Topic: Artificial Intelligence

Seminar Topics

[1 CPE] AI: Cybersecurity’s Double-Edged Sword

  Presented by Daniel Navarro, 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] Driving Successful AI Adoption in 2026

  Presented by Hunter Helfgott, Data & AI Consultant & Abram Erickson, Data & AI Solutions Architect • 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 2026: key trends and challenges teams are facing
  • Lessons learned in 2025: what worked, what did not, and what to do differently this year
  • 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 Jared Mensinger, Sr Solutions Engineer  • DigiCert

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

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

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

[1 CPE] Applied AI for Business: Turning Hype into Measurable Impact

  Presented by Greg Hatch, Sr Vice President, Strategic Growth • Gage Technologies

Despite widespread AI adoption in 2025–2026, only a small percentage of organizations are realizing significant business impact. This session cuts through the hype to clarify what AI truly is, explore the rise of generative and agentic AI, and highlight where real value is emerging—particularly in customer experience (CX) and security. Drawing on recent industry research and practical experience, we examine why many initiatives stall and what differentiates successful ones.

Participants will leave with a practical roadmap for AI success: aligning initiatives to clear business outcomes, assessing readiness, managing risks, and embedding security and governance from the start. The message is simple—AI transformation is less about the technology itself and more about strategy, data, leadership, and disciplined execution.

[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 CyberSec Workforce: Leading Through Change, Strengthening Collective Defense

  Presented by Frank J. Grimmelman, President & CEO, and Christian Taillon, Threat Intelligence Director • ACTRA

Cybersecurity is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The traditional security workforce model is being reshaped by automation, AI-driven operations, evolving skill requirements, hybrid work environments, and persistent talent shortages. At the same time, organizations are under increasing pressure to deliver measurable security outcomes faster, with fewer resources and greater accountability.

This session explores how leading organizations are adapting through workforce modernization, process transformation, and smarter operating models that maximize existing talent. It will also examine why collective defense has become an increasingly important force multiplier—enabling organizations to strengthen resilience through trusted collaboration, shared intelligence, and coordinated response.

Attendees will gain practical insights into how modern cybersecurity teams can overcome talent pressures, improve efficiency, and achieve stronger results in today’s rapidly evolving threat environment.

Mr. Frank J. Grimmelmann serves as President & CEO for the Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance (ACTRA), a non-profit entity that was developed collaboratively with the Arizona InfraGard Program, the FBI, USDHS and law enforcement, and independently launched in 2013 to enable its private/public sector member organizations across all critical sectors to enable themselves to respond to the escalating national cybersecurity threat.

[1 CPE] New Era of Deception: AI and Deepfakes

  Presented by Morgan Trust, Associate Penetration Tester, Offensive Services • FRSecure

Artificial Intelligence (Al) is significantly transforming social engineering tactics. Join Morgan Trust as he discusses the evolution of Al as a threat factor and how, by leveraging Al, attackers can automate and enhance phishing schemes, creating highly personalized and convincing messages that are more accurate and effective.

[1 CPE] AI Governance in Action: Building Policy, Oversight, and Trust in the Public Sector

  Presented by Matt Weber, Chief Information Security Officer, Pima County, AZ • The INTERFACE Advisory Council

As organizations race to adopt AI, effective governance is becoming essential. Join Matt Weber as he shares how Pima County developed a practical framework for AI governance, including the creation of an AI subcommittee and the implementation of an AI usage policy. Attendees will gain real-world insights, lessons learned, and actionable guidance they can use to establish or strengthen AI governance programs within their own organizations.

[1 CPE] Cybersecurity in the Era of Mythos

  Presented by Avi Mileguir, Global Head of Exposure Management • Check Point Software & Optiv

Explore the growing gap between cybersecurity perception and reality in an age defined by AI, automation, and increasingly sophisticated threats. Join Avi Mileguir, Global Head of Exposure Management, as he examines common security myths, emerging risks, and the strategies organizations can use to gain true visibility into their attack surface and make more informed risk decisions.

[1 CPE] The Enterprise Buyer’s Guide to AI Security Platforms

  Presented by Steven Alexander, Sales Engineer • Cato Networks

AI adoption is accelerating faster than security and governance, exposing organizations as sensitive data flows through copilots, LLM-powered apps, and agentic systems that legacy tools can’t properly protect. With a surge of AI security vendors entering the market, buying the right platform can be confusing. This presentation helps security leaders evaluate AI security solutions by clarifying the new risks AI creates, explaining the core pillars of AI security, and outlining how to compare platforms, ask the right questions, and avoid common buying mistakes.