Presented by Matt Moss, Sr Sales Engineer • ESET
Explore the key cybersecurity trends shaping H1 2025 in North America. This session covers headline threats including fake error scams (ClickFix), evolving ransomware tactics, and the rise of NFC malware. Gain actionable insights to strengthen your security posture.
Presented by Matthew Ziegler, Director of Advisory and Success, MBA, CISSP, CISA • Novacoast
Too often, organizations see governance and compliance as a means to an end: passing an audit, gaining a certification, or filing a report. Really, these are just the start of the Information Security journey. In this session, we’ll explore how leaders can move beyond “checkbox compliance” by aligning governance with real-world risk, embedding security into culture, and using frameworks like PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NIST CSF 2.0, and CMMC as foundations for continuous improvement rather than static achievements. Drawing from real-world experience leading global SOCs, audits, and board-level risk programs, I’ll share strategies for changing direction from compliance-driven to resilience-focused, and how to communicate these strategies to executives, regulators, and staff.
Presented by Rob Ingenthron, Sr Solution Engineer • Semperis
Cyberattackers are adept at finding ways through your defenses and into identity systems like Active Directory. Many organizations use Active Directory as the primary identity service, and Active Directory is typically tied into almost everything, including Entra ID. From there, they can move laterally, escalate privileges, access sensitive resources, and inject malware or ransomware. Implementing a layered defense that includes identity threat detection and response (ITDR) is key to protecting your operational resilience.
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Presented by Morgan Trust, Associate Penetration Tester • FRSecure
Explore how artificial intelligence is fueling a new wave of cyber deception through deep fakes, social engineering, and dark web activity. In this session, Morgan Trust, Associate Penetration Tester at FRSecure, will uncover real-world examples and emerging threats while offering strategies to spot and defend against them. Gain the knowledge you need to navigate this evolving landscape with confidence.
As an Associate Penetration Tester at FRSecure, Morgan brings five years of experience and holds both the eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester and CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 certifications to the table. Morgan is an extremely valuable asset to the team who works directly on the front lines with FRSecure’s clients. In his free time, Morgan enjoys Capture the Flag competitions, weightlifting, cooking/baking, dancing, listening to music at max volume, hiking, thrifting, and spending time with family.
Presented by Tony Taylor, Sr Solutions Architect • Horizon3.ai
Join Tony Taylor, Senior Solutions Architect, for an engaging session on “Offense-Driven Defense.” Tony will challenge conventional risk assessment practices and unveil how focusing on real-world exploitability and impact can revolutionize your security approach. Drawing from insights gathered across more than 170,000 autonomous pentests, he’ll share compelling stories and actionable lessons that show how viewing your cyber terrain through an attacker’s lens can uncover hidden vulnerabilities, optimize resource allocation, and strengthen your defenses against advanced threats. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a leading industry practitioner on why it’s time to “go hack yourself” and build resilience in today’s borderless threat environment.
Presented by Alex Ruff, Principal Solutions Engineer • Trend Micro
AI is transforming the enterprise—bringing new opportunities for efficiency, but also introducing unprecedented risks. From prompt injection and model poisoning to shadow AI and deepfakes, the attack surface is evolving faster than most IT teams can keep up. In this session, we’ll explore Trend Micro’s Security for AI Blueprint, a step-by-step framework for protecting data, models, infrastructure, and users in an AI-driven world. You’ll also see how Trend Micro leverages AI across its own cybersecurity platform, combining decades of research with modern generative AI to deliver proactive protection. Walk away with practical strategies you can apply to safeguard your organization’s AI initiatives—without putting innovation on hold.
Presented by Sukesh Garg, Vice President of Products • Nile
Many organizations still manage and secure their campus and branch networks based on a trust model designed for days past — a fragile web of switches, controllers, and security tools stitched together, never designed to secure IoT, sophisticated malware, and evolving AI threats.
The result is operational chaos, well-known vulnerabilities, and the constant feeling that something is missing. In this session, we’ll outline how leading enterprises are shifting to a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) with completely re-designed architecture that’s built on top of modern Zero Trust Fabric — where Zero Trust security is delivered on day one. No complexity, add-ons, or legacy vulnerabilities.
With Nile, every user and device is isolated by design, micro-segmentation and granular policies provide enhanced identity-based enforcement — without the cost, complexity, and traditional risk.
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Presented by Joe Fontes, Sales Engineer, PNW • Cato Networks
This discussion highlights the current threat landscape associated with current AI tools and how those same foundational technologies can be used to automate threat responses. We will delve into an understanding of current adversaries, an overview of existing defenses, and strategies on extending current defense postures.
Presented by Fortinet
This will be a panel discussion on how organizations can effectively bridge Zero Trust and SASE to create a unified, adaptive cybersecurity architecture that meets the demands of today’s hybrid workforce and threat landscape.
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Presented by JR Silverthorne, Partner Solutions Consultant, West • Palo Alto Networks
So many industry players want to speak to and about tool consolidation and a platformization play in the cybersecurity space. We want to examine the classical SOC model and turn it on its head and reveal how a suite of capabilities enable root cause analysis, risk context, correlation, and automation across an open platform that accepts the widest and largest variety of data sources from the endpoint to the data center to the cloud. Our approach –– Xtended Security Intelligence Automation Management.
If your interest is in achieving the lowest MTTR and MTTD, if you want to detect security incidents and remediate faster, then your path forward has to unify workflows, utilize embedded intelligence, and provide automated responses. Let us show you how Palo Alto with 20,000 employees operates their SOC with just 15 people.