combines our products with experts, training, and peer-led events that empower our customers to be secure, resilient, and successful. n-able.com 

As organizations grow in size and complexity, their internal networks often become a “black hole” in terms of visibility. To keep these networks secure, this visibility needs to be managed, but time and budget seldom allow IT and cybersecurity professionals to gain actionable insights. 

N‑able’s VP, Product Management, Jim Waggoner and Head of Threat Research, Kevin O'Connor demystify network visibility and provide valuable takeaways you can implement today to mature your cybersecurity posture: 
- Why going beyond Endpoint Security and basic integrations is critical for network integrity  
- How to empower your team with automation and AI to defend against ransomware and other cyberattacks 
- How to simplify cyber-threat visibility to make it accessible for SMBs

How to Use Network Visibility in Your Cyber Security Strategy

In this on-demand session, Jim Waggoner and Lewis Pope break down the latest cyber incidents making headlines and explain what they mean for businesses of all sizes. From ransomware hitting critical services to supply chain compromises in widely used software ecosystems, the discussion highlights both persistent and opportunistic attackers, their evolving tactics, and the growing “as-a-service” criminal marketplace. 

Whether you’re an MSP protecting clients or an IT leader responsible for organizational resilience, this session arms you with actionable steps to strengthen defenses and respond to today’s fast-moving threats.

Inside the Headlines: How Threat Actors Are Exploiting Businesses Like Yours

N-able Head Nerd Lewis Pope explains how Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and IT teams can use cybersecurity tabletop exercises to improve incident response readiness. Learn how to design, facilitate, and get business value from these exercises -plus access free CISA and N-able resources to help you get started.

Watch now to strengthen your team’s response before the next cyber incident hits.

From Plan to Practice: Strengthen Incident Response with Tabletop Exercises

Backups have been the last line of defense against cyberthreats—but today, they’re increasingly becoming the first target. We’ll cover how the cyberthreat landscape is evolving, three primary attack vectors used by modern threat actors, and ways to proactively defend.

Featured speakers:
- Keith Young, Principle Solutions Architect
- Stefan Voss, VP of Product Management

Data Resilience: Best Practices, from Attack Vectors to Remediation

AI-powered MDR makes security teams nimbler and more effective. In this session we’ll unpack ways AI helps highlight what really matters, how modern MDR has become an extension of your team, getting practical support from generative AI, and hear real stories from the field.

Featured speakers:
Robert Johnston
VP, GM Adlumin

Security Operations and Resilience for the Modern Threat Landscape

IT and SecOps are converging in a critical shift for modern endpoint protection. We’ll explore key drivers of this shift, why proactive and continuous endpoint hardening is vital, as well as practical strategies.

Featured Speakers:
- Lewis Pope, Head Nerd, Sec Ops
- Jason Murphy, Head Nerd, IT Ops

Beyond Defense: Accomplishing Endpoint Resilience

Once overlooked by threat actors, small and mid-market businesses today face the same sophisticated attacks as large enterprises. N‑able Chief Technology and Product Officer Mike Adler will explore what it takes to build true end-to-end resilience, outlining a holistic approach spanning the full attack lifecycle: minimizing the attack surface before an incident, reducing operational impact during an attack, and ensuring business continuity after.

Featured Speaker:
- Mike Adler, EVP, Chief Technology and Product Officer, N‑able

The N‑able Vision for End-to-End Cyber Resilience

Cyber resilience is crucial in today’s dynamic threat landscape. Our panel of leading cyber security voices will explore how organizations can rise to the challenge of these rapidly evolving risks. Topics will include the latest threat intelligence, the necessity of end-to-end cyber resilience, and lessons from research findings and real-world insights.

