AI for Next-Gen SOC

Official Cybersecurity Summit

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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST

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Modern financial threatscape cybersecurity is critical as financial institutions face advanced threats targeting data, transactions, and customer trust.

Admission to the Cybersecurity Summit is reserved exclusively for active cybersecurity, IT, and information security practitioners responsible for safeguarding their enterprises against cyber threats and managing cybersecurity solutions. All registrations are subject to review. For full details CLICK HERE

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Smarter Defense: Harnessing AI to Supercharge the SOC

The volume and velocity of alerts overwhelm human analysts, while adversaries themselves weaponize AI to automate attacks. SOC teams need machine learning and intelligent orchestration to keep pace and focus on what matters.

This eSummit explores how AI transforms detection, investigation, and response. Through keynotes and fireside chats, experts will demonstrate how to operationalize AI within SIEM, SOAR, and EDR ecosystems — reducing fatigue, improving accuracy, and elevating the SOC’s strategic value.

Featured Speakers

Rick Vanover

Vice President,
Product Strategy
Veeam

Mike Nelson

VP, Field CTO
Digicert

Ori Bendet

VP of Product
Management
Checkmarx

Gavin Hill

VP of Product
Marketing
Huntress Labs

David Dalling

GVP, Global Cyber
Strategy
Splunk

Key Issues Covered at The Official Cybersecurity Summit

Top 6 Reasons to Attend the Cybersecurity Summit

Learn

Learn from renowned experts from around the globe on how to protect & defend your business from cyber attacks during interactive panels & fast track discussions.

Evaluate Demonstrations

Evaluate and see demonstrations from dozens of cutting-edge cybersecurity solution providers that can best protect your enterprise from the latest threats.

Time, Travel & Money

Our mission is to bring the cyber summit to the decisionmakers in the nation’s top cities. Our events are limited to one day only and are produced within first-class hotels, not convention centers.

Engage, Network, Socialize & Share

Engage, network, socialize and share with hundreds of fellow business leaders, cybersecurity experts, C-Suite executives, and entrepreneurs. All attendees are pre-screened and approved in advance. On-site attendance is limited in order to maintain an intimate environment conducive to peer-to-peer interaction and learning.

CEUs / CPE Credits

By attending a full day at the Cybersecurity Summit, you will receive a certificate granting you Continuing Education Units (CEU) or Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits. To earn these credits you must participate for the entire summit and confirm your attendance at the end of the day.

A Worthwhile Investment

By investing one day at the summit you may save your company millions of dollars, avoid stock devaluation, and potential litigation.

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Admission to the Cybersecurity Summit is reserved exclusively for active cybersecurity, IT, Information security practitioners tasked with safeguarding their enterprises against cyber threats and managing cybersecurity solutions. All registrations are subject to review.
 
Additionally, if we are unable to verify your identity with the information you provided during registration, your attendance may be cancelled.
 
Please note these qualifications pertain to all attendees, including members of our partner organizations.

Agenda

The Official Cybersecurity Summit delivers high-impact sessions designed to help leaders strengthen resilience, protect critical infrastructure, and align security with business goals.

Attendees will gain actionable insights from expert panels, explore cutting-edge solutions, and connect directly with top industry innovators – making this a can’t-miss agenda for CISOs and security executives.

Opening Keynote

Extrahop Presentation - The Agentic Reckoning: Rebuilding SOC, NOC, and VOC for a Post-Mythos World

The skill floor for serious cyberattacks has collapsed. AI agents write phishing campaigns in seconds, reverse-engineer vulnerabilities from public patch commits before maintainers disclose, and run full offensive operations without a human at the wheel. No Mythos access required, just the patch. SOC, NOC, and VOC teams are losing ground fast. This session covers what’s actually working in today’s post-Mythos threat landscape: agentic architectures deployed with real customers over the past year, with production cost figures and field lessons from the teams that built them.

Paul Giorgi

VP Global Sales Engineering
ExtraHop Networks

Innovation Spotlight - Google Cloud: Managing Cybersecurity Threats in the AI Era.

This session explores an overview of recent Cybersecurity Threats and how security leaders can move towards a reimagined operating model, where autonomous response capabilities compress detection-to-containment timelines. Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of where AI delivers immediate ROI, where human judgment remains irreplaceable, and how to build the governance guardrails that keep autonomous systems accountable.

Josh Iroko

Managing Consultant
Google Cloud

Panel 1: From Alert Flood to Signal: Using AI to Triage, Correlate, and Prioritize What Matters

SOC teams don’t have an alert problem—they have a decision problem. This panel explores how AI and machine learning can reduce noise and elevate signal by clustering related activity, enriching context, prioritizing business impact, and routing the right work to the right humans. Panelists will share practical lessons on tuning models without breaking trust, reducing false positives without missing stealthy behavior, and proving that “AI triage” improves outcomes—not just dashboard aesthetics.

