This channel features presentations by leading experts in the field of information security. From application, computer, network and Internet security to access control management, data privacy and other hot topics, you will walk away with practical advice for your strategic and tactical information security initiatives.

The explosion of cloud, AI and decentralized IT has created a perfect storm for data breaches. Traditional, perimeter-focused security strategies are no longer sufficient to protect sensitive information in this dynamic landscape. As sophisticated threats bypass legacy defenses and compliance regulations become more stringent, organizations face mounting risks and potential financial repercussions.

Today’s CIOs and security leaders need a new approach – one that prioritizes data visibility, access control, and encryption, wherever data resides. In this session, we'll dissect the core principles of a data-centric security model, exploring how it empowers businesses to proactively mitigate risks, reduce attack surfaces, and ensure regulatory compliance. We'll cut through the hype and offer practical strategies and emerging technologies that drive real results, showcasing how forward-thinking organizations are successfully navigating the complexities of modern data security.

Join Dr. Abilio Oliveira, Consultant, TOGAF Distinguished Architect, to get a roadmap to future-proof your data security posture in 2025 and beyond.

Key Takeaways:

Understand why perimeter-based security fails in the cloud era, necessitating a data-centric shift.
Learn the core principles of data-centric security, including data visibility, access control, and encryption.
Explore practical strategies and emerging technologies for proactive data protection and attack surface reduction.
Gain insights from real-world success stories of organizations improving risk and compliance with modern data security.

A New Vision for Data Security in the Cloud Age

It is well understood that the security perimeter is broken. This is why Gartner has reported that 63% of organizations worldwide have implemented a zero trust strategy. Zero trust is not a product but a framework to provide a holistic view on cybersecurity for the entire organization. Implementing zero trust goes beyond technical implementations but also requires a cultural shift. Everyone must actively contribute to its success. To be truly successful in implementing zero trust requires values that are shared across the business and adopted from top to bottom.        

The presentation will provide useful insight and information, including examples, on the cultural shift that will occur when fostering a zero trust mindset. This will allow everyone to recognize the importance of their contributions to the overall security of the business.

Join this discussion to learn:

- Understand how cybersecurity culture is a key component to reduce risk and enhance resilience
- Explore how the zero trust framework changes the way people view cybersecurity
- How to avoid the pitfalls associated with zero trust adoption
- Methods which encourage people, including senior leadership, to embrace the principals of zero trust
- Leverage the zero trust mindset to foster adaptability in the face of an ever-evolving threat landscape
- How other organizations have been able to develop a zero trust cybersecurity mindset

The Zero Trust Mindset: Getting Everyone Onboard

Zero Trust Architectures (ZTA) have become a cornerstone of modern security strategies in the era of sophisticated cyber threats and ever-expanding and morphing attack surfaces. But how can organizations ensure their zero trust frameworks stay adaptive, intelligent, and resilient? Enter artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)—the ultimate dynamic duo for elevating zero trust to the next level.

 This session delves into the powerful synergy between AI and ML and their role in strengthening zero trust principles. From real-time user behavior analysis and anomaly detection to predictive threat modeling and dynamic policy enforcement, AI and ML are transforming the way organizations approach security. Attendees will gain insights into practical use cases, including automating access controls, enhancing endpoint security, and optimizing network segmentation. Discover how these technologies can help your organization build a zero trust architecture that evolves with the threat landscape and ensures robust protection for your critical assets.

AI and ML: The Dynamic Duo for Strengthening Zero Trust Architecture

A lot of hype has recently been showered on AI working in sync with network security perimeter tools with the intention to enhance threat intelligence gathering. Nevertheless, the people aspect of the people-process-technology triad is still vital. Even better, it still works best with open-source threat intelligence. 

In this presentation, industry thought leader Ralph Villanueva will highlight while automating threat intelligence is great, the human factor in gathering timely and critical information from open sources is equally important. Companies cannot simply rely solely on AI algorithms despite the hype.

OSINT Threat Intelligence: Still a Reliable Tool Amidst the AI and Machine Learning Hype

Learn how to create a unified approach to security and operations by overcoming organizational resistance and bridging gaps between teams. 

Tune into this in-depth webinar from TD Bank's Application Release Engineer Pankul Chitrav as she shares:
- Techniques for aligning security and operations teams towards shared objectives.
- How to implement proactive, security-minded workflows without disrupting operational speed.
- The role of leadership in driving cultural transformation and overcoming resistance to change.
- Real-world case studies showcasing the success of Secure Ops integration.