Featured Speakers:
- Francis Odum, Cybersecurity Instructor and Founder of Software Analyst Cybersecurity Research
- Kevin O’Connor, Director of Threat Research, N‑able
- Vinod Paul, President, Managed Services, Align

Security Roundtable: Discussing 5 Key Findings from Our 2025 Threat Report

Discover how the rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape is reshaping the way organizations think about security. In this session, Sarah Armstrong-Smith will explore why building end-to-end cyber resilience has become mission critical—and how businesses can prepare for the challenges ahead.

Featured Speaker:
Sarah Armstrong-Smith, Former Chief Security Advisor for Europe, Microsoft

Preparing for Tomorrow’s Threats Today: The Critical Need for End-to-End Cyber Resilience

The tools that got you here won’t get you where you need to go.

If you’re still relying on legacy backup tools, bloated hardware, and time-draining admin work, you’re not just stuck, you’re falling behind. Our new MSP Growth Playbook reveals how outdated backup strategies are eroding your margins, hindering growth, and leaving your customers exposed.

In this unapologetically practical session, we’ll show you what high-growth MSPs are doing differently and how you can shift your backup from bottleneck to breakthrough.

You’ll learn:
- How to slash admin time by up to 90% and free your techs for higher-value work
- Why cloud-first, image-free backup is transforming margins for thousands of MSPs
- How to repurpose your data center instead of letting it drain profit
- What “ransomware resilience by design” really looks like with immutable, isolated backups
- How Cove’s predictable pricing model puts an end to cloud billing surprises

This isn’t about swapping one vendor for another. It’s about rethinking your entire approach to backup and unlocking time, margin, and flexibility that’s been buried under outdated systems.

Watch now if you’re ready to grow smarter.

Free Download - The MSP Growth Playbook

Rethink Backup or Get Left Behind - The MSP Growth Playbook

Choosing the right backup solution is never just about features - it’s about outcomes. In this live “Hear from a Peer” session, we spoke with Dave Brown, Director of Cloud Services at CSCM IT Solutions, a West Midlands-based MSP delivering IT services across the UK and beyond.

Dave has spent 15 years growing within CSCM, and he’s led their shift to Cove Data Protection. In this candid interview, he’ll share:
• Why CSCM moved away from traditional backup tools
• The operational and commercial impact of switching to Cove
• How Cove helps them deliver faster recovery and reduce support overhead
• Tips for other MSPs considering a change

If you’re still managing legacy backup, juggling multiple tools, or just not convinced by cloud-first options – this is your chance to hear directly from a partner who’s been there.

Watch to see what’s possible with Cove Data Protection.

Hear from a Peer! How CSCM Transformed Backup with Cove

From credential abuse and ransomware to cyber extortion and unpatched vulnerabilities, small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are 3x more likely to be targeted than large enterprises due to resource disparities.

Join us for our 2025 Threat Report webinar and get a data-driven reality check on the evolving threat landscape targeting SMBs, exposing the gaps, trends, and real-world consequences organizations can no longer afford to ignore.

Combining threat intelligence from across the N-able and Adlumin ecosystems, Kevin O’Conner, Director of Threat Research, and Jim Waggoner, VP of Product Management, will share significant takeaways, trends, and vulnerabilities from the new 2025 Threat Report including:

· Top SMB threats in 2025

· Current trends in the SMB threat landscape

· Real-world SMB incidents and takeaways

· Threats that are real vs. just buzz

Whether you're a security practitioner, IT leader, or executive decision-maker, this webinar will deliver the context and clarity you need to assess your risk, strengthen your defenses, and build lasting cyber resilience.

2025 Threat Report Insights

IT teams and MSPs are under constant pressure to detect threats early - but threat hunting often feels like a black box.

In this webinar, Jim Waggoner and Kevin O’Connor guide you through a hands-on threat hunting session, showing how they identify, investigate, and surface hidden threats across cloud and endpoint environments.

You’ll learn:
- What threat hunting actually is (and how it differs from investigation)
- How to uncover threats hiding in normal traffic
- Why correlation across identity and endpoint data matters
- What sets apart a mature, effective threat hunting capability

Whether you’re new to the concept or looking to deepen your technical knowledge, this session will give you the clarity and confidence to act on threats more effectively.