V. Venesulia Carr

CEO
Vicar Group, LLC
Moderator

Cynthia Overby

Director, GTM Strategic Security Solutions
Rocket Software

Ori Bendet

VP of Product Management Checkmarx

Gavin Hill

VP of Product Marketing
Huntress Labs

Christoph Nagy

Co-Founder & Board Director
Security Bridge

Michael Monte

VP of Customer Success
Anvilogic

Lunch

Censys Presentation: AI Bedrock: Building a High-Fidelity Data Foundation for the Next-Generation SOC

AI copilots and autonomous agents are rapidly entering the SOC, yet many teams see little improvement in investigation speed or analyst efficiency. The challenge isn’t necessarily the AI—it’s the data. This session explores why high-fidelity security data has become the foundation for successful AI-driven operations. Using real-world SOC examples, we’ll examine how authoritative internet intelligence, contextual enrichment, and historical visibility help AI systems reduce false assumptions, improve investigation outcomes, and minimize costly token consumption. Attendees will leave with a framework for evaluating their own security data foundation and practical guidance for enabling more effective AI-assisted detection, triage, and response.

Alexander Gartner

Principal Technical Product Lead
Censys

Innovation Spotlight - Google Cloud: Securing FinServ at Machine Speed with Intent-Based AI

As AI agents become part of everyday enterprise workflows, SOC teams are facing a new challenge: securing systems that don’t behave predictably. Traditional runtime security was designed for deterministic applications, where expected behavior is clearly defined and anomalies stand out. AI agents change that model.

In this session, we’ll explore how security teams are using AI to improve runtime detection and response in the era of non-determinisitc applications. We’ll break down how AI-powered context and analysis strengthen visibility across three layers of runtime security, helping teams detect threats in environments where behavior constantly evolves. The result is a detection approach built for modern systems, adaptive, contextual, and designed for the realities of AI-driven infrastructure.

Tal Moriah

Product Marketing Manager
Wiz

Shashank Golla

Senior Product Marketing Manager
Wiz

Panel 2: AI-In-The-Loop Investigation: Faster Root Cause Without Sacrificing Rigor

Investigation is where time disappears—pivoting across logs, assembling timelines, validating hypotheses, and documenting actions. This panel focuses on AI-assisted investigation that speeds up root-cause analysis while keeping analysts in control: narrative timeline generation, natural-language querying across telemetry, guided hunts, and automated enrichment that preserves evidence quality. We’ll also tackle the pitfalls—hallucinations, overconfident summaries, missing context—and how to build checks and workflows that keep investigations defensible.

V. Venesulia Carr

CEO
Vicar Group, LLC
Moderator

Rick Vanover

Vice President, Product Strategy
Veeam

Husnain Bajwa

SVP, Product - Risk Solutions
SEON

Mike Nelson

VP, Field CTO
Digicert

Chris Hosking

Principal AI & Cloud Security Evangelist
SentinelOne

Suresh Katukam

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer
Nile

Exaforce Presentation: State of AI SOC 2026: Signals from the Frontlines

The MDR market hits $9.6B in 2025, yet 69% of SOCs still run manual processes, and 61% admit to ignoring alerts that later caused breaches. Something is broken. Aqsa Taylor shares unfiltered signals from CISO conversations and a study of real implementations on where AI SOC is actually delivering, where it isn’t, and why the real debate is about who owns the failure when it’s wrong. Spoiler: your current MDR contract doesn’t answer that.

Aqsa Taylor

Technical Evangelist
Exaforce

Rubrik Presentation: The Crime Scene Is in Your Backups — What Can They Tell You?

Most organizations treat backup and recovery as an IT function that security teams don’t need to think about. That assumption is costing them. Recovery infrastructure has a unique third-party visibility into the full lifecycle of an attack. Unfortunately, it can often be a part of the blast radius itself, and most aren’t built to survive that, let alone surface intelligence across the multiple blind spots your SOC can’t close on its own. The right recovery infrastructure doesn’t just protect your data, it changes what your SOC can see.      

Every time Rubrik protects your data, it’s quietly building a forensic record your SOC has never had access to. Attacker movement. Credential anomalies. Malware within EDR blind spots. Encrypted file spread. It’s all there and regularly captured, mapped precisely, and surfaced automatically through Rubrik’s Preemptive Recovery Engine.      

In this session, we’ll show you how to close those blind spots. You’ll see how Rubrik’s Preemptive Recovery Engine maps attacker activity, identifies clean recovery points, and feeds enriched forensic context directly into your SOC workflow; filling gaps your other tools simply can’t reach. This ensures your team spends less time reconstructing what happened and more time stopping it from happening again. With Rubrik, your backups have already been doing the work. It’s time to start surfacing the intel from the crime scene.

Brian Knudtston

Senior Technical Marketing Manger
Rubrik

Innovation Spotlight - Red Canary, a Zscaler company: Rethinking Agentic SecOps with Red Canary & Zscaler

AI agents are transforming every department in the enterprise, bringing both innovation and new risk. Security is no exception, and AI is accelerating SOC modernization. Leaders now face a strategic choice: not whether to adopt agentic capabilities, but how to do it without disrupting critical operations. Join us for a presentation on the future of Agentic SecOps. We’ll explore how Red Canary and Zscaler can act as a force multiplier for your team by bringing proactive and reactive security together.  

