Topic: Artificial Intelligence

Seminar Topics

[1 CPE] Driving Successful AI Adoption

  Presented by Hunter Helfgott, Data & AI Consultant, & Hayden Busic, Data & AI Product Manager • Cerium Networks

In this session, we’ll cover the critical steps organizations can take to adopt AI successfully this year, including proven strategies, common pitfalls, and practical frameworks to move from experimentation to enterprise-wide implementation. You’ll leave with actionable guidance to align AI initiatives with business goals, build organizational buy-in, and measure ROI in a way that lasts.

AI adoption is about making AI deliver real business outcomes without creating unnecessary risk, rework, or frustration.

What We’ll Cover

  • The state of AI adoption in mid-2026: key trends and challenges teams are facing
  • Lessons learned: what working, what doesn’t, and what to do differently going forward
  • A practical framework for successful AI adoption: from strategy to execution
  • Measuring success: KPIs, governance, and how to prove value over time

[1 CPE] Building Trust for What’s Next: PKI Modernization & Quantum Readiness

  Presented by Bryan Pitts, Solutions Engineer • DigiCert

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

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

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

[1 CPE] AI-Native Networking: From Reactive IT to Autonomous Operations

  Presented by William Admire, HPE AI for Networking Specialist SE • HPE

Traditional networks were designed for human troubleshooting. As environments scale and expectations rise, reactive operations and manual workflows no longer meet the needs of modern enterprises.

AI-Native Networking represents a fundamental architectural shift — where AI is not layered on top of infrastructure, but built into its foundation. By combining real-time telemetry, cloud-native microservices, and continuously trained models, AI-Native platforms move IT from reactive firefighting to autonomous operations.

The result: measurable improvements in user experience, reduced operational overhead, faster root-cause resolution, and infrastructure that continuously optimizes itself.

This session explores what it truly means to be AI-native, how it differs from legacy “AI-enhanced” approaches, and the business outcomes organizations are achieving by embracing this new model.

[1 CPE] The Speed of Trust: Why Your AI Strategy is Only as Fast as Your Security Architecture

  Presented by Bradley Mitchell and Olivia Geesen, Prisma SASE Specialists • Palo Alto Networks

In the race for AI dominance, many businesses are hitting the brakes as security struggles to keep up. We’re stuck in a “Fragmentation Tax,” managing endless siloed tools, to protect against prompt injections, shadow AI, and data exfiltration.

Prisma SASE specialists, Bradley Mitchell and Olivia Geesen, will discuss how organizations can approach these challenges including the benefits of a holistic platform strategy.

[1 CPE] The New AI Era in Cybersecurity: What it Means for Your Organization

  Presented by Jesus Lopez, Sales Engineer • ESET

This session explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the modern cyber threat landscape by empowering both attackers and defenders. It examines how adversaries use AI to scale attacks, evade detection, and increase their effectiveness. The presentation also highlights how organizations can leverage AI to build proactive, adaptive defenses that detect and respond to threats more efficiently. Finally, it showcases how ESET applies AI-driven technologies to protect against evolving cyber-attacks and strengthen overall security resilience.

[1 CPE] Why Layered Identity Defense Is the Best Offense

  Presented by Sean Deuby, Principal Technologist, Americas • Semperis

Cyberattackers are adept at finding ways through your defenses and into identity systems like Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta, and endpoint defenses won’t stop them. From there, they can move laterally, escalate privileges, access sensitive data and resources, and inject malware or ransomware.

AI has supercharged these attacks through automation and making it easy for unsophisticated actors to execute sophisticated attacks. One consistent lesson has come from experiences with frontier AI models and agents: identity protection has become even more important than it already was.

Implementing a layered defense that includes identity threat detection and response (ITDR) and robust identity recovery is key to true cyber resilience.

[1 CPE] Agents Inherit Your Debt: Governing AI Agents Against the Risks Security Tools Won’t Catch

  Presented by Dr. Ken Knapton

Agentic AI introduces new risks into your enterprise, some of which won’t be detected by security tools and controls. For example, there isn’t a patch for indirect prompt injection – it is an authority that is granted to the agent. This session covers how the attack chain works, why your existing stack stays quiet through all five steps, and a six-rule governance model (mapped to ISO/IEC 42001) that bounds what an agent may read, do, and send.

