Name: Threat Forecast Vs. Operational Risk: What Keeps You Awake At Night? Part 2
Start: 2023-11-02T16:00:00Z
End: 2023-11-02T16:00:55.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.8

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.

Organizations excel at documenting incidents but fail catastrophically at remembering them. Between audits, hard-won lessons evaporate, cultural knowledge resets to zero and enterprises find themselves vulnerable to the same predictable risks that should have been eliminated months ago.

This session reframes security culture as a living control system where organizational memory becomes your strongest defense. Discover how to transform retrospectives into measurable feedback loops, quantify learning as risk reduction and embed institutional knowledge into governance frameworks that create compounding resilience rather than cyclical vulnerability.

Join Oksana Denesiuk, Senior Product Manager at Kaiser Permanente and ISSA Advisory Board Member, to explore proven methodologies for building unbreakable organizational memory.

Key Takeaways: 
- Track how lessons learned translate into behavioral change and improved security posture. 
- Build lasting organizational memory through structured post-incident processes that strengthen defenses over time.
- Measure how well your organization learns from incidents and translate that into reduced security risks.
- Transform retrospectives into measurable feedback loops that prevent incident recurrence. 
- Embed organizational knowledge into leadership and accountability models for sustained cultural transformation.

Transform Security Culture into Measurable Organizational Memory

Since technology cannot keep us completely protected, organizations must embrace a culture of cybersecurity to build true resilience. This cultural transformation is essential to safeguard against risks and ensure readiness to respond effectively when incidents occur.

This session explores how leading organizations are embedding cybersecurity into their values, attitudes, and practices. By fostering a culture of resilience, businesses can strengthen their ability to anticipate, adapt to, and recover from cyber threats. Learn why every manager has a pivotal role in shaping this culture and how to implement strategies that drive lasting change.

Join Dr. Keri Pearlson, Principal Research Scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management, to explore actionable steps for building a culture of cybersecurity that protects your organization and empowers your workforce.

Takeaways:
- Understand cyber resilience thinking and how it differs from traditional protection strategies.
- Discover key mechanisms for fostering an effective cybersecurity culture.
- Gain actionable insights for managers to enhance resilience at work and home.
- Learn from real-world examples of organizations successfully embedding cybersecurity into their culture.

Building Cyber Resilience Through Culture in 2026

Mergers and acquisitions create exponential cyber risk exposure, yet many organizations lack quantified risk frameworks to guide critical business decisions. As cyber threats evolve and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, executives need concrete data to balance growth opportunities against security investments.

Traditional risk assessments fail during rapid organizational change. This session reveals proven methodologies for translating cyber vulnerabilities into financial impact metrics that drive boardroom decisions. Learn to build communication frameworks that align security investments with business objectives while maintaining stakeholder confidence throughout complex organizational transitions.

Join Vincent Amanyi, Founder of Boleaum Inc, to explore actionable strategies for enterprise cyber risk quantification and communication.

Key Takeaways: 
- Develop risk appetite frameworks that identify, prioritize, and absorb organizational risks with minimal business disruption. 
- Master cyber risk quantification techniques that assign tangible dollar values to security threats across all business levels.
- Build structured communication models to effectively convey cyber risk criticality to diverse stakeholder groups. 
- Implement scalable cybersecurity benchmarking practices for growing organizations. 
- Create boardroom-ready risk reports that support strategic decision-making during M&A activities.

Quantify Cyber Risk Impact for Strategic M&A Growth

Breaches have become a daily reality. Dark web activities and emerging threat vectors outpace traditional defenses, creating blind spots that adversaries readily exploit. Without early warning systems, businesses remain vulnerable to sophisticated attacks that could have been prevented.

Effective Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) transforms raw intelligence into actionable insights that enable proactive defense strategies. This session demonstrates how to operationalize intelligence, map adversary tactics to business risks, and implement early warning systems that prevent breaches before they occur. Learn to distinguish signal from noise and convert threat intelligence into measurable risk reduction metrics that resonate with executive leadership.

Leverage Cyber Threat Intelligence for Proactive Risk Mitigation

Open-source software drives enterprise innovation, but unmanaged vulnerabilities create operational risks and regulatory exposure. As cyber threats evolve and compliance frameworks tighten, executives face mounting pressure to balance innovation speed with robust security governance.

