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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: AI Security: Hype\, Hacks\, and the Future of Defens
 e\n   Tags: Blue Team Village | Creator Talk/Panel\n   When: Saturday\, Au
 g 8\, 14:30 - 15:30 PDT\n   Where: LVCCW Level 2 W217 (Blue Team Village) 
 Main Stage - [1]Map\n\n   Description:\n\n   It starts with a simple promp
 t.\n\n   An AI assistant writes production code in seconds. A phishing ema
 il\n   becomes nearly indistinguishable from a legitimate one. A security\
 n   analyst uses an AI copilot to investigate hundreds of alerts—while\n
    an attacker uses the same technology to automate reconnaissance\,\n   c
 reate malware\, and scale attacks.\n\n   Welcome to the new reality of cyb
 ersecurity.\n\n   AI is changing how we build\, defend\, attack\, and trus
 t technology. As\n   organizations rapidly deploy AI applications and auto
 nomous agents\,\n   defenders face two urgent questions: How can we use AI
  to defend\n   better\, and how do we secure AI itself?\n\n   Join AI and 
 cybersecurity practitioners for an honest discussion that\n   separates hy
 pe from reality. Through real-world stories and practical\n   insights\, w
 e’ll explore how attackers are using AI\, how defenders\n   are respondi
 ng\, what it means to secure AI systems\, and where the\n   industry is he
 aded next.\n\n   Whether you’re a seasoned blue teamer\, security leader
 \, AI\n   enthusiast\, or new to cybersecurity\, you’ll leave with a cle
 arer\n   view of today’s AI security landscape—and what tomorrow’s\n
    defenders need to know.\n\n   The future of cybersecurity is already he
 re. Are you ready?\n\n   Speakers:Karan Dwivedi\,Thomas Roccia\,Todd Fletc
 her\,Nikki Robinson\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Karan Dwivedi\n\n   Karan Dwivedi i
 s a recognized cybersecurity expert. Currently\, he\n   serves as a securi
 ty engineering manager at Google. Karan has led\n   large-scale security p
 rojects at Google and Yahoo in the US for\n   products like Google Search\
 , Google Assistant\, Yahoo Mail\, Yahoo\n   Finance\, Flickr\, etc\, to sa
 feguard over a billion users. At Yahoo\, he\n   was part of the security t
 eam responding to the world’s largest data\n   breach. He is the author 
 of the book “Kickstart your security\n   engineering career” which is 
 a definitive guide for anyone looking\n   to start a career in security en
 gineering. Karan contributed to the\n   latest internet standard for scori
 ng vulnerabilities\, the Common\n   Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS 4.0
 ). He is featured in major media\n   like Hakin9 Media Magazine\, Forensic
  Focus News\, etc. He has delivered\n   talks at national and internationa
 l conferences like Tech Ex North\n   America\, Tech Summit SF\, BSides Las
  Vegas\, National Cyber Summit\, etc\,\n   to influence private and public
  sectors. Karan was featured as a\n   subject matter expert in the Google 
 Cybersecurity Certificate program\n   launched in May 2023 on Coursera\, w
 hich had an enrollment of over\n   41000 students in a few weeks. Furtherm
 ore\, Karan has served as an\n   advisor to startups\, an editorial board 
 member in international\n   security journals\, and judged global competit
 ions. He holds a\n   master’s degree in Information Security from Carneg
 ie Mellon\n   University\, USA. His portfolio can be found at https://kara
 nd.me\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Thomas Roccia\n\n   Thomas Roccia is the Founder 
 and Threat Researcher at SecurityBreak\, a\n   company dedicated to AI Thr
 eat Intelligence and AI security. With more\n   than 15 years of experienc
 e in cybersecurity\, he has investigated\n   major cyberattacks\, led thre
 at research at Microsoft and McAfee\,\n   collaborated with law enforcemen
 t\, and helped organizations understand\n   and respond to emerging threat
 s.\n\n   Speaker / Contributor: This individual participates in SANS event
 s\,\n   presentations\, written content\, or other community resources as 
 an\n   external contributor. They are not a SANS employee\, instructor\, o
 r\n   affiliate.\n\n   Since 2022\, Thomas has focused on AI Threat Intell
 igence\, researching\n   how attackers target AI systems and how defenders
  can secure the\n   growing AI ecosystem. He is recognized as one of the e
 arly pioneers in\n   applying generative AI to cyber threat intelligence t
 hrough practical\n   research\, open-source projects\, and industry educat
 ion.\n\n   Thomas is the creator of several widely used open-source initia
 tives\,\n   including the Unprotect Project and NOVA\, one of the first\n 
   detection-rule frameworks for prompt pattern matching and AI security\n 
   monitoring. NOVA won the SANS AI Cybersecurity Hackathon in 2025\, and\n
    Thomas received the SANS Difference Makers Award (DMA) the same year\n 
   for his contributions to the cybersecurity community. He is also the\n  
  author of the bestselling book Visual Threat Intelligence: An\n   Illustr
 ated Guide for Threat Researchers\, recipient of the Bronze\n   Foreword I
 NDIES Award in the Science & Technology category.\n\n   A regular speaker 
 at leading security conferences\, including BlackHat\,\n   DEFCON\, BSides
 \, and SANS events\, Thomas teaches AI Threat Intelligence\n   to security
  professionals around the world\, to help defenders apply AI\n   to real-w
 orld investigations while understanding the risks attackers\n   pose to th
 e AI ecosystem.\n\n   Through SecurityBreak\, Thomas develops research\, i
 ntelligence\, and\n   products that help organizations monitor\, detect\, 
 and defend against\n   attacks targeting AI models\, agents\, tools\, and 
 the broader AI\n   ecosystem.\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Todd Fletcher\n\n   Todd 
 Fletcher (@kobaltfox) has spent 25 years on the defense side\,\n   running
  IT and security for public government\, wiring up SIEM and SOAR\n   pipel
 ines\, and building security programs that survive contact with a\n   real
  budget. He works at CrowdStrike as an AI Services Technical Lead\n   in S
 trategic Advisory Services\, where a lot of his job is separating\n   what
  AI actually does for a SOC from what the slide deck claims it\n   does.\n
 \n   He is also a PhD candidate in cyberpsychology at Birmingham City\n   
 University (UK)\, studying the people doing the defending: what drives\n  
  them\, what burns them down\, and why "humans are the weakest link" has\n
    always been a lazy answer. He writes at kobaltfox.com and\n   toddmflet
 cher.com which starts from the position that defender mental\n   health is
  a security outcome\, not a wellness perk.\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Nikki Robins
 on\, Security Architect & STSM at IBM\n\n   Nikki is an STSM and Lead Arch
 itect at IBM\, as well as a Professor of\n   Practice at IBM. She holds a 
 DSc in Cyber and a PhD in Human Factors.\n   She has recently authored a b
 ook titled\, Effective Vulnerability\n   Management\, a book that will be 
 released in April 2024. She has over\n   15 years in IT Operations and cyb
 ersecurity\, including vuln mgmt\,\n   network defense\, security research
 \, and incident response.\n\n   '\n\n   1. #LVCCW_Level2_North\n\n\n
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SUMMARY:AI Security: Hype\, Hacks\, and the Future of Defense
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