All news in category “Events and Conferences”

🔒 At Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 in Tokyo, researchers chained 37 zero-day vulnerabilities and collected $516,500 in cash awards on the first day. Teams including Synacktiv Team, Fuzzware.io, PetoWorks, and Team DDOS gained root access on targets such as the Tesla Infotainment System, Sony XAV-9500ES, multiple EV chargers, and other IVI systems. Vendors have 90 days to issue patches before Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative publicly discloses the reported flaws.

🧠 This webinar explains how managed security service providers can apply AI to eliminate repetitive tasks, accelerate onboarding, and preserve margins with leaner teams. Cynomi CEO David Primor and Chad Robinson, CISO at Secure Cyber Defense, outline how automation handles assessments, benchmarking, and reporting in minutes, turning junior analysts into effective virtual CISOs and enabling consistent, repeatable CISO-grade delivery.

🔒 BleepingComputer will host a live webinar on January 29 at 2:00 PM ET with Adrian Sanabria and David Girvin of Sumo Logic to examine why executive purchasing decisions often misalign with SOC operational requirements. The session, "Failure to communicate: Why execs don’t buy SOC teams the tools they need," explores causes such as consolidation, budget pressures, and AI-driven hype. Attendees will learn practical strategies to measure real operational value, improve executive–practitioner collaboration, and extract more utility from existing security investments.

🔐 BleepingComputer will host a live webinar on January 29 at 2:00 PM ET exploring why executive-driven security purchases often leave SOC teams with tools that don't meet operational needs. Adrian Sanabria and David Girvin of Sumo Logic will explain how focusing on operational outcomes, automation, and visibility can help teams extract real signals from noisy tooling. Attendees will learn to reduce alert fatigue, improve integrations, and manage up to align executive priorities with frontline realities.

🔐 At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos, Fortinet argues that cybersecurity has evolved into a strategic leadership imperative. Accelerating geopolitical tensions, rapid AI adoption, and surging cyber-enabled crime mean boards and executives must treat cyber risk as enterprise risk rather than a purely technical issue. Fortinet advocates a systemic, cross-sector approach that embeds resilience, accountability, and responsible AI governance into organizational strategy.

🔐At Davos, cybersecurity has risen to the top of the leadership agenda as geopolitical tensions, rapid AI adoption, and escalating cybercrime converge. Fortinet says this is now a systemic strategic challenge that requires board-level accountability, cross-sector collaboration, and resilience designed into operations. The company emphasizes responsible, enterprise-wide adoption of AI in security and stronger intelligence sharing. Initiatives like Fortinet’s Cybercrime Bounty and a Davos panel led by Derek Manky highlight practical, ecosystem-wide approaches to deter and disrupt cybercriminal markets.

🎤 This page lists confirmed speaking engagements and a book-signing appearance scheduled for early 2026, spanning universities, public libraries, conventions, and major cybersecurity conferences. Included are talks at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science (Waterloo) and the Université de Montréal, a combined talk and signing at the Chicago Public Library, and appearances at Capricon 46, the Munich Cybersecurity Conference, Tech Live: Cybersecurity, the Ross Anderson Lecture at Cambridge, and RSAC. Dates and times are provided where available; some speaking slots remain TBD and the list is maintained on the page.

🔒 CrowdTour 2026 is CrowdStrike’s global roadshow focused on securing the AI era, bringing executives, practitioners, architects, and innovators together across 60+ cities. Attendees will learn to counter AI-accelerated threats, transform SOCs with agentic automation, and govern AI across the enterprise. Sessions include live demos, hands-on training, customer stories, and guidance on using the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform to protect data, agents, identities, and models.

🎤 This post lists Bruce Schneier’s confirmed speaking engagements through March 2026, with dates and locations for public talks, a book signing, academic lectures, and industry appearances. Notable entries include a public talk and signing at the Chicago Public Library on February 5, Capricon 44 in Chicago (February 5–8), the Munich Cybersecurity Conference on February 12, Tech Live: Cybersecurity in New York on March 11, the Ross Anderson Lecture at Cambridge on March 19, and RSAC 2026 in San Francisco on March 25. Some speaking times remain TBD and the list is maintained on the page.

🏆 Check Point's Infinity Global Services (IGS) concluded its inaugural Cyber Park World Championship, organized with community partner CheckMates and training specialist Cympire. Hundreds of participants worldwide competed in realistic cyber ranges, demonstrating technical mastery, incident response skills, and effective teamwork under pressure. The event showcased hands-on cyber simulations within IGS training programs and crowned the first global winners, reinforcing Check Point's commitment to upskilling defenders and strengthening the security workforce.

