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Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing cybersecurity. As patch-to-exploit timelines shrink and attackers move at machine speed, long-standing security models are being put to the test. Can detection-first security operations keep pace, or is it time to rethink prevention as the strongest default?
Join Jason Kikta, Chief Technology Officer at Automox, Dmitri Alperovitch, Co-Founder and Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, and Kat Traxler, Principal Security Researcher at Vectra AI. Together, they’ll have an in-depth discussion on how AI is accelerating exploitation, transforming both attacker and defender capabilities, and forcing security operations to evolve beyond human-speed workflows.
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