Wednesday, April 22, 2026
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST
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The Modern Financial Threatscape: Defending Data, Trust, and Transactions
Financial institutions are under siege from fraud rings, advanced phishing, and deepfake-enabled social engineering — all while navigating expanding regulatory demands and customer expectations for seamless digital access. Security leaders need clear strategies that balance innovation with compliance and trust.
The FinSec eSummit convenes CISOs, regulators, and fraud experts to share best practices in secure digital transformation, zero-trust adoption, and AI-powered anomaly detection. Through keynotes and panels, participants will learn how to harden financial systems against disruption while aligning cybersecurity with business resilience.
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Learn from renowned experts from around the globe on how to protect & defend your business from cyber attacks during interactive panels & fast track discussions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
- 11:00-11:05 EST
Opening Keynote with J.D. Miller
J.D. Miller
SVP, Communities Event Programming
CyberRisk Alliance
- 11:05-11:25 EST
Snyk Presentation: Why Traditional Security Fails the FinServ Speed Test
How to operationalize AI security for faster development, real risk reduction, and sustained governance in regulated environments As AI-generated code and autonomous workflows accelerate software delivery across financial services, they also expand the attack surface in ways traditional security was never designed to handle. For security leaders, the speed-versus-risk dilemma has never been more acute. Periodic scans, manual triage, and fragmented tools are becoming the bottleneck – forcing a dangerous choice between slowing innovation or accepting unacceptable risk. Join us for this session as we explore why legacy AppSec models fail in the age of AI – and how financial services organizations with strict compliance requirements can operationalize AI security to stabilize development, reduce real risk, and sustain governance as AI adoption scales.
Key Takeaways:
– Securing AI-generated code at speed: Why developer-first, secure-at-inception guardrails are essential to managing AI-generated risk without slowing innovation.
– From backlogs to real risk reduction: How to move beyond severity-driven triage to focused, AI-accelerated remediation—so teams fix what actually matters and fix it faster.
– Governance that scales with AI: How financial services organizations can maintain auditability, policy enforcement, and measurable security outcomes today – while laying the foundation for future orchestration and automation.
Kate Burke
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Synk
- 11:25-11:45
Reversing Labs Presentation: Secure Approvals Faster: Scalable Software Onboarding for Financial Cybersecurity
Enterprises face significant friction in the process of acquiring new software. Security assessments are manual, siloed, and highly reliant on third-party attestation. This leads to long review cycles, delaying the deployment of business-critical applications. Layer in rising regulatory pressure from global financial supervisory authorities, and it becomes clear that software supply chain security controls are no longer optional. During the session, we will outline how you can accelerate approvals by adopting a simple, scalable, and secure software onboarding program.
Charlie Jones
ChCSP, CISSP, CISA Senior Director, Product Management Reversing Labs
- 11:45-11:55 EST
Innovation Spotlight - Sublime: Executive impersonation in Finance: Exploring modern phishing tactics
Financial institutions are prime targets for cyberattacks, attracting both financially motivated criminals and intelligence-driven adversaries. A frequently used tactics in 2025 was executive impersonation, which exploits the hierarchical nature of the finance industry to scam targets. By combining executive impersonation with other tactics – like urgent, high-stakes requests – attackers are able to get victims to act before asking questions. In this talk, we will examine how these attacks work and how security teams can detect and stop impersonation
Steve Taylor
Solutions Engineer
Sublime Security
- 11:55-12:40 EST
Panel 1: Deepfakes, Phishing-as-a-Service, and the New Social Engineering Playbook
Fraud rings blend AI-generated voice/video, highly targeted phishing, and “relationship-based” social engineering to bypass both human judgment and traditional controls. This panel explores how deepfake-enabled scams are evolving (executive impersonation, call center spoofing, synthetic identities), where the most common breakdowns occur across people-process-technology, and what practical countermeasures work: out-of-band verification, secure comms, behavioral detection, and tighter approval workflows. The goal: reduce successful impersonation without creating so much friction that the business grinds to a halt.
V. Venesulia Carr
CEO
Vicar Group, LLC
Moderator
Jacob Anderson
President Beyond Ordinary Software Solutions
James Cassata
Senior Cloud Security Architect
Myriad360
Yaamini Barathi Mohan
VP of Events
Women In Cybersecurity
Alexandra Tarabour
Founder
The Pattern Laboratory
Theresa Lanowitz
Creator
Executive-led Growth
- 12:40-12:55 EST
Lunch
- 12:55-1:15 EST
XBOW Presentation: Autonomous Offensive Security at Scale: Modernizing Penetration Testing for Financial Services
In this session, we demonstrate how XBOW autonomously emulates real attacker behavior to uncover and validate exploitable weaknesses in applications. XBOW’s AI agents execute targeted exploits and generate reproducible proof, enabling security teams to focus on high-impact chained attacks and business logic issues. Learn how banks can operationalize continuous, autonomous penetration testing to strengthen security posture while meeting regulatory and delivery demands.
