Topic: Information Security

Seminar Topics

[1 CPE] LIVE Hack: Unmasking AI’s Dark Side

  Presented by Wayne Johnson, CEO • Stellar

In this eye-opening presentation, we will delve into the darker applications of artificial intelligence, specifically focusing on its potential to craft malicious code and generate deceptive voice replicas. As AI continues to evolve, its capabilities extend beyond beneficial innovations, posing significant ethical and security challenges. This session aims to shed light on how AI can be manipulated to perform nefarious tasks, such as writing harmful software or impersonating voices with high accuracy. Through live demonstrations and critical discussions, we aim to equip the audience with a comprehensive understanding of these risks and foster a dialogue on developing robust countermeasures and ethical guidelines to prevent misuse of AI technologies. Join us as we explore the shadowy corners of AI applications, understanding their implications and preparing for a secure technological future.

[1 CPE] Securing the Hyperconnected World in the AI Era

  Presented by Grant Asplund, Security Evangelist • Check Point

The AI revolution is fundamentally transforming cybersecurity, while the future of networking evolves toward Hybrid Full Mesh—integrating 5G, WiFi, Ethernet, Fiber, and other network infrastructures. This presentation examines how AI is accelerating cyber threats: attack costs are skyrocketing, incidents surging 50% year-over-year, and ransomware development compressed from nine days to mere minutes*. We’ll explore why Hybrid SASE (not cloud-only) forms the core of an effective hybrid full-mesh security architecture and how organizations can respond when the rate of change and complexity outpace their capabilities. Most importantly, we’ll demonstrate why security isn’t just a feature but the essential foundation of operations in this new era of hyperconnected vulnerability.

*Source: 2025 Check Point Research, CyberInt, Cybercrime Magazine, IBM, SAN

[1 CPE] Don’t Build a Fire Department

  Presented by Tom Simonis, Sr Sales Engineer, Enterprise US • Arctic Wolf

Building and maintaining an internal SOC operation is hard. We’ll discuss why it’s imperative that organizations lean on 3rd party partners to provide 24×7 monitoring across your collective attack surfaces.

[1 CPE] Don’t Build a Fire Department

  Presented by Matt Martin, Sr Sales Engineer, Large Enterprise • Arctic Wolf

Building and maintaining an internal SOC operation is hard. We’ll discuss why it’s imperative that organizations lean on 3rd party partners to provide 24×7 monitoring across your collective attack surfaces.

[1 CPE] Achieving Ransomware Resilience and Disaster Recovery in a Multi-Cloud World

  Presented by Ken Smallwood, Systems Engineer • Zerto

Discover how to achieve an always-on 24/7 business, ensuring that customers and stakeholders can expect uninterrupted access to their data and applications. Learn how to solve for Ransomware Resilience, Disaster Recovery, and Multi-Cloud mobility for virtualized environments, with continuous data protection (CDP) for any app, any cloud, and any threat. With the right solutions in place, your organization can seamlessly protect critical data and applications, mitigate the risk of ransomware attacks, and maintain business continuity.

Explore strategies for achieving ransomware resilience, automated disaster recovery planning and testing, and flexible hybrid-cloud capabilities that allow you to move applications and scale capacity on demand. By integrating comprehensive data protection measures, you can ensure compliance with regulatory mandates and provide robust resilience against evolving cyber threats. This approach empowers your IT team to focus on strategic initiatives by reducing the burden of manual recovery processes and ensuring rapid restoration of operations.

[1 CPE] Cybersecurity and Compliance For 2025

  Presented by Rob Wayt, Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance • Structured

The cybersecurity regulatory compliance landscape has never been more complicated, and this presentation will provide information and updates to CMMC, GLBA, PCI, TSA, generative AI, and security best practices. Presented by Rob Wayt, Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance at Structured, this discussion will focus on security solutions to these challenges, including penetration testing and zero-trust implementations.

[1 CPE] Modern Security: Quantum Computing, AI, and External Key Management in the Cloud

  Presented by Thales

In this presentation, we will explore the emerging data threats posed by quantum computing and artificial intelligence and discuss their implications for data security. We will also delve into the advantages of external key management for cloud data, examining various strategies for protection, including encryption.

Join us to gain insights into the latest advancements in data security and learn how to safeguard your data against evolving threats.

[1 CPE] AI-Backed Cybersecurity Threats Require AI-Backed Solutions

  Presented by Chris Blanding, Public Sector Security Sales Specialist • Juniper Networks

Context: Supported by AI, cybersecurity threat actors are accelerating both the speed and breadth of attacks. Every indicator, from increasing click rates on phishing emails to shrinking attacker breakout times suggests a sea change in the threat landscape. Consequently, integration and AI/ML-backed automation across a layered cybersecurity stack is more important than ever. Historically, cybersecurity solutions were developed to address specific threats. Consequently, as the number and diversity of threats grew the number and complexity of cybersecurity solutions in the system enterprise also grew, driving complexity, slowing response times, and ultimately reducing efficacy. SIEM, SOAR, and XDR platforms were developed to visualize cybersecurity telemetry across the system enterprise, investigate, and respond to threats. While these solutions greatly improved visibility and response they are unable to respond quickly and efficiently enough to stop AI-backed threats.

Approach: In addition to the broad adoption of layered security services providing visibility across the system enterprise, the solution is to leverage a strategically integrated, AI/ML-backed, enterprise security stack that accelerates detection and automates response.

Implications: While an integrated, AI-backed enterprise security stack will allow enterprises to stay ahead of cyber risk the impact on the system enterprise is far greater. By integrating security into the broad enterprise stack, you will mature network, application, and data visibility creating opportunities for more granular, targeted SLAs that ultimately impact uptime, quality of service, flexibility and speed. That makes businesses more competitive and public entities more responsive to citizens.

[1 CPE] Security First AI-Powered Networking

  Presented by Jim Galiardi, System Engineering Manager • HPE Aruba Networking

Innovations in network visibility and telemetry now allow the network to be more than just plumbing. By actively participating in your zero-trust strategy the network can now offer additional insights and methods to protect users and data on and off the network. AI/ML will be the key to managing the wealth of telemetry now available, dynamically applying policy, and the beginnings of self-aware/self-healing networks.

[1 CPE] AI in Cybersecurity: Navigating the New Frontier of Cyber Defense

  Presented by Devin Johnstone, Security Operations Consultant • Palo Alto Networks

In an era where cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, traditional security measures are often insufficient. Devin Johnstone, Security Operations Domain Consultant at Palo Alto Networks with vast experience in network security, threat intelligence, and cloud security will delve into the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in modern cybersecurity. Attendees will gain insights into how AI enhances threat detection, enables proactive defense strategies, and addresses the evolving landscape of cyber threats. The discussion will also cover the benefits and challenges associated with integrating AI into cybersecurity frameworks, providing a comprehensive overview of how AI is shaping the future of cyber defense.

Devin has spent over a decade in the trenches of a Security Operations Center and is passionate about sharing his lived experience in building a successful SecOps team from the ground up. 8 years ago, he joined Palo Alto Networks to begin architecting the internal SOC and went on to lead the development of the Security Automation, Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk, and Customer Outreach programs.

Devin has had the opportunity to advise thousands of security teams, big and small, in their security operations journeys through media, tours of Palo Alto Networks SOC facility, and at events in 7 countries. He has since moved into a Consultant role to help customers accelerate their realization of “the art of the possible”: AI-enabled security operations strategies prepared for whatever the future brings.