Threat Hunting Explained: See It in Action, Learn How It Works

The Security Operations Center (SOC) is at an AI-fueled inflection point, facing an increasing volume, velocity, and sophistication of threats from cybercriminals armed with AI tools. To combat these challenges, many SOCs have turned to AI and ML tools, but the balance between AI’s potential and its risks remains a pressing issue — especially for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).  

Join us as we share the findings of Adlumin’s inaugural State of the SOC Report and provide a deeper look at how the Adlumin SOC is responding to today's cybersecurity threats. Will Ledesma, Director of MDR and SOC team leader at N-able, and Jim Waggoner, VP of Product Management at N-able, will share key insights from our State of the SOC Report including: 

- Where threats are coming from
- Benefits and challenges of AI  
- How AI has shaped and will shape the future of the SOC 
- Building the SOC of the future

This webinar is a must for any cybersecurity or IT professional. All registrants will receive an exclusive copy of the State of the SOC report.

2025 State of the SOC Report: The Impact of AI in SOCs

Ransomware is evolving faster than ever, outpacing traditional defenses and putting your critical data at risk. Are you confident in your backup and recovery strategy?

Join us for a session designed for tech professionals who want to stop wasting time on failed backups and outdated systems and start focusing on cybersecurity strategies that actually work. Learn how to enhance cyber resilience, prevent costly data loss, and free up IT resources for high-impact projects.

Don’t wait until it’s too late — learn how to fortify your cybersecurity strategy!

Strengthen Cyber Resilience & Stay Ahead of Ransomware - Socitm & N-able

N‑able is bringing together top industry experts for a partner-exclusive fireside chat series—designed to help MSPs and IT teams stay ahead of evolving cyber threats. Each month, we’ll feature a new specialist tackling critical topics like incident response, cyber resilience, compliance, and security blind spots that could be putting your business—and your customers—at risk.

For our March event, host David Weeks welcomes Ollie Spence, CEO of CybaVerse, a leader in cybersecurity innovation.

Ollie has built CybaVerse into a globally recognized, award-winning cybersecurity company, trusted by thousands of businesses worldwide. He’s passionate about helping MSPs and IT teams strengthen their security posture with automation and cutting-edge strategies.

In this session, David and Ollie will break down:
- The biggest security gaps MSPs and IT teams often overlook—and how to fix them
- The latest cyber threats targeting businesses today and what future-savvy teams are doing to stay protected
- Practical, scalable security strategies you can implement right away

If you’re responsible for protecting business-critical systems, customer data, or ensuring compliance, this session is for you.

The Cyber Experts Series – Oliver Spence, CEO, CybaVerse

AI technologies are simultaneously completely transforming business operations and creating new security vulnerabilities that cannot be addressed by technical safeguards alone. When implementing AI-driven solutions, human oversight is the biggest differentiator between secure innovation and catastrophic data breaches. As such, human intervention is both the biggest vulnerability and most significant defense in organizational security architectures.

To address this challenge, IT leaders can build a security champions program—a network of engaged employees who understand AI-specific threats and serve as frontline defenders. This group bridges the gap between security teams and other business units. They spread security awareness throughout the organization while maintaining operational efficiency.

Join Vincent Amanyi to discover proven strategies for empowering a team of security champions who can help safeguard your organization's AI initiatives and digital assets.

Key Takeaways:

- Learn to assess AI-related security risks across all business functions
- Design a people-centric security strategy that combines technical controls and human intelligence
- Establish and structure an effective Security Champions Committee with clear roles and responsibilities

Fortifying the Human Firewall: Cultivating Security Champions in Today's AI Landscape

In today's threat landscape, where the average data breach costs organizations $9 million, your employees represent both your greatest vulnerability and your strongest defense. As AI-powered threats become more sophisticated and remote work expands the attack surface, traditional security awareness approaches are failing to create lasting behavioral change. The human element remains implicated in over 80% of breaches, yet most training programs still focus on compliance checkboxes rather than cultivating security champions.