🔒 The Cortex Cloud team at Palo Alto Networks is hosting a technical webinar that dissects three recent cloud investigations and demonstrates practical defenses. Speakers will reveal the mechanics of AWS identity misconfigurations, techniques attackers use to hide malicious artifacts by mimicking AI model naming, and how overprivileged Kubernetes entities are abused. The session emphasizes Code-to-Cloud detection, runtime intelligence, and audit-log analysis to close visibility gaps; register to attend the live deep dive.

🔑 Renee Guttmann and other senior cyber leaders explain when professionals need mentorship versus executive coaching. At a September ISSA LA meeting, Guttmann distinguished mentoring as a one-on-one transfer of real-world experience and coaching as focused work on skills like executive presence. Speakers pointed to formal programs, networking, and industry groups as primary sources for guidance. Together, mentors and coaches help bridge technical foundations and board-level business acumen.

🏆 The 2025 CSO 30 Awards celebrate cybersecurity leaders blending technology, culture and measurable impact. A panel of judges recognised achievements across categories such as AI and Digital Excellence, Rising Star, Diversity and Inclusion and CSO of the Year. Highlights include Greg Emmerson’s automation and canary tooling at Applegreen, Chris Bardell’s response advances at Royal Papworth Hospital, and Craig Hickmott’s human-first transformation at the British Heart Foundation. The programme emphasises workforce development, responsible AI and organisational resilience.

🎟️ Registration is now live for Google Cloud Next, returning to Las Vegas April 22–24, 2026. Secure early bird pricing at $999 for a limited time and join a global community of builders, engineers, and business leaders for keynotes, deep-dive sessions, hands-on labs, demos, hackathons, and workshops. Expect practical AI-focused content and collaborative networking designed to deliver actionable insights and skills.

🔒 Community-driven package managers like Chocolatey and Winget speed deployments but can introduce supply-chain risks when packages are added or updated without rigorous vetting. Gene Moody, Field CTO at Action1, will lead a free webinar that tests these tools in practice, highlights common weak points, and demonstrates pragmatic safeguards such as source pinning, allow-lists, and hash/signature verification. The session focuses on actionable steps to help teams prioritize updates using known-exploited vulnerability data (KEV) and to choose whether to rely on community repos, vendor sources, or a hybrid approach while maintaining operational velocity.

🏆 Hall of Fame award nominations are officially open, with a deadline of December 3. The CSO Hall of Fame, now in its eighth year, recognizes seasoned security leaders (10+ years in CSO, CISO or comparable roles) for lifetime contributions that have shaped information risk management. Inductees will be honored at the CSO Conference + Awards May 11–13, 2026 in Nashville, TN, where attendees can network across topics from AI to zero trust.

😴 At the Global Cyber Conference 2025 in Zurich, CISOs openly confronted a profession-wide exhaustion tied to escalating cyber risk. Tim Brown distilled the anxiety into five core threats: shrinking exploit windows, persistent adversaries, third-party risk, an AI arms race, and staff burnout. The Swiss Cyber Institute's vendor-free format created a trust-based forum where peers share IOCs, run joint table-tops and adopt risk-based patching and UEBA to speed response and restore resilience.

🎮 The UK government has launched the International Defence Esports Games (IDEG), touted as the world’s first military esports tournament, involving personnel from 40 allied nations. The three-day event at the National Gaming and Esports Arena in Sunderland on 9–11 October 2026 will combine live-streamed competitive matches with summits on cybersecurity, AI and drone operations. Officials say IDEG will sharpen cyber and digital skills, improve rapid decision-making and build allied partnerships.

🤖 Bruce Schneier highlights three new online events in his Prompt||GTFO series: sessions #4, #5, and #6. These recordings showcase practical and innovative uses of AI in cybersecurity, spanning demonstrations, research discussions, and operational insights. Schneier recommends them as well worth watching for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers interested in AI's applications and risks. The events are available online for convenient viewing.

🔒 AWS re:Invent 2025 highlights an expanded Security and Identity track featuring more than 80 sessions across breakouts, workshops, chalk talks, and hands-on builders’ sessions. The program groups content into four practical themes — Securing and Leveraging AI, Architecting Security and Identity at scale, Building and scaling a Culture of Security, and Innovations in AWS Security — with real-world guidance and demos. Attendees can meet experts at the Security and AI Security kiosks in the expo hall and are encouraged to reserve limited-capacity hands-on sessions early to secure seats.