Traditional approaches to OSS security often create friction between development teams and security requirements, leading to shadow IT practices and increased exposure. This session presents proven frameworks for integrating security into OSS workflows while maintaining developer productivity and meeting emerging regulatory demands like the EU Cyber Resilience Act.

Join Yesenia Yser, Security Engineer and Open-Source Advocate, to explore enterprise-grade strategies for OSS risk management.



Key Takeaways: 

Implement governance frameworks that protect OSS dependencies without slowing development
Create shared accountability between security, procurement, and engineering teams
Apply SLSA, SBOM, and OpenSSF standards to build enterprise-wide security trust
Balance regulatory requirements with collaborative open source community practices 
Turn OSS security management into a strategic business differentiator

Securing Open-Source Dependencies at Enterprise Scale

The current data security and privacy protection landscape is awash with tools, acronyms, buzzwords that promise to make data breaches and privacy incidents a thing of the past. Yet hotel chains, healthcare providers, banks, department stores and even governments constantly fall victim to data breaches, ransomware or nation-state attacks. 

The plain truth is that tools are only as good as the people that use them and the processes that go with it. Two thousand years ago, the Roman empire had better military tools than the nations they conquered. Yet through time, the Romans fell to the barbarians and are merely remembered through their ruins. Likewise, companies with the latest and most buzzworthy technology implemented still manage to fall victim to attacks. 

In this presentation, industry thought leader Ralph Villanueva will tap into over 15 years’ experience of data security and privacy protection to show why ultimately, the people behind the tools and the processes they use matter more in securing your organization’s data. 

Key Takeaways:
 - How to best deploy tools in the most cost-effective way to optimize benefits.
 - How to best deploy tools to mitigate data security risks from internal and external threats. 
 - The importance of a balanced and holistic approach to data security that equally considers people, processes and technology.

Tools are Nothing: Why People and Process Matter More in Data Security and Privacy

Data security has entered a new era, one defined by AI-powered threats, expanding cloud ecosystems, and evolving global privacy regulations. 

This session presented by TD Bank's Pankul Chitrav explores the critical shifts reshaping how organisations must protect sensitive information in a boundaryless digital world. We will break down the top risks, the essential capabilities of modern security architectures, and the must-have tools for protecting data across endpoints, cloud platforms, and AI workflows. From zero trust to automated posture management and advanced data discovery, you’ll learn what’s required to stay ahead of adversaries and maintain compliance. Whether you’re modernising your security program or building one from the ground up, this talk equips you with the insights needed to create a future-ready data protection strategy for 2025 and beyond.

Future-Ready Data Protection: Securing Modern Data Ecosystems in an AI-Driven World

Cyberattacks are continuing at pace and we're regularly hearing of new data breaches. But who is responsible for ensuring the security of personal data? 

Traditional data protection approaches are failing against modern attack vectors. Organizations need future-ready strategies that go beyond compliance checkboxes to create resilient security frameworks. In this session, we'll explore the current risks to personal data & privacy and delve into the range of models that can be used to protect your organizations critical assets.

This webinar will take you through examples of recent data breaches, identifying the challenges being experienced, learning from what went wrong and how best organizations can plan for the future. Such planning will investigate current good practice, adding some “steroids” to them such that organizations can hopefully stay in front of the next “breach”!

Steve Yates – Chairman of the Resilience Association, will share frontline experience about critical data assets security and protection of user privacy.  

Key Takeaways:

- Be aware of the challenges being experienced in the protection of data security & privacy;
- Understand how best to plan your data resources and capacity to meet tomorrow’s defense;
- Discover the core organizational elements needed for the establishment of a strategic, tactical and operational solution

Strengthen Data Security Strategy for Tomorrow's Resilience Defense

AWS infrastructure offers robust native security mechanisms, but the shared responsibility model places critical configuration burdens on app owners. This creates gaps that attackers can actively exploit through misconfigurations, privilege escalation, and cross-service vulnerabilities which can compromise entire cloud deployments.

Security automation emerges as an essential defense strategy for threat modeling, enabling businesses to enforce security best practices from deployment through ongoing operations. Automated security controls provide continuous monitoring, real-time threat detection, and optimized remediation across AWS services. This ensures a consistent security posture while reducing human error and response times.