Effective security awareness requires a strategic approach that addresses psychological barriers, leverages behavioral science and creates sustainable security habits. By reimagining how we engage employees—from executive leadership to frontline staff—organizations can transform their security culture from a perceived burden into a competitive advantage that measurably reduces incident rates and response times.

Join Ralph Villanueva, with 15+ years leading enterprise security awareness programs, to discover proven methodologies that transform employee behavior.

Key takeaways:

- Implement psychological triggers that convert passive training participants into active security defenders
- Design role-specific awareness programs that address the unique risks of different departments
- Measure training effectiveness beyond completion rates with behavior-based security metrics
- Secure executive buy-in by connecting awareness initiatives to tangible business outcomes
- Deploy just-in-time learning techniques that deliver training when employees are most receptive

Transforming Human Risk: 10 Battle-Tested Strategies for Modern Security Awareness

Organizations are investing heavily in advanced security tools. But the most critical—and vulnerable—component of cybersecurity defense is people. As AI-driven attacks and quantum-era risks emerge, the gap between technological capabilities and human cognitive readiness threatens to widen dramatically.

Security professionals face unprecedented pressure when responding to incidents. Even with robust detection and recovery tools, factors like stress, fatigue and decision paralysis can significantly increase recovery times and amplify damage. This presentation introduces an expanded MTTR formula incorporating the "Human Cognitive Factor"—a groundbreaking approach that addresses the psychological dimensions of security response that technology alone cannot solve.

Join Sandra Estok (Founder & CEO, Way2Protect) to discover why preparing employees will determine your organization's survival in the 2026 threatscape.

Key Takeaways:

- Master the expanded MTTR formula that quantifies how human cognitive factors impact recovery timelines
- Identify early warning signs of team cognitive impairment before they compromise your security posture
- Implement practical strategies to build psychological resilience and decision-making clarity under pressure
- Establish metrics that measure human performance alongside technical metrics for comprehensive security assessment
- Learn how leadership decisions about culture, team structure, and psychological safety directly influence threat response effectiveness

Strengthening Your Human Firewall: Closing Cognitive Security Gaps Before 2026

Both endpoint security and endpoint management are becoming more challenging, largely driven by an increasingly complex threat landscape and a greater number (and assortment) of both managed and unmanaged endpoint devices. This, combined with an overabundance of tools deployed to deal with these threats and devices, has created a false sense of security and the inability to process all the data being collected.

 To combat this, organizations are making efforts to integrate the teams, tools, and processes involved, and these efforts are having a positive impact on visibility and awareness. Similarly, organizations are eager to adopt new tools like Autonomous Endpoint Management to help them achieve their goals.

In this session from Endpoint Management and Security Gabe Knuth, you’ll learn both what research reveals about the challenges facing organizations, the risks associated with the status quo, and the path forward to improving overall endpoint management and security.

Overcoming Increasing Endpoint Security & Management Challenges

As organizations continue to accelerate their cloud adoption, the 2026 threatscape reveals an increasingly complex and dynamic environment. Attackers are leveraging AI-driven exploits, supply chain vulnerabilities, and sophisticated cloud-native attack vectors to target critical infrastructure and sensitive data. Meanwhile, regulatory landscapes and compliance requirements are rapidly evolving, demanding stronger governance and resilience strategies.

This session explores the top cloud security threats projected for 2026, including identity compromise, API exploitation, misconfiguration risks, and multi-cloud visibility challenges. It also highlights forward-looking defense strategies, from zero-trust architectures and autonomous remediation to AI-powered detection and response. Participants will gain actionable insights into building a proactive cloud security posture that not only addresses today’s risks but anticipates tomorrow’s challenges.