What we’ll cover:  

•  How context helps you prioritize risk and focus on what matters most

•  Why network visibility fills key gaps that endpoint-only views can miss

•  What agentic SecOps enables: faster correlation, triage, and response at scale

Alex Spiliotes

Senior Manager
Red Canary, a Zscaler company

Panel 3: Autonomous Response and SOAR 2.0: Safe Automation, Strong Governance, Real Containment

Automation can shrink containment time from hours to minutes—but the blast radius of a bad playbook is real. This panel looks at how AI is changing SOAR and response orchestration: smarter playbook selection, adaptive containment, and dynamic ticketing and communications. Panelists will cover how to design “safe automation” with policy guardrails, approvals, rollback plans, and continuous testing—plus how to integrate response automation across endpoint, identity, cloud, and network controls without creating new fragility.

V. Venesulia Carr

CEO
Vicar Group, LLC
Moderator

David Dalling

GVP, Global Cyber Strategy
Splunk

Ruchika Agicha

Cyber and Risk Advisor
Grant Thornton

Avi Shua

Chief Innovation Officer
Orca Security

BlinkOps Presentation: The AI SOC Operating Model

For two decades, the market chipped away at the SOC’s oldest pain points: alert volume, context sprawl, institutional knowledge, and response bottlenecks. AI is the most capable attempt yet, and like every wave before it, we make real progress while introducing a new class of failure modes: unconstrained agent behavior, unverified reasoning, sobering economics at scale, evolved attack surfaces, and amplified governance woes. Most SOCs have coverage for the old problems and major gaps for the new. This session presents an AI SOC operating model built on patterns that scope what agents can do and verify what they conclude, while thinking about the governance layers the industry is still pioneering. Attendees will leave with practical insights for deploying agentic SOC capabilities while engineering down the risks they introduce.

Andrew Dayton

Principal Security Strategist
BlinkOps

Closing Keynote

Speakers

Our speakers bring unmatched expertise and real-world experience in cybersecurity, risk management, and business strategy. Through engaging keynotes, panels, and discussions, they deliver actionable insights and practical solutions that help CISOs and security leaders stay ahead of evolving threats.

Ruchika Agicha

Cyber and Risk Advisor
Grant Thornton

Husnain Bajwa

SVP, Product - Risk Solutions
SEON

Ori Bendet

VP of Product Management Checkmarx

David Dalling

GVP, Global Cyber Strategy
Splunk

Andrew Dayton

Principal Security Strategist
BlinkOps

Alexander Gartner

Principal Technical Product Lead
Censys

Paul Giorgi

VP Global Sales Engineering
ExtraHop Networks

Shashank Golla

Senior Product Marketing Manager
Wiz

Gavin Hill

VP of Product Marketing
Huntress Labs

Chris Hosking

Principal AI & Cloud Security Evangelist
SentinelOne

Josh Iroko

Managing Consultant
Google Cloud

Suresh Katukam

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer
Nile

Brian Knudtston

Senior Technical Marketing Manger
Rubrik

Michael Monte

VP of Customer Success
Anvilogic

Tal Moriah

Product Marketing Manager
Wiz

Christoph Nagy

Co-Founder & Board Director
Security Bridge

Mike Nelson

VP, Field CTO
Digicert

Cynthia Overby

Director, GTM Strategic Security Solutions
Rocket Software

Avi Shua

Chief Innovation Officer
Orca Security

Alex Spiliotes

Senior Manager
Red Canary, a Zscaler company

V. Venesulia Carr

CEO
Vicar Group, LLC

Alexandra Tarabour

Founder
The Pattern Laboratory

Steve Taylor

Solutions Engineer
Sublime Security

V. Venesulia Carr

CEO
Vicar Group, LLC

Sponsors

The Official Cybersecurity Summit connects innovative solution providers with the cybersecurity leaders who evaluate and influence purchasing decisions. With a dynamic exhibition hall and a packed agenda of interactive panels and engaging sessions, this event offers unmatched opportunities to showcase solutions and build meaningful connections.

These strategies highlight how modern financial threatscape cybersecurity helps protect data, secure transactions, and maintain trust in digital finance.

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Partners

The Cybersecurity Summit is proud to partner with some of the industry’s most respected organizations in technology, information security, and business leadership.

Admission to the Cybersecurity Summit is reserved exclusively for active cybersecurity, IT, Information security practitioners tasked with safeguarding their enterprises against cyber threats and managing cybersecurity solutions. All registrations are subject to review.

Students, interns, educators, individuals not currently employed in IT, and those in sales or marketing roles are not eligible to attend.

Additionally, if we are unable to verify your identity with the information you provided during registration, your attendance may be cancelled.

Please note these qualifications pertain to all attendees, including members of our partner organizations.