Presented by Brandon Wales, former Executive Director of CISA
The cyber battlefield is transforming in real time, bringing both unprecedented defensive opportunities and alarming offensive threats.
In this keynote presentation, SentinelOne VP of Cybersecurity Strategy Brandon Wales draws on decades of cyber defense leadership and insider threat intelligence to explore how AI is accelerating attacks, changing attacker profiles, and upending long-held assumptions about what it means to “stay ahead of the adversary.”
Key Topics Covered
Threat actors are leveraging AI right now: Nation-states, ransomware gangs, and even rogue actors are already incorporating large language models and autonomous agents into every stage of the cyber kill chain.
The barrier to cybercrime is dropping fast: AI is lowering the technical bar for executing sophisticated cyberattacks. Brandon unpacks how “script kiddies” and ideological hacktivists are becoming as dangerous as traditional APT groups.
Why AI democratization could put local infrastructure at risk: From water utilities to municipal governments, entities without MDR support or modern cyber investments are exposed to large-scale automated attacks, and often can’t remediate quickly enough.
Who Should Watch
This is not a technical demo or marketing showcase. It’s a direct, pragmatic, and deeply informed perspective on the state of cybersecurity, designed for:
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CIOs, CISOs, and senior IT leaders responsible for setting cyber strategy
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Risk and compliance executives seeking context for AI-infused threats
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Public sector stakeholders managing infrastructure, utilities, and citizen data
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Higher ed and cyber workforce development leaders
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About WEI
At WEI, we’re passionate about solving your technology problems and helping you drive your desired business outcomes. We believe in challenging the status quo and thinking differently. There are a lot of companies that can take today’s technology and create a great IT solution for you. But we do more. We go further. And we have the customer, vendor and industry awards to prove it. WEI is a premier technology partner, who always puts our customers first while providing the most innovative solutions for over 35 years.
About SentinelOne
SentinelOne is a leading AI-powered cybersecurity platform. Built on the first unified Data Lake, SentinelOne empowers the world to run securely by creating intelligent, data-driven systems that think for themselves, stay ahead of complexity and risk, and evolve on their own. Leading organizations—including Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and Global 2000 companies, as well as prominent governments— trust SentinelOne to Secure Tomorrow™.
