Agenda

Cybercriminals are increasingly weaponizing artificial intelligence, fundamentally altering the cybersecurity landscape. To stay ahead of these evolving risks, organizations must transition to an “Agentic” defense strategy. Discover how to establish the groundwork for AI-driven security agents capable of neutralizing threats at machine speed, and how Google can help you in this mission.

This session explores how human behavior in digital environments directly shapes modern cyber risk. Drawing from the research of forensic cyberpsychologist and author Mary Aiken, this talk reveals why people think, react, trust, click, overshare, and make decisions differently online — and how attackers exploit those predictable patterns. Participants will learn how digital psychology influences threat exposure, identity compromise, misinformation, social engineering, and organizational security culture. Attendees will walk away with practical, human-centered strategies for building safer digital environments and strengthening security programs by aligning controls with real human behavior.

This presentation explains why cybersecurity in manufacturing is no longer an IT only concern, but a direct threat to production continuity, safety, and revenue. As digital transformation and Industry 4.0 initiatives increase connectivity between IT and operational technology (OT), cyber risk now extends directly to the plant floor. The session provides executives with a practical, business-aligned approach to managing OT cyber risk using proven frameworks such as the Purdue Model and ISA/IEC 62443. Attendees will learn how to assess OT risk in operational terms, gain visibility into vulnerable industrial assets, and apply segmentation strategies that reduce blast radius without disrupting production. The presentation also demonstrates how to translate technical risk into financial and operational impact to secure board and CEO support for investment.

Designed for CEOs, CISOs, CIOs, and manufacturing leaders, the session bridges governance and execution, enabling organizations to strengthen operational resilience while safely accelerating digital transformation across manufacturing and distribution environments.

While many organizations invest in SSO and MFA, attackers increasingly bypass these controls using compromised accounts or synthetic identities. In an AI-accelerated threat landscape, identity security must evolve toward continuous, signal-driven trust. Using lessons from LinkedIn and Oracle Health Sciences, this session outlines how to layer a “trust signals” service on top of existing IAM to continuously evaluate identity actions. This talk breaks down three signal families: authenticity, credibility of roles, and behavioral uniqueness. Attendees will walk away with concrete design patterns and a roadmap for integrating continuous trust scores into access decisions across web apps, APIs, and admin tools without compromising the user experience.

In the modern Security Operations Center (SOC), the sheer volume of alerts can often obscure genuine threats. One of the primary drivers of this “noise” is the difficulty in distinguishing between truly vulnerable code and persistent false positives. This session explores the critical delta between these two states and examines how a deep understanding of secure coding standards can streamline triage. By aligning SOC operations with robust development practices, security teams can significantly reduce alert fatigue, improve detection accuracy, and foster a more proactive defense posture.

Smart contracts are neither sentient nor inherently legal; they are deterministic programs bound by code. This session strips away marketing myths to examine the functional reality of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), utilizing the metaphor of a “transparent vending machine” to illustrate what these programs can—and cannot—verify. We will trace the transaction lifecycle from digital signatures to state updates, while analyzing high-profile security failures like the WazirX breach and Lazarus Group laundering tactics. Participants will learn why immutability preserves bugs as perfectly as rules through a hands-on lab deploying a “Dead Man’s Switch” in Remix.

The goal of this session is not to predict the future. It’s to identify the engineering and security practices that are proving valuable regardless of which AI model wins, what capabilities emerge next, or how the threat landscape evolves.

Rather than focusing on speculation, we’ll focus on what works in practice today. From ephemeral infrastructure and secure software supply chains to AI-assisted security testing, segmentation, zero trust, and visibility, this session will provide practical steps organizations can take now to improve resilience, limit blast radius, and prepare for an increasingly AI-powered world.