Emerging Risks, Evolving Defenses and the Future of Cloud Security

AI-powered digital transformation creates a critical security paradox: the systems accelerating innovation are prime vulnerability points. As our data volumes multiply with AI pipelines, organizations face new risks that traditional security frameworks never needed to cover. With AI-related breaches projected to increase significantly in 2025, securing these data flows has become a board-level priority.

Security teams have to be able to balance transformation speed with robust protection across the entire AI ecosystem. This requires rethinking data governance, implementing continuous validation protocols and establishing clear visibility into automated decision paths—all while maintaining the business velocity that AI enables. The challenge isn't just technical; it requires new governance models that align security, data science and business objectives.

Join Oksana Denesiuk (Senior Product Manager, Solution Consultant - Billing, Kaiser Permanente) to discover practical frameworks that will secure AI systems without sacrificing innovation speed.

Key takeaways:

- Identify hidden vulnerability points in AI pipelines that traditional security tools miss
- Implement data lineage tracking and validation protocols across your automation ecosystem
- Establish board-ready metrics that measure AI security posture and data protection efficacy
- Deploy zero-trust principles specifically designed for machine learning environments
- Balance security controls with the speed and scale benefits that drive AI adoption

Neutralizing AI Vulnerabilities: The New Cybersecurity Imperative

AI is a friend, but it can be a terrible foe when not properly used. In cybersecurity, we also see AI as an enabler of cyber-criminal activities and security errors. In this talk, we will focus on what you need to know to defend your enterprise against AI-enabled cyberattacks. We will also discuss how to protect yourself and your company against errors caused by the improper use of AI.

Learning objectives:

- Understand emerging AI-enabled cybercriminal trends
- Recognize and avoid mistakes that stem from blindly trusting AI
- Apply AI effectively to reduce and manage your organization’s threat landscape

I vs AI – AI Threat Landscape 2026

Digital transformation is changing how we do business, creating incredible opportunities for growth and innovation. But as we embrace new technologies and workflows, we also open the door to new cyber risks. 

Don't let these challenges slow your progress. Join us to learn how to stop being a gatekeeper and start turning your security operations into an enabler of business growth.

In this session, you'll discover:  
● Discover the latest social engineering trends from Unit 42 research.
● Empower your security teams with automation and machine-learning tools to focus on the most critical threats.
● Strengthen your organization's defenses by leveraging AI to respond faster and more effectively.
● See how the Cortex XSIAM, the AI-Driven SOC Platform makes all of this possible.

Register today and take the first step toward a more secure digital future.

Secure Your Innovations, Outsmart Cyber Risks

As cyber threats evolve in complexity and impact, organizations need to consider a new strategic direction for addressing "The 2026 Threatscape." This presentation explores whether companies should implement strategies that account for Low Probability, High Impact Events and what it takes to become a High Reliability Organization (HRO).

Organizations that transform into HROs can achieve a return on their cyber-resilience investments and enhanced customer confidence. This requires organizations to acknowledge all failures regardless of size, embrace complexity, empower front-line employees, build resilience and leverage subject-matter experts—all while confronting the rise of AI-powered threats.

In this session, we'll identify potential "undisclosed" risks of significant global disruption and explain why organizations must be perceived as reliable.

Steve Yates - Chairman of the Resilience Association, will share frontline experience on building resilience into both cyber resources and organizational structure. He'll discuss critical scenarios organizations must plan for, while addressing third-party dependencies and the essential human element of cybersecurity.

Key Takeaways:

- Analysis of Low Probability, High Impact Events, with focus on Global Supply Chain vulnerabilities and critical third-party dependencies
- Core components of the High Reliability Organization framework, including principles for embedding resilience processes into daily operations
- Practical strategies for navigating the next wave of Digital Resilience, including challenges to Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) amid technological advancement
- Case studies of recent significant disruptive events that tested major global organizations, with observations on effective defensive capabilities
- Actionable insights for developing a comprehensive strategic approach incorporating training, knowledge transfer, cross-organizational collaboration, and compliance measures

The 2026 Threatscape – Is it Time for a New Strategy?

