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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Fighting the Next Wave of Cybercrime

Michele Zuccala , Misha Bragin , Ross Kukulinski , Frank Schlesinger , Tomislav Tipurić

Are autonomous threat actors exploiting your network while you wait for weekly patches? Discover how to aggressively shrink your attack surface and treat AI agents as first-class identities.

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#1 about 4 min

Closing the operational speed gap in enterprise cybersecurity

How organizations pivot their defense strategies to counter the extreme speeds of AI-driven vulnerability scanning.

#2 about 3 min

Securing heterogeneous legacy payment infrastructure against AI

Why highly sensitive legacy payment infrastructures still rely on closed networks and deep fake awareness to maintain security.

#3 about 1 min

Using LLMs to reverse engineer undocumented legacy code

How modern reasoning models assist engineering teams in documenting and reverse-engineering opaque older codebases.

#4 about 1 min

Segmenting networks to isolate critical systems from agents

Why separating critical internal systems from public endpoints minimizes the operational threat profile of autonomous AI agents.

#5 about 4 min

Governing and auditing internal AI agents for security

How assigning explicit identities and just-in-time permissions governs the data access of autonomous internal agents.

#6 about 2 min

Differences between autonomous AI agents and traditional malware

How agentic threat actors dynamically pivot and self-adapt during network encounters unlike deterministic malware scripts.

#7 about 3 min

Handling the surge of AI-generated open-source code contributions

How engineering teams manage the high volume of automated open-source pull requests generated by users chasing bug bounties.

#8 about 3 min

Automating pull request triaging and real-time infrastructure scanning

How enterprise platforms deploy automated assistants to review code changes and conduct real-time infrastructure threat scans.

#9 about 4 min

Navigating DORA compliance and executive liability in security

How European regulatory frameworks hold managing directors personally liable for maintaining continuous cybersecurity resilience.

#10 about 2 min

Using on-premise hosting to simplify enterprise compliance audits

Why adopting self-hosted or open-source deployment models helps organizations bypass lengthy third-party compliance audits.

#11 about 2 min

Prioritizing runtime protection over continuous attack surface reduction

Why security leaders overinvest in speedy runtime responses under the assumption that network breaches are inevitable.

#12 about 3 min

Preventing shadow AI by reducing friction in security controls

How providing fast read-only system provisioning prevents employees from circumventing overly restrictive security protocols.

#13 about 4 min

Distinguishing AI-assisted users from experienced security professionals

Why relying on AI-generated security answers still requires critical skepticism, strict accountability, and deep domain expertise.

#14 about 2 min

Retaining the defender advantage in the cybersecurity race

How defenders maintain a robust operational edge through advanced tooling despite attackers generating exploit code with language models.

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