From Conflict to Collaboration: Building a SecOps Culture

The evolving threat landscape requires security operations (SecOps) to move beyond traditional methods and embrace cutting-edge innovations. Generative AI is emerging as a game-changer, enabling security teams to automate and enhance threat intelligence processes with unprecedented speed and accuracy.

In this session, we will explore how generative AI tools transform SecOps by automating tasks such as malware analysis, threat report generation, and contextual threat modeling. Attendees will learn how to integrate generative AI into their SecOps workflows to improve detection, decision-making, and response times while reducing the burden on human analysts.

Generative AI in SecOps: Automating the Art of Threat Intelligence

As organizations race to adopt AI technologies, many overlook the complex -- and often vulnerable -- supply chains that power them. From open-source libraries and training data to model hosting and deployment pipelines, every layer introduces potential risk. 

This talk from industry thought leader Yesenia Yser will unpack the anatomy of the AI supply chain and expose the weak points most commonly exploited by threat actors, including prompt injection, model poisoning, and malicious dependencies. She’ll examine real-world examples that illustrate how these risks manifest and offer practical strategies to fortify your AI stack -- from secure development practices and component validation to continuous monitoring and governance. 

Whether you're an AI engineer, cybersecurity professional, or technical leader, this session will provide the insights and tools needed to secure your AI systems against emerging threats and maintain trust in open-source intelligence.

Unpacking the AI Supply Chain: Strategies to Fortify Open Source Intelligence

Shifting left sounds great in theory but often creates an overwhelming burden on developers who aren't security experts. And traditional security gates create friction that developers bypass, leading to breaches.

In this webinar, industry thought leader Atulpriya Sharma will explore the concept of "invisible security" using GenAI to embed security guardrails into existing workflows without developer friction. Unlike traditional approaches, invisible security emphasizes zero context switching, natural language feedback, and guidance over blocking. We'll demonstrate how LLMs translate complex security concepts into actionable guidance at integration points developers already use - GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, IDE extensions, and much more.

Join us to discover implementation strategies that transform security from a burdensome afterthought to frictionless protection without sacrificing developer velocity.

Invisible Security: Embedding GenAI Guards Into Developer Workflows

Every minute of business disruption costs organizations millions – and cyber attackers know it. As threat actors weaponize AI and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities with unprecedented speed, the difference between survival and failure often comes down to how quickly you can recover from an attack.

Modern cyber resilience demands a paradigm shift – moving beyond traditional security measures to create business-aligned defense strategies. By identifying and protecting mission-critical assets through the Minimum Viable Company (MVC) framework, security leaders can ensure business continuity even in the face of sophisticated attacks while optimizing resource allocation and demonstrating clear ROI to the board.

Join Roselle Safran, CEO & Founder of KeyCaliber, as she shares battle-tested strategies for building and implementing a cyber resilience program that directly supports business objectives and ensures operational continuity.

Key Takeaways:

- Learn how to identify and define your organization's Minimum Viable Company (MVC) components to prioritize protection of business-critical assets
- Discover methodologies for aligning cyber resilience strategies with business objectives and risk appetite
- Master techniques for testing resilience capabilities against real-world scenarios without disrupting operations
- Gain practical insights into implementing and measuring the effectiveness of your cyber resilience program through business-focused metrics

Business-Centric Cyber Resilience: Protect What Matters Most

The emergence of quantum computing presents a unique challenge to the cybersecurity landscape. This transformative technology poses significant risks to current encryption methods, particularly for asymmetric cryptography systems like RSA and Diffie-Hellman, which secure most network communications today.
Organizations face a critical challenge: their existing cryptographic infrastructure may soon become obsolete against quantum computing capabilities. 
 
This presentation offers vital strategies for preparing for this transition, similar in scope to the Y2K challenge. The solutions presented are particularly valuable because they follow NIST guidelines rather than vendor-specific approaches, providing a standardized framework for organizations to assess their risk exposure and implement quantum-resistant algorithms systematically.
 
Join John Bruggeman (Virtual CISO, CBTS) to get a roadmap to transition from current encryption methods to quantum-resistant alternatives, ensuring long-term data security.

Key takeaways:
- Quantum Risk Assessment: Learn how quantum computing threatens current encryption algorithms and data privacy
- Strategic Implementation: Discover the essential steps for identifying at-risk data, conducting thorough data inventories, and documenting current cryptography usage across your organization's systems and tools.
- Industry Impact Assessment: Understand how to quantify and document quantum computing risks specific to your industry
- Transition Planning: Master the approach to implementing NIST-guided quantum-resistant solutions through a systematic, long-term project framework

Post Quantum Cryptography: Securing the Future

The way employees communicate and collaborate is constantly evolving, and so too are the security threats they face. The rise of generative AI adds a new layer of complexity, requiring CISOs to proactively address the risks of data loss and potential harm to the organization.