As AI rapidly transforms the technological landscape, organizations face unprecedented security challenges that mean cybersecurity approaches must evolve. The convergence of AI with enterprise systems introduces new vulnerabilities, from confidential data exposure to emerging threat vectors that traditional security frameworks simply aren't designed to address.

The democratization of AI tools has created a dangerous security gap, with users routinely entering sensitive information and developers uploading proprietary code to public AI systems without adequate safeguards. This vulnerability extends to IoT ecosystems where AI-enabled devices must operate securely even in physically accessible environments—from factory floors to smart buildings. IoT manufacturers typically implement inconsistent, device-specific security protocols rather than adopting industry-standard frameworks, creating fragmented protection against evolving threats.

Cybersecurity leaders play a significant role in this context. They must transition from purely defensive roles to become strategic partners in AI governance, actively shaping AI policy and strategy to address these emerging challenges. Join Rob Clyde, Past Chair of ISACA and Chairman of Crypto Quantique, as he shares essential insights on securing your organization in the AI era.

Key takeaways:

- Learn essential cybersecurity considerations for IoT and other critical systems in the AI era
- Understand how cybersecurity professionals must actively shape AI policy and strategy
- Gain insights from ISACA's recent research on the current state of AI and cybersecurity
- Explore real-world examples of cyberattacks and vulnerabilities involving AI-powered IoT devices
- Discover strategies to address Shadow AI and protect sensitive information in AI systems

Securing the AI Frontier: Evolving Cybersecurity for Tomorrow's Threats

SentinelOne's AI & Cloud Security Evangelist, Chris Hosking, has been studying and analyzing the intricate world of cyber threats. In his upcoming expert session, you’ll hear a breakdown of recent findings. 

Chris will explore the critical connections and stark contrasts between the attack methodologies and evolving threat tactics employed by sophisticated nation-state adversaries and prolific e-crime threat actors. 

Through the lens of real-world attack scenarios, gain an understanding of this increasingly tangled community with mixed goals.  We will also confront the inherent complexities of attribution in the modern cyber landscape, exploring why definitively identifying the perpetrator behind an attack remains one of the most challenging aspects of cybersecurity. 

Hear new insights on:
The connections and contrasts in attack methodologies and threat tactics.
Analysis of real-world attacks to illustrate key differences.
The inherent difficulties and challenges in attributing cyber attacks.

Gain invaluable insights into how these diverse threat actors operate and arm yourself with the knowledge to better defend against their persistent campaigns

Threat Actors Unveiled: Nation State versus Cyber Crime

AI is accelerating attacker speed, scale, and creativity. The result isn’t just “more threats,” it’s more inefficient security; overlapping controls, blind spots in identity and SaaS, and testing that lags behind change. The answer isn't in implementing another tool. Instead, it’s about operationalizing control optimization; measuring how each control actually reduces risk in the face of AI-aided techniques and reallocating investment accordingly.

In this talk, Evgeniy Kharam shares a practical, vendor-neutral way to quantify effectiveness: define adversary-centric objectives (ATT&CK-mapped), set baselines, continuously validate controls across identity, endpoint, SaaS, and cloud, and translate outcomes into ROI the business understands. He’ll cover quick wins (days, not months), common pitfalls, and how to use these metrics to justify roadmap and spend for 2026.

