Thursday · Ascend '26
Cyber in the age of AI
How to stay secure without stifling innovation.
As AI evolves from simple chatbots to autonomous "agents" executing complex workflows, the security landscape is rapidly shifting. These tools introduce novel vulnerabilities including prompt injection, cascading failures and “shadow AI” that traditional cybersecurity playbooks are not equipped to handle.
The tools once reserved for sovereign-level cyber defence are now sitting in everyone’s browser—including attackers’. As AI agents gain access to sensitive systems on both sides of the fight, the security bar every enterprise needs has quietly become national-security grade.
Join us as we explore how security teams can move from reactive defence to proactive, identity-based governance. Featuring experts from Wiz, Main Sequence, and leading AI-native deep tech startups, we’ll cover how to establish full visibility across cloud and AI environments.
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What to expect
- ⚡ Augmenting Startup Teams: Leveraging AI and security agents as force multipliers to achieve enterprise-grade cyber capabilities without extra headcount.
- 🛡️ Developer-First Security: Embedding Wiz directly into engineering workflows to maintain high release velocity without compromising safety.
- 🤖 Defending Against Agentic Threats: Moving beyond static bot mitigation to govern which AI agents interact with your infrastructure (Kasada).
- 👁️ Seeing the Threat Before It Lands: AI-powered OSINT for surfacing adversary activity across the open, deep and dark web (Fivecast).
- 🎯 Assume Breach, Then Fight Back: Deploying deception-based active defense when agentic attackers penetrate defenses (Liarbird).