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Fortinet Advances Global Cyber Resilience at AMC25

🔒 Fortinet participated in the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting on Cybersecurity (AMC25) in Dubai, engaging government, industry, and civil leaders to advance global cyber resilience. Fortinet executives Dr. Carl Windsor and Derek Manky led sessions on public‑private collaboration, frameworks for scaling disruption, and the role of the Cybercrime Atlas in enabling coordinated action. They highlighted recent coordinated operations and impact reported in the 2025 Cybercrime Atlas: Impact Report, emphasizing that aligning policy, governance, and technical intelligence is essential to protect supply chains, AI systems, and critical infrastructure.

Google Cloud and NVIDIA Power AI Innovation Week in D.C.

🤝 At the end of October in Washington, D.C., Google Cloud and NVIDIA will lead a week of events highlighting advances in AI, high-performance computing, and secure mission deployments. NVIDIA GTC DC (Oct. 27–29) features keynotes, demos, and hands-on sessions showcasing next-generation models and infrastructure. The Google Public Sector Summit (Oct. 29) convenes government leaders to explore practical uses of technologies like Gemini for Government and discuss secure, scalable AI adoption for mission impact.

Upcoming Speaking Engagements — Fall 2025 and Beyond

📅 This is a current list of scheduled speaking engagements featuring Bruce Schneier and co-speaker Nathan E. Sanders, centered on the book Rewiring Democracy. Events include in-person appearances in Cambridge, Toronto, Strasbourg, and Chicago, as well as virtual talks hosted by Data & Society, Boston Public Library, and City Lights. Most events combine a book discussion with opportunities for audience Q&A and some include signings. Attendees should check the maintained events page for registration details and any updates.

CIO100 and CSO30 ASEAN 2025 Team Awards Finalists Announced

🏆 CIO and CSO ASEAN have named the finalists for the CIO100 ASEAN and CSO30 ASEAN 2025 Team Awards, recognising leading technology and cybersecurity teams across Southeast Asia. Selected by a panel of CIO and CSO executive editors, finalists span six categories including CIO Innovation, CIO Customer Value and CSO Public-Private Partnership. The in-person Gala Night will take place in Singapore on 12 November 2025 to celebrate winners and foster networking among industry leaders.

Securing Agentic AI: Microsoft Ignite Security Guide

🔒 Microsoft Ignite 2025 highlights security-focused sessions and hands-on labs tailored for practitioners and leaders. Join in San Francisco Nov 17–21 (or online Nov 18–20) for briefings, demos, and instructor-led labs covering Microsoft Security Copilot, Sentinel, Defender, Entra, and Purview. A Security Forum (Nov 17) and keynote segments led by senior security executives will explore designing, governing, and protecting agentic AI across the lifecycle.

Cybersecurity Nightmares: Password Graveyard Webinar

🔒 Join The Hacker News and Specops Software for a Halloween webinar, "Cybersecurity Nightmares: Tales from the Password Graveyard," that examines how weak passwords lead to costly breaches and operational strain. The live session reviews real breach stories, explains why traditional complexity rules fail, and offers a live demo showing how Specops blocks breached passwords in real time and builds compliant, user-friendly policies. Attendees will get a straightforward three-step plan to cut helpdesk resets, meet compliance, and stop credential-based attacks.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Move Beyond Passwords

🔐 October's Cybersecurity Awareness Month reminds users that passwords alone no longer provide reliable protection. Adopt MFA wherever possible—prefer authenticator apps or hardware security keys over SMS—and consider emerging passwordless options such as passkeys. Organizations should enforce strong authentication to protect systems, customers and reputation. Watch ESET's video with Tony Anscombe for practical guidance.

it-sa 2025: Nearly 1,000 Security Vendors at Nuremberg

🔒 it-sa 2025 opened in Nuremberg on October 7, with organizers reporting 990 exhibitors — a 15% increase over last year — and an expected attendance record to be announced at the close. At the opening press conference, BSI President Claudia Plattner said the agency will implement the Cyber Resilience Act in Germany and exercise market surveillance powers. Industry leaders highlighted strong market growth, rising cybercrime losses, and calls to increase corporate security budgets while supporting European security startups.

Zeroday Cloud contest: $4.5M bounties for cloud tools

🔐 Zeroday Cloud is a new hacking competition focused on open-source cloud and AI tools, offering a $4.5 million bug bounty pool. Hosted by Wiz Research with Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft, it takes place December 10–11 at Black Hat Europe in London. The contest features six categories covering AI, Kubernetes, containers, web servers, databases, and DevOps, with bounties ranging from $10,000 to $300,000. Participants must deliver complete compromises and register via HackerOne.

Accelerate AI with Agents: EMEA Developer Series and Labs

🚀 Google Cloud is hosting a regional event series across EMEA to help developers and tech practitioners learn to build and scale AI agents. The program combines immersive, hands-on labs and expert-led workshops covering technologies such as Cloud Run, Vertex AI, Gemini, and the Agent Development Kit (ADK). Participants receive step-by-step guidance and practical exercises designed to accelerate agent deployments and operational readiness within organizations.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Knowledge Is Power

🔐 October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month, underscoring that the human element is the first and most critical line of defense against cyberthreats. Cybercriminals exploit social engineering and increasingly rely on AI-driven tools to create believable, hyper-personalized scams and deepfakes. Watch the video with ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe for practical insights, and consider ESET's cybersecurity awareness training to strengthen individual and organizational resilience.