Join Ernesto Marquez, Founder and Project Director at Concurrency Labs, to explore proven AWS security automation strategies for threat mitigation.

Key Takeaways: 

- Implement automated security controls that enforce best practices across AWS services 
- Deploy continuous monitoring and real-time threat detection for multicloud environments 
- Configure automated remediation workflows for common security vulnerabilities 
- Integrate AWS security automation tools into comprehensive threat modeling frameworks 
- Establish governance policies that maintain security consistency across cloud deployments

Deploy Automated AWS Defenses for Threat Prevention

As cloud supply chain attacks escalate in sophistication, traditional SBOMs alone prove insufficient for comprehensive security. While SBOMs provide valuable component inventories, they lack runtime verification capabilities—creating a critical blind spot that malicious actors increasingly exploit. This gap between static analysis and runtime behavior represents one of the most significant vulnerabilities in modern cloud environments.

The "Bill of Behavior" (BoB) approach addresses this challenge by providing vendor-supplied profiles of expected runtime behaviors. Generated using eBPF technology, BoBs codify legitimate syscalls, file access patterns and network communications. This enables immediate anomaly detection without custom rule creation, allowing organizations to verify software integrity throughout the supply chain and during execution, dramatically reducing the attack surface while simplifying security operations.

Join Dr. Constanze Roedig, Key Researcher at SBA-Research and Founder of Fusioncore.ai, to discover how this emerging standard complements existing SBOM frameworks to create verifiable trust in your cloud ecosystem.

Key Takeaways:
- Understand how Software Bills of Behavior (SBoBs) create verifiable trust between vendors and clients
- Learn practical implementation strategies using existing OCI distribution standards
- Discover how BoBs significantly reduce attack surfaces across both runtime and supply chain vectors
- Explore immediate benefits of receiving vendor-supplied behavior profiles with software packages
- Discover how CNCF Kubescape allows anomaly detection out of the box

Beyond SBOMs: Runtime Verification for Bulletproof Cloud Supply Chains

Organizations are rapidly adopting AI technologies without fully understanding the security implications. This is creating unprecedented vulnerabilities in cloud environments. In turn, with AI accessible to all stakeholders, the human factor has become the weakest link in cybersecurity defense strategies.

This session addresses critical considerations for IT and cybersecurity leaders to balance business innovation with risk management. Learn how to establish ethical AI frameworks, implement proper access controls, and build awareness programs that protect your organization while enabling AI adoption.

Join Kathleen Mullin, vCISO and Consultant, to explore practical strategies for securing AI in cloud environments while maintaining business agility.

Key takeaways:

• Define clear RACI matrices for AI business risk ownership and accountability 
• Assess whether AI solutions truly meet business requirements vs. alternative approaches
• Establish data governance and access controls specifically for cloud-based AI systems 
• Develop comprehensive AI awareness programs for organizational stakeholders 
• Evaluate current and future cloud AI risks within your security framework

Considerations: Securing the Cloud And In Specific AI

As organizations accelerate cloud adoption, sophisticated security technologies often create a false sense of protection while the most significant threats emerge from within. Human behaviour continues to be the weakest link in cloud security, not due to malicious intent, but through everyday mistakes that inadvertently expose critical systems.

When they create friction, security measures designed to protect can inadvertently increase risk as users will find shortcuts to achieve their legitimate objectives. This session explores the psychology behind user decision-making and reveals how threat actors exploit human nature to bypass cloud defenses, turning legitimate business processes into attack vectors.

Join Simon Ratcliffe, independent management & technology consultant, to discover practical strategies for human-centered cloud security.

Key Takeaways:

- Identify psychological triggers that make users vulnerable to cloud-based attacks 
- Recognize how security friction drives risky user behaviors and workarounds
- Design user-centric security that reduces human error without compromising protection 
- Develop indicators to detect insider threats before they escalate 
- Build security awareness programs that create lasting behavioral change

Securing the Human Element: Why People Remain Cloud Security's Top Vulnerability in 2025

Insider threats are one of the most challenging security risks in multicloud environments, where authorized users can exploit fragmented access controls and limited visibility across platforms. When organizations lack comprehensive oversight of user activities, data flows and privilege escalation paths, the risk posed by human error and malicious insiders is much greater.