We will also discuss the data debt and tech debt that your agents inherit. Duplicated data, systems you never retired, and years of unrevoked access all become executable at machine speed. You’ll leave with a 90-day plan that requires decisions rather than budget.

Dr. Ken Knapton is a veteran CIO, CISO, author, and educator with deep experience leading technology, cybersecurity, and data strategy in complex organizations. A seven-time CIO, he has guided businesses through operational risk, cyber risk, and the challenges that come with emerging technologies. He holds a doctorate in big data governance, advanced degrees in strategic IT leadership and business administration, and maintains CISSP and C|CISO certifications. In addition to his executive leadership work, he serves as an analyst and adjunct research advisor for IDC’s IT Executive Programs and teaches graduate cybersecurity courses. As the author of Unveiling Tech Debt and Cyber Safety, Dr. Knapton is known for translating technical risk into practical leadership action, with a particular focus on AI, governance, and the safe adoption of technology in the workplace.

[1 CPE] Keep Your Eye on the Lady (AI): Securing and Governing AI Systems

  Presented by Marc Cressall, CISSP, President • ISC2 Salt Lake City

In a three-card monte game, the audience watches the lady (the card) and misses the move (the sleight of hand). The same thing is happening in AI security right now: teams are fixated on what the AI can do — the capability, the demo, the agent — while the real attack surface happens in the move: the data it’s trained on, the prompts it trusts, the permissions it holds, the outputs it’s allowed to act on.

What we cover:

  • Why “AI security theater” is the new compliance theater — green dashboards, checkbox governance, and visible controls that don’t stop real risk
  • The three-card monte of AI: misdirection (watching the model), sleight of hand (unexamined agent permissions), audience management (performing for auditors), and the illusion of safety (false confidence from visible measures)
  • A live demonstration of the misdirection — watch the capability, miss the attack surface
  • The “Reclaim Reality” framework applied to AI: shift from compliance to capability, eliminate performative friction, foster a no-fault transparency culture, and measure reality (detection/response time, actual coverage) instead of appearance

Takeaways attendees walk away with:

  • A framework to spot AI security theater in their own programs
  • A Monday-morning checklist to audit their AI/agent attack surface
  • A practical path from checkbox governance to real AI security capability

[1 CPE] Attackers Aren’t Breaking In, They’re Logging In

  Presented by Jenna Barry, Product Marketing Manager • CyberFOX

Access is the attack surface. Every security framework comes back to the same four fundamental access controls: privilege, credentials, network, and destinations. The problem is that these controls were designed for organizations with dedicated security teams, while lean IT teams are left to operate them with limited time, people, and resources.

This session breaks down what access actually looks like in practice: what a single credential can reach, why AI agents can inherit the same permissions you have, and why proving who had access matters more than simply describing your controls.

[1 CPE] How to Not Suck at Cybersecurity… in the Age of AI

  Presented by Vincent Romney • Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Nu Skin & Pharmanex

AI isn’t fixing cybersecurity. It’s accelerating it… for good or bad. In this keynote, Vincent Romney, author of How to Not Suck at Cybersecurity, breaks down why organizations continue to struggle with the same core security problems, and how AI is about to make those problems happen faster, at scale. Blending real-world experience, practical guidance, and a healthy dose of snark, Vincent cuts through the hype around AI to show where it actually helps, where it fails, and where it can quietly create new risks. You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of how to strengthen your fundamentals, use AI without losing control, and avoid the uncomfortable truth: if your security already sucks… AI helps you suck faster.

Vincent Romney is a cybersecurity executive, author, and “snark-fueled” advocate for doing security right. As Deputy CISO at Nu Skin Enterprises, he has spent over two decades designing and leading security programs across cloud, application, and enterprise environments, including building AI governance and threat modeling frameworks in complex global organizations.

A former Air Force cyber warfare specialist, Vincent combines real-world offensive and defensive experience with a practical approach to security leadership. He is the author of How to Not Suck at Cybersecurity, where he breaks down security fundamentals into clear, actionable steps that scale from individuals to enterprise environments. His speaking style blends technical depth, real-world examples, and humor to help audiences cut through hype, focus on what actually matters, and avoid making expensive mistakes.