Dan Partake
XBOW
- 1:20-1:25 EST
Innovation Spotlight - Google Cloud: Securing FinServ at Machine Speed with Intent-Based AI
As financial services environments scale and face a new generation of autonomous, AI-driven attacks, traditional Security Operations Center (SOC) workflows are failing to keep pace. In this 7-minute Innovation Spotlight, we will explore the paradigm shift from manual log correlation and tedious integration pipelines to an era of “intent-based” security. Discover how deploying AI and Large Language Models enables critical threats to naturally bubble to the top of massive data lakes, and learn how the emerging “Agentic SOC” positions your infrastructure to counter machine-speed attacks with machine-speed defense.
Daniel Lees
Senior Staff Cloud Security Architect
Google Cloud
- 1:25-2:10 EST
Panel 2: Zero Trust in the Real World: Securing Hybrid Banking Without Killing the Customer Experience
Financial services can’t be a choice between security and convenience—customers demand seamless access, while regulators and boards demand resilience. This panel translates zero trust from aspiration to implementation: identity-centric architecture, continuous verification, least privilege, segmentation, device posture, and secure third-party access across cloud and legacy cores. Panelists will discuss what to prioritize first, what tends to stall, and how to reduce fraud and breach impact while keeping experiences fast, accessible, and competitive.
V. Venesulia Carr
CEO
Vicar Group, LLC
Moderator
Ankit Gupta
Senior Security Engineer
Exeter Finance LLC
- 2:10-2:20
Innovation Spotlight - Terra Security
- 2:20-2:50 EST
Presentation with Josh Susen, President, InfraGard: The Integrity Mandate: Navigating Explainable AI, Radical Transparency, and the New Ethics of FinSec
In the 2026 threat landscape, technical superiority is no longer enough to protect a financial institution. As Agentic AI and Deepfake-as-a-Service erode the traditional “Human Firewall,” the industry faces a crisis of trust. Security leaders are now caught between the “Black Box” of automated defense and the strict ethical mandates of the EU AI Act and DORA.
In this session, Josh Susen of InfoShield challenges the “compliance-only” mindset. He will dive into the shift from opaque security models to Explainable AI (XAI), ensuring that every automated decision is auditable and fair. Through a game-theoretic lens, he will examine why “Cooperative Defense” outperforms traditional “Attack-Defend” models in modern penetration testing.
Finally, he will analyze two recent case studies—contrasting the fallout of an overly cautious marketing team against the market-share gains achieved through Radical Transparency.
Josh Susen
President
InfraGard Jacksonville
- 2:50-3:35 EST
Panel 3: AI for Fraud and Cyber Defense: Anomaly Detection You Can Explain, Audit, and Act On
AI can detect abnormal behavior across transactions, accounts, endpoints, and networks—but black-box decisions create operational, legal, and regulatory challenges. This panel dives into deployable approaches for AI-powered anomaly detection and response: combining fraud and cyber telemetry, reducing false positives, building explainability, and operationalizing decisions with human oversight. We’ll also address model risk management, data quality, adversarial evasion, and how to align detection with incident response and customer protection—so AI improves trust instead of eroding it
V. Venesulia Carr
CEO
Vicar Group, LLC
Moderator
Dean Sapp
CISO, DPO
Filevine, Inc.
Chasserae Coyne
Founder
Axia GRC
Troy Leach
Chief Strategy Officer
Cloud Security Alliance
Rohith Kondeti
Senior Security Field Engineer
Anvilogic
- 3:35-3:40 EST
Closing Keynote Presentation
J.D. Miller
SVP, Communities Event Programming
CyberRisk Alliance
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.
Jacob Anderson
President
Beyond Ordinary Software Solutions
Yaamini Barathi Mohan
VP of Events
Women In Cybersecurity
Kate Burke
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Synk
James Cassata
Senior Cloud Security Architect
Myriad360
Chasserae Coyne
Founder
Axia GRC
Ankit Gupta
Senior Security Engineer
Exeter Finance LLC
Charlie Jones
ChCSP, CISSP, CISA Senior Director, Product Management Reversing Labs
Rohith Kondeti
Senior Security Field Engineer
Anvilogic
Theresa Lanowitz
Creator
Executive-led Growth
Troy Leach
Chief Strategy Officer
Cloud Security Alliance
Daniel Lees
Senior Staff Cloud Security Architect
Google Cloud
J.D. Miller
SVP, Communities Event Programming
CyberRisk Alliance
Dan Partake
XBOW
Dean Sapp
CISO, DPO
Filevine, Inc.
Josh Susen
President
InfraGard Jacksonville
Alexandra Tarabour
Founder
The Pattern Laboratory
Steve Taylor
Solutions Engineer
Sublime Security
V. Venesulia Carr
CEO
Vicar Group, LLC
Sponsors
he 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.
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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.