Multicloud architectures amplify insider threat risks through inconsistent identity management, scattered audit trails, and complex permission structures that create blind spots for security teams. Strategic threat modeling designed around insider risks enables organizations to map user access patterns, identify privilege abuse scenarios, and implement behavioral monitoring across all cloud platforms before incidents occur.



Join Sandeep Tripathi, IT Solutions Designer at Daimler Truck AG, to discover systematic approaches for detecting and preventing insider threats in complex multicloud environments.



Key Takeaways: 

- Identify insider risk scenarios across cloud platforms using threat modelling frameworks
- Implement comprehensive user behavior analytics and cross-cloud activity monitoring
- Limit insider threat impact and lateral movement using zero-trust access controls.
- Develop incident response protocols for insider-driven security breaches
- Create governance frameworks for managing privileged access in multicloud environments

Mitigate Insider Threats in Multicloud Through Strategic Modeling

Every minute your cloud infrastructure grows, it creates new entry points for potential attacks. As organizations rush to embrace cloud innovations, they're unknowingly building digital labyrinths where traditional security measures fall short.

Cloud security threats are often perceived as purely technical challenges, but the human factor remains one of the most significant and underestimated risks. Misconfigurations, weak passwords, phishing attacks, and inadequate training open doors to breaches even in sophisticated environments. Employees inadvertently expose sensitive data through social engineering, while administrators overlook crucial updates. Insider threats pose significant risks when cloud systems are accessible from anywhere.

Join Jyotirmayee Pradeep Kumar, Vice President of Cloud DevOps at a leading global bank, to explore human factors in cloud security threats.

Key Takeaways: 
- Human error as the leading cause of cloud security breaches 
- Phishing attacks and social engineering threat vectors 
- Managing insider threats in distributed cloud environments 
- Essential security awareness training and culture development 
- Zero Trust architecture implementation strategies

Managing Human Risk in Cloud Security Operations

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

In anticipation of future cyber security challenges, as well as enable organizations to address current ones, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the draft version of NIST Cyber Security Framework (CSF) version 2.0 for comments on August 8, 2023. Once all comments are submitted on November 4, 2023, this new version will be finalized in early 2024. 

This will be a very important tool against cybersecurity risks in 2024 not only because it is a government issued gold standard for cyber security, but also because it emphasizes cyber security governance and cyber security supply chain risk management. A lot of severe cyber incidents in recent years can be traced to a combination of bad decisions and third parties.

In this presentation, Ralph will give the audience a first look at this new upcoming NIST CSF v2.0 and show how they can use it to protect their companies from a myriad of cyber security risks in 2024 and beyond.

NIST CSF v2.0: A Potent Tool Against Cybersecurity Risks in 2024 and Beyond

This session from industry thought leader will provide a 360-degree view on how to develop a strategy that can easily drive a zero day attack, while maintaining ironclad environment. 

Key takeaways:
- Understand the moving part of your organization entities. 
- Establish an enterprise posture that mirror's your assets. 
- Develop a mechanism to manage attack evolution.

Developing Strategy That Enables Zero-Day Exploitation

Explore groundbreaking insights, uncover staggering findings from a threat analysis report of 1.3 million scanned emails, and discover unparalleled defense strategies against advanced threats. Arm yourself with knowledge and AI-powered solutions to safeguard your digital communication.

How to Stay Protected From Advanced Email Attacks With AI

Today’s approach to assess defensive capabilities is broken.  The manual processes used by security teams for threat mapping are manual, time-intensive, inefficient, usually focus on IOC-based threat intelligence, and are reliant on point-in-time data. As a result, there’s a lack of understanding between actual threat and defensive capabilities. New exploits are discovered weekly and with multiple CISA advisories/alerts every month, the process to assess readiness after every release is daunting.

The ability to quickly understand cyber defense readiness is critical to staying on the offensive or left of boom.  What if you could shift this approach from manual to automated and focus preparedness on the threats that matter most?

Join us as we explore a new approach for automating Cyber Defense Readiness that aligns your controls and fleet assets with the threats targeting your organization. We’ll share how Interpres helps organizations reduce their time to analyze security technologies and protective policies from hours to minutes a day.