Traditional security approaches often fall short in addressing the unique challenges posed by modern collaboration tools and the integration of GenAI. Understanding and mitigating these risks is critical for maintaining data privacy, preventing leakage, and ensuring compliance. We'll share Metrigy's latest research data to reveal actionable strategies for a comprehensive, business-aligned security strategy.

Join Irwin Lazar (President and Principal Analyst at Metrigy)  to discover the key components of a modern security approach, including how to:

- Establish alignment between IT, collaboration, and security teams to address evolving threats.
- Identify emerging threats stemming from new applications and out-of-band communications.
- Understand how generative AI creates new risks for data privacy, leakage, and effective data management.
- Develop a comprehensive security strategy tailored for collaborative environments and the GenAI landscape.
- Evaluate the benefits of third-party platforms optimized for collaboration and GenAI security to enhance your security posture.

Secure Collaboration in the Age of GenAI: A CISO's Guide to Risk Mitigation

In the ever-evolving landscape of DevOps, the paradigm is now shifting - where security is taking the central stage. With vast surface areas including containers, cloud, repositories and third-party components, cyber threats became more prominent than ever before in DevOps.

This presentation will delve into the evolution from traditional DevOps to the advanced usage of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to automate and optimize the software development and delivery processes. This includes automating code scanning, testing and deployment processes while eliminating the threats in each possible way in the cycle.

In this session, join Jyotirmayee Pradeep Kumar (Vice President - Cloud DevOps at a well-known global bank) as she unravels the stages of integration of AI at each phase of DevOps. Topics for discussion include:
- Types of AI used in DevOps.
- Benefits of using AI in DevOps.
- Implementation of AI in DevOps.
- Best practices for using AI in DevOps.
- Eliminating security threats using AI in DevOps.

Security Risks to Consider with AI Integration: AI in DevOps

Traditional penetration tests often miss the mark, failing to replicate the real-world tactics of today's sophisticated threat actors. In this session, Alex Holden, CISO of Hold Security, cuts through the noise and reveals how to transform your pen testing program with actionable threat intelligence.

You'll discover the latest attack trends and learn practical methods to simulate realistic cyber threats against your own defenses. From vulnerability exploitation to ransomware and social engineering, this session provides a hands-on guide to assessing your security readiness against the attacks that matter most right now. Leave with a clear roadmap to build a more resilient and threat-informed security posture.

Key Takeaways

- Understand the limitations of traditional pen testing and why threat intelligence is crucial
- Learn practical techniques for incorporating real-world attack simulations into your security assessments
- Gain a framework for building a more resilient and proactive security posture based on actionable threat intelligence

Smarter Pen Testing with Threat Intel

To succeed as a CISO in 2025, you first need guts and luck. This year is poised to bring huge disruption. Unless you have been involved in the design, delivery, direction and drivers for an organization’s technology infrastructure, are supported by effective management processes and procedures, and have a large budget and resources, you will need to re-evaluate your strategy.

This webinar will challenge your understanding of good practices and focus on “known, knowns”, identifying the challenges that can arise for the "SHOCKS, HORRORS and EXCUSES" that accompany significant disruptions. It was also explore a need to learn lessons from the past to prepare for the future.

Together we will consider challenges arising for CISOs, by answering:
1) What key areas should CISOs focus on during 2025?
2) Why should CISOs establish an operational resilience strategy? 
3) How would scenarios versus resources assist CISOs in their strategic delivery? 

Tune into this session presented by operational resilience expert Steve Yates, as he explores the challenges faced by CISOs, and why their function is so critical to the survival of organizations and society, especially as nation state actors and other hacker groups seeks to attack our company and personal data.

Viewers will come away from this session with the ability to:
- Form an understanding of an operational risk approach.
- Consider the challenges that exist in adopting a “siloed” approach. 
- Know the need of exercising your organization for a critical scenario.

What are the Top CISO Priorities for 2025?

From data breaches to ransomware attacks, the cost of cybercrime is skyrocketing, demanding a new approach to security. Playing defense is no longer enough. Organizations need to anticipate threats and build resilience into their systems.  

CISOs and security leaders face immense pressure to stay ahead of the curve and build resilient organizations capable of withstanding and recovering quickly from security breaches. A product-led approach offers a proactive, data-driven solution for incident response, transforming security events into opportunities for continuous improvement. 