Key takeaways:

• A simple model to measure real control effectiveness against AI-driven tactics
• How to find and fix “control drift” created by digital transformation
• What to automate in continuous validation—and what not to
• A board-ready ROI narrative that ties security outcomes to business risk

The Control Optimization Imperative: Security ROI in the Age of AI Threats

The telecommunications industry is undergoing a profound digital transformation driven by the need to deploy edge computing, 5G networks, and IoT applications and the requirement to deliver ultra-low latency services and superior customer experiences. This evolution, however, expands the attack surface for service providers and introduces new security challenges. Traditional security approaches often fall short when protecting dynamic, containerized environments, especially given rapid growth of API-based traffic.
This webinar will explore the growing threats that telco service providers face to infrastructure and applications, including API vulnerabilities and sophisticated DDoS attacks targeting core and edge networks. We will present the SUSE Rancher Prime + Radware Kubernetes Web Application and API Protection (KWAAP) solution, a Kubernetes-native, full-stack security framework that enables telcos to confidently deploy, scale, and secure Kubernetes environments across on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge locations.
Discover how Radware's industry-leading application, API, and DDoS protection deliver highly accurate detection and mitigation with behavioral analysis and real-time signature generation, crucial for combating zero-day attacks. We will detail Radware's flexible deployment options, including distributed protection across large-scale interconnected networks and peak protection services with a global network of 19 scrubbing centers offering 12 Tbps of mitigation capacity for even the largest volumetric attacks. Complementing this, SUSE Rancher Prime provides centralized Kubernetes management and includes SUSE Security for deep runtime container security and policy enforcement, ensuring compliance and operational efficiency for your 5G and edge-native workloads. 
Learn how this joint solution reduces risk, accelerates DevSecOps, and maintains control over rapidly growing Kubernetes workloads without increasing operational overhead.

Infrastructure Protection in the Age of Edge Computing, 5G, and IoT

As generative AI fuels a wave of sophisticated cyberattacks and changes the threat landscape, from deepfake phishing to AI-powered botnets, traditional Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are reaching a breaking point. Alert fatigue, manual processes, talent shortages, and fragmented hybrid environments leave defenders at a constant disadvantage.

In this 30-minute fireside chat, we’ll explore how modern enterprises, MSSPs, and connectivity providers can fight back, by turning AI from a threat into a strategic asset. 
Join us for an engaging conversation on how AI-driven automation is transforming SOC operations, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR), and restoring control.

Discussion topics will include:

• How attackers are using GenAI to bypass traditional defenses at scale
• Why SOCs are struggling across industries - not just regulated sectors
• Real-world examples of AI-augmented threat detection and response
• Best practices for accelerating root cause analysis and streamlining lifecycle management

Whether you operate an enterprise SOC or deliver managed detection and response services, this session will offer actionable insights to modernize your security posture and stay ahead in an AI-accelerated threat landscape.

AI-Driven Cyber Resilience: Transforming SOC Operations for Modern Enterprises and MSSPs

The 2026 Threatscape

Digital transformation is a race. To win, your organisation must innovate at speed, harnessing the power of AI, IoT, and the cloud. But this acceleration comes with a dangerous trade-off: every new technology expands your digital footprint and attack surface. This is the Trust Paradox: the faster we innovate, the harder it is to maintain the very trust that is essential for success. So how do you secure innovation without hitting the brakes?
 
Join Insight’s EMEA CISO, Rob O’Connor, to explore why security isn’t a brake but a steering wheel —a critical function that guides your innovation strategy safely and effectively. This session moves beyond fear, providing a practical framework for balancing protection and progress.

You will leave with a clear understanding of how to:

• Navigate the new landscape of risk: Unpack the hidden vulnerabilities in cloud misconfigurations , SaaS sprawl , IoT devices , and opaque AI decision-making.
• Confront next-generation threats: Learn how threat actors are weaponising AI for deepfakes and automated attacks and exploiting the supply chain dependencies of the cloud.
• Turn your human factor into an asset: Discover how to transform employees from a common point of error into your strongest defence through empowerment and scenario-based training.
• Embed security into your innovation DNA: Get actionable strategies for integrating security at every stage of a project , from DevSecOps pipelines to leveraging defensive AI for machine-speed threat detection.

Don't choose between innovation and security. Learn how to design for both and turn cyber resilience into your ultimate competitive advantage.

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