Are You Prepared? Aligning Your Cyber Defense Readiness to Threat Exposure

Hear from cybersecurity industry luminary Mark McLaughlin, former Chairman & CEO of Palo Alto Networks, on the hard truths of data security and how known and unknown threats are impacting organizations.

Learn about the state of data security, the impact of known and unknown threats on organizations worldwide, and the need to move beyond prevention. Or just watch for an inspirational leadership lesson or two. 

Make sure to take a look at the attachments as well - we've added extra learnings on how to optimise data protection and provided you with additional resources to help set you up for success.

The Evolving Data Threat Landscape: A Fireside Chat w/ Mark McLaughlin

Join Jen Easterly, Director of CISA, and Wendy Thomas, Secureworks CEO, in a thought-provoking fireside chat as they share the rising imperative for cyber defense through collaboration. As threats grow and attack surfaces expand, today's security responsibility extends beyond the CISO, to Boards, CEOs, and other business decision-makers. Jen and Wendy will share real world stories as well as strategies that can fortify organizational defenses by ensuring a united front against modern cyber challenges. Learn why the future of cybersecurity is collaborative.

Defend Your Frontiers with Collaborative Cybersecurity Defenses

Within the cybersecurity sphere, there’s a general reluctance to rock the status-quo: think of the “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” attitude. Although adopting this mentality, given the current vein of debilitating ransomware, phishing, social engineering, and DDoS attacks, could be your undoing.

As such, it’s important for customers to continually evaluate their security tools and procedures, ROI, and gap analysis, and after which then create action plans to bolster their cyber posture.

On the other side of the coin, security vendors must adopt this evaluation mode, too, inviting and actioning feedback from customers and developing their tools with both customers and the adversaries in mind.

Watch this Fireside Chat featuring Katie Ralph, EMEA Solutions Engineering, SonicWall to discover what happens when customers and vendors rest on their laurels, and to learn how to reverse this trend with a cybersecurity assessment framework.

What Happens When Cybersecurity Pros & Vendors Rest on Their Laurels

There is a common sense that companies need to develop and establish a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy to protect their own perimeter from attacks and also react fast and in the right way if they are under fire.
Despite the fact that still many enterprises don’t have a real strategy until they become a victim – which factors should you take into account when you decide to develop and implement a cybersecurity strategy to protect your company?
 
There is no silver bullet, no strategy you can just clone from another company. Different scales of businesses need to develop different strategies based on
- Budget
- Threat landscape
- Targets
- Type of data
- Business sector
 
In our session you will learn how you can develop a cybersecurity strategy that really that is tailored to really protect your business and helps to to react in the right way to mitigate caber attacks. And you will also learn how much budget you should really invest to be protected.

One fits all? No! All you need to develop the right cybersecurity strategy

Organisations are sitting on an ocean of data. On the surface that ocean looks vast, yet stable. But anyone dropped into its depths knows that it’s teeming with life. Vision is limited, but the more you look - the more data you’ll find. Data is the most critical asset of every organisation and securing this data as it rapidly grows across cloud, SaaS, and on premise is once again one of the most significant challenges facing IT and Security teams in 2024. 

As data is now the primary target of cyberattackers with 59% of organisations reporting a data breach in 2022, and the projection is that a typical organisations’ data volume will triple in the next five years, how do you close the cyber resilience gap and secure your data?

In this fireside chat, you’ll hear from Steve Stone, Head of Rubrik Zero Labs, Rubrik, and Simon Ratcliffe as they discuss:

● The disturbing industry trends of malicious actors success rate
● How beating the attackers depends on your readiness to respond
● The growth of data and its impact on cyber resilience

The Data Seascape: What You Don't Know Will Hurt You

Our presentation team will cover 4 key areas that focus on the time-saving advantages that many large language models (LLMs) can offer, but also highlights important considerations for the potential risks to the organization’s reputation, IP, and overall security posture, by using an LLM.

These 4 areas include:
- AI Applied: The current scenario mindset - examining ROI and competitive advantage.
- AI Risk: The worst-case scenario mindset - reputational risk and loss of intellectual property.
- AI Trust: The best-case scenario mindset – aligning brand values with customer values- every relationship is about trust.
- AI Tomorrow: The unknown-scenario mindset – examining the need for acceptable use policies, and development of data-driven risk management systems.