In this session, Oksana Denesiuk, product lead for billing and payments at Kaiser Permanente and ISSA Advisory Board Member, explores how cybersecurity teams can adopt a product mindset to enhance incident response, leveraging agile methodologies, iterative learning, and customer-centric thinking. 

Key Takeaways
- Embrace a product-centric approach to incident response, treating security incidents as valuable data points for continuous improvement.
- Integrate automated threat detection, secure coding practices, and incident learnings into the product roadmap.
- Use post-incident analytics, telemetry, and threat intelligence to refine security controls, enhance detection capabilities, and reduce the attack surface.
- Implement AI-driven detection, automated remediation workflows, and security orchestration (SOAR) to improve MTTR and MTTD.

Turning Incidents into Insights: A Product-Led Approach to Incident Response

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) offerings are over twenty years old. SIEM's log aggregation and compliance focus has taken a backseat to other emerging cybersecurity technologies which are more proactive. However, technological improvements have led to a resurgence in SIEM offerings. SIEMs can now enhance real-time threat detection, automate incident response, and support zero trust architectures. Most importantly, they are in a better position to support modern cloud environments and to address sophisticated cyberattacks.

Tune in to the presentation from business owner and professor Charles Kolodgy, who will provide insights and examples on how SIEM improvements are enhancing cybersecurity operations, particularly in the security operations center (SOC). The discussion will cover the benefits of orchestration and automation capabilities, threat intelligence integration, and AI implementation.

Join this discussion to learn:
- How the SIEM has evolved from a log consolidator to an integrated security platform that can provide full visibility, alerting, and detection while adding automation and response and other capabilities.
- The capabilities, advantages, and disadvantages of modern SIEM technology.
- The cost savings and operational efficiencies that come with SIEM technology improvements.
- The synergies between next-gen SIEM and a zero trust architecture.
- How the modern SIEM can work with and integrate well with other SOC elements.
- The leading advanced SIEM products.

The Evolution of the SIEM: Seeing and Doing More to Stop Attacks

As digital transformation accelerates and cloud-native applications become the new norm, application security faces a constantly evolving threat landscape. This session from TD Bank's Pankul Chitrav explores how organizations can adapt their security posture to defend against increasingly sophisticated attacks, from zero-day exploits to API abuse and supply chain vulnerabilities. We’ll outline modern security frameworks, such as DevSecOps and zero trust, and highlight practical strategies to embed security into every stage of the application lifecycle. 

Learn how to future-proof your security architecture and maintain resilience in the face of persistent and emerging threats.

Future-Proof Your Security Architecture Against Today's Persistent Threats

As organizations shift to cloud-native architectures, securing workloads becomes increasingly complex. Traditional methods like hardcoded secrets and service accounts were designed for static systems, not the dynamic, distributed applications we build today. In this session, learn the concept of Trusted Workload Identity—a new approach that doesn’t just manage secrets but verifies identity at runtime using open standards and cutting-edge security practices.

Join cybersecurity advocate Sal Kimmich for an accessible introduction to key technologies like SPIFFE, SPIRE, JWT-SVIDs, and confidential computing. You’ll learn how these tools work together to automatically assign cryptographic identities to workloads and enable secure, policy-driven communication across clouds, containers, and even serverless functions.

Whether you’re a developer, DevSecOps engineer, or app security lead, this session will help you understand how workload identity fits into modern application security—and why it’s quickly becoming a critical piece of secure-by-design infrastructure.

Key Takeaways:
- Why legacy secret management no longer meets today’s security demands.
- What "workload identity" means and how it's different from user authentication.
- How open-source tools like SPIFFE and SPIRE simplify identity and trust.
- What confidential computing adds to runtime verification and secure execution.
- Practical steps to start implementing workload identity in your environment.

Discover the Future of Trusted Workload Identity to Secure Your Sensitive Applications

The IT security community on BrightTALK is composed of more than 200,000 IT security professionals trading relevant information on software assurance, network security and mobile security. Join the conversation by watching on-demand and live information security webinars and asking questions of experts and industry leaders.

IT Security

Increasing expectations for good governance, effective risk management and complex demands for corporate compliance are presenting a growing challenge for organizations of all sizes. Join industry thought leaders as they provide you with practical advice on how to implement successful risk and compliance management strategies across your organization. Browse risk management resources in the form of interactive webinars and videos and ask questions of expert GRC professionals.

IT Governance, Risk and Compliance

As an IT professional, many of the problems you face are multifaceted, complex and don’t lend themselves to simple solutions. The information technology community features useful and free information technology resources. Join to browse thousands of videos and webinars on ITIL best practices, IT security strategy and more presented by leading CTOs, CIOs and other technology experts.