Richard Stiennon
Chief Research Analyst
IT-Harvest
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AI FOR CYBERSECURITY
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Your definitive source for staying abreast of rapidly evolving topics within the cybersecurity industry. Through broadcast-quality video content featuring leading analysts and top experts in panels, analyst roundtables, and other formats — we give you the latest word on all salient topics, at no cost.
Featuring Live Tracks with leading analysts and expert panels.
01Flagship
AI Tech Forum Hub
Core AI security — model integrity, agent authorization, guardrails, runtime defense.
Sessions · Vendors
02Autonomous
SOC Automation Hub
Modern SIEM, SOAR and autonomous response — the platforms rewriting day-to-day SecOps.
Sessions · Vendors
03Symposium index
Cybersymposiums Agendas
Every Cybersymposiums agenda — every category, panel, and demo room in one index.
Agendas · Demo rooms
04Deep program
Technologist Forum
Every discipline tracked — from AppSec and Code Scanning to NHI, Identity and Deepfake Defense.
Full program · On-demand
· 02 · The Desk · Updated daily ·
All articles →Cybersecurity desk.
PolicyCISA Drops Eight Live-Fire CVEs Into KEV With April–May Deadlines, Three of Them Cisco SD-WAN
Federal civilian agencies have less than two weeks to remediate eight newly weaponized CVEs added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — three of them in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, plus reactivated bugs in PaperCut, Zimbra, Quest KACE, JetBrains, and Kentico that are now tied to nation-state and ransomware operators.
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AI AgentsFeaturedFlowise's Third Live-Fire RCE: 12,000 AI-Agent Builders Exposed to a CVSS 10.0 Code-Injection Bug
A maximum-severity code-injection flaw in Flowise's CustomMCP node, CVE-2025-59528, is being exploited from a single Starlink IP across more than 12,000 internet-facing instances — the third in-the-wild Flowise vulnerability in seven months.
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IdentityStolen Session Cookies Now Outpace Stolen Passwords — and 31% of Them Walk Past MFA
Recorded Future's 2025 identity-threat data, surfaced this week by Dark Reading, indexed 276 million stolen credentials carrying active session cookies — about 31% of all malware-sourced creds, each one effectively pre-authenticated. Identity is the perimeter, and the multi-factor prompt is no longer the chokepoint defenders thought it was.
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AI SecurityFeaturedAn AI Inference Server Bug Was Weaponized in Twelve Hours — LMDeploy Joins the Fast-Burn AI-Infra List
Twelve hours and thirty-one minutes after public disclosure, attackers were already pivoting through CVE-2026-33626, a server-side request forgery flaw in LMDeploy's vision-language module — probing AWS metadata, Redis, and MySQL from a tool most ML teams run with little operational telemetry.
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Threat IntelA Crafted PDF Is Still Enough — Adobe Patches an Actively Exploited Acrobat Zero-Day
CVE-2026-34621 is a prototype-pollution flaw in Acrobat's JavaScript engine that turns a malicious PDF into arbitrary code execution. Researchers say exploitation began in December 2025 — four months before Adobe's emergency patch and the CISA KEV listing.
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AI SecurityFeaturedAn 'Expected' MCP Behavior Is Now an RCE Vector Across 7,000 AI Servers
OX Security disclosed a design-level flaw in Anthropic's Model Context Protocol that turns the STDIO transport's default configuration into remote code execution. Anthropic says the behavior is expected; the open-source agent ecosystem now has dozens of CVEs to triage.
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01 · The Shift
AI Transforms theCybersecurity Landscape
AI is revolutionizing how we detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats. From automated threat detection to predictive defense systems, artificial intelligence is becoming the cornerstone of modern cybersecurity strategy — enabling organizations to stay ahead of evolving digital risks.
Read the manifestoWhat You Get
- 01Technology DemosHands-on vendor capability walkthroughs, recorded and on-demand.
- 02PanelsMulti-vendor + practitioner debates on real-world adoption.
- 03Analyst BriefingsIndependent analysis from IT-Harvest, Forrester-caliber researchers.
- 04Expert Q&A“CISOs Only Hour” + open practitioner dialogue sessions.
The Program
All tracksPractitioner-first tracks. No marketing noise.
01 · Flagship
AI Security Forum
Core AI security — model integrity, agent authorization, guardrails, runtime defense, and the adversarial edge.
“At the core of each vendor sits at least one brilliant technologist — we put their perspective on the record.”
Sessions · Vendors · On-demand
02 · Autonomous
SOC Automation
Modern SIEM, SOAR, autonomous response — the platforms rewriting day-to-day SecOps.
SOC deep-dives · Live demos
03 · Identity
NHI Showcase
Non-human identity, machine credentials, secrets governance, service-account security.
Panels · Deep-dive
04 · Live
Vendor Demo Rooms
Every participating vendor runs a live, interactive demo room on cybersymposiums.com — covering SOC Automation, App Security, NHI, Cloud, Identity and more. Every one curated, every one verified.
Live Demo Rooms
· 06 · Security Champions Panels
All tracks →Panels on building champion programs. Watch on demand.
From ROI to behavioural science to the contrarian views — the full panel set that launched the Security Champions track.
· Contributors · Panelists ·
126 Program Hosts. Every discipline represented.
CISOs, analysts, AI researchers, policy leaders and the founders of the tools you'll see demoed. Every contributor on the program.
126 total
Anton Chuvakin
Security Advisor