While there are obvious time-saving and cost-reducing benefits that many LLMs can offer, it’s crucial to maintain staunch awareness of the risks to your organization’s reputation, IP, and overall security posture, just from using an LLM.

The AI Elephant in Every Room

In our ever-evolving digital landscape, the fusion of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies has ushered in a new era of innovation and efficiency. However, as we step into 2024, we must also prepare for the darker side of this technological advancement -- the looming cybersecurity threats posed by both AI and ML.

This webinar will dissect the most recent trends and vulnerabilities that cybercriminals are likely to exploit using AI and ML techniques. From AI-driven social engineering attacks to ML-powered malware, we will explore the full spectrum of threats and discuss practical strategies to defend against them. With insights from real-world incidents and cutting-edge research, this webinar aims to equip individuals and organizations with the knowledge and tools needed to safeguard their digital assets and privacy in the face of evolving cyber threats driven by AI and ML technologies.

Will 2024 Bring Us a Year of AI and ML Threats?

For decades, security professionals have been managing the security of their data leveraging Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools.

However, contemporary teams are embracing a more holistic approach through the adoption of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM).  This webinar will explore DSPM, shedding light on its fundamental principles, its practical implications, and its pivotal role in modern cybersecurity.

Key takeaways include:

1) Understanding the Evolution: Discover the historical context of data security and how DSPM is reshaping the landscape.
2) Navigating Comprehensive Security: Explore the multifaceted aspects of DSPM and its application in achieving a robust data security posture.
3) Strategic Imperatives: Gain insights into why DSPM is not just a buzzword but an essential component for safeguarding data integrity in today's dynamic threat landscape.

Join Metomic CEO, Rich Vibert as he chats to Christopher Reed, CISO at SunFire, and Mackenzie Jackson, Developer Advocate at Git Guardian about the importance of DSPM, and why every business should have it in place.

From DLP to DSPM: Where are we Headed with Data Security Posture Management

The pace of the adoption of generative AI is set to eclipse nearly every other major technology introduction in the past two decades. As an inherently democratised technology usable by technical and non-technical users alike, security professionals are being challenged to leverage it as a tool – and view it as a threat. 
 
In this session, we will examine the defensive and offensive uses of generative AI, and attempt to predict what the future holds for the cybersecurity industry as we adjust to the rapidly growing "new normal". You will learn about: 
 
 • The emerging threat surface created and embodied by generative AI technologies
 • Ways that adversaries use and abuse generative AI, and possible defences
 • A simple way to classify AI workloads that you can easily apply
 • What the future holds for AI-backed security

Generative AI in Cyber Security: A Double-Edged Sword

Emotet, SocGholish and AgentTesla are amongst 2023’s top malware distributed by email messages.  Carl Leonard, Cybersecurity Strategist at Proofpoint, will take a look at what this means for those tasked with defending organisations like yours and how you might adapt based on these and other trends anticipated in the future threat landscape.  

Are you ready for changes in lure topics and threat delivery that seeks to exploit your employee’s willingness to read, click and otherwise interact with malicious payloads?  
How can you help your employees to help themselves and so not have cyber criminals help themselves to your employee’s credentials?

But threats to your organisation are not delivered solely by the external attacker – Carl will also touch on how employee behaviour can present risk to your critical data in terms of careless actions and malicious intent.

Understanding the most critical variable in today’s cyber threats – people.

The 2024 Threatscape

Companies at a senior leadership level recognize operational risk in the form of  their “Risk Appetite & Tolerance”, defined as “the amount and type of risk that an organisation is willing to take in order to meet their strategic objectives”. 

The question companies should ask themselves is how much can cybersecurity risks identified in the 2024 threat forecast impact organizations technology, and how can they communicate effectively what this means to their organizations' strategic objectives?

Tune into this session presented by disaster recovery and cyber resilience expert Steve Yates as he brings to light the operational risk considerations and resilience options for those “scary” technology moments which can cause organizations to face the Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption, or when an organization faces tough decisions, one of which may mean no choice but to close down!

By the end of the session, you will be able to:
- Be aware of The 2024 threat forecast and potential cybersecurity impacts on technology. 
- Form an understanding of the difficult language that must be used when dealing with the senior leadership team.
- Be conversant with a joined-up thinking approach when reviewing technology operational risk and identifying resilience measures.

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