DHS and CISA Launch Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025

🛡️ The Department of Homeland Security and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the official start of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025, centered on the theme Building a Cyber Strong America. Administered by CISA, the campaign urges state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments, small and medium businesses, and supply chain partners to bolster protections for critical services such as water, power, communications, food, and finance. Officials emphasized a whole-of-society approach and recommended immediate adoption of core controls—recognize and report phishing, require long unique passwords, enable multifactor authentication, keep software patched, enable system logging, back up data, and encrypt sensitive information—to improve resilience nationwide.

CSO30 Australia 2025: Honoring Leading Cybersecurity Figures

🛡️ At the CSO30 Australia Awards 2025, Australia’s top cybersecurity leaders and teams were recognised for initiatives that materially strengthened organisational security and resilience. The Sydney gala, held alongside the CIO50 and aligned with Foundry’s global program, honoured winners for business value, leadership and emerging talent. Shaun Martin (Aware Super) secured the Business Value award and Manasseh Paradesi (Tyro Payments) won Leadership, while Duné Sookloll took the Next CISO prize—each cited for measurable impact, stakeholder engagement and industry contribution.

Fortinet Highlights Unified SASE at 4th Annual Summit

🔒 Fortinet’s 4th Annual SASE Summit reinforced that unifying networking and security is now a strategic requirement for cloud and hybrid work environments. Analysts from Gartner, Fortinet executives, and customers shared lessons on consolidation, AI-driven operations, and sovereign SASE. Demos highlighted FortiAI-Assist for automated remediation and DEM for end-to-end experience monitoring. Attendees saw real-world results from customers who replaced fragile VPNs with a single-platform Unified SASE approach.

Check Point Honors Top Asia Pacific Partners in 2025

🤝 Check Point Software Technologies recognised top-performing partners across Asia Pacific at its 2025 Partner Conference held 8-11 September at the JW Marriott Hanoi. Nearly 200 regional partners gathered to address rising AI-driven cyber threats, share best practices and strengthen go-to-market strategies. As a 100% partner-led organisation, Check Point celebrated channel excellence with awards that honoured innovation, collaboration and outstanding adoption of its unified security portfolio. The event reinforced the ecosystem’s central role in securing organizations across the region.

Preparing Organizations for the AI and Quantum Threat

🔒 This upcoming 60‑minute webinar examines how quantum computing and AI are jointly reshaping cybersecurity and accelerating new attack vectors. Top experts will cut through the hype to explain quantum-safe cryptography, practical defenses against AI-driven phishing and "harvest now, decrypt later" risks, and industry-specific controls for finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. Attendees will leave with a concrete roadmap for assessment, deployment, and ongoing resilience. Seats are limited.

Webinar: Securing the Modern Web Edge from Browser Threats

🔒 On September 29 at 12:00 PM ET, BleepingComputer and SC Media will host a live webinar featuring browser security experts from Push Security to examine how modern web browsers have become a primary enterprise attack surface. The session will cover malicious and shadow extensions, session token theft, OAuth abuse, and emerging ClickFix and FileFix techniques, plus mitigation strategies. Attendees will learn practical detection and response approaches to protect SaaS sessions, restore visibility at the web edge, and close gaps missed by traditional endpoint and identity controls.

Bruce Schneier: Upcoming Speaking Engagements 2025–2026

📢 Bruce Schneier lists his scheduled public talks and book signings through late 2025 and early 2026. Highlights include a signing at the Cambridge Public Library on October 22, 2025 at 6 PM ET, sponsored by Harvard Bookstore, and a virtual talk about his book Rewiring Democracy on October 23, 2025 at 1 PM ET hosted by Data & Society. He will also appear at the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg (Nov 5–7), the University of Toronto Bookstore (Nov 14), the MIT Museum with Crystal Lee (Dec 1), and the Chicago Public Library (Feb 5, 2025). Details and updates are maintained on this page.

Agentic SOC Workshops: Practical AI for Security Teams

🛡️ The Agentic SOC Workshop is a complimentary, half-day event series from Google Cloud designed to help security professionals apply agentic AI and cloud-native threat intelligence to real-world operations. Attendees will participate in hands-on labs, a Capture the Flag challenge, and peer networking to learn how Gemini and Google Cloud tools can reduce alert fatigue and automate routine workflows. Sessions start in Los Angeles on Sept. 17 and Chicago on Sept. 19, with additional dates in October.

CISA Priorities at 16th Billington CyberSecurity Summit

🔐 The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will present senior leaders and experts at the 16th Annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit, Sept. 9–12 in Washington, D.C. Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala and new Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity Nick Andersen will deliver fireside chats outlining CISA’s strategic objectives. Other sessions address vulnerability management, threat hunting, supply chain collaboration, and AI in code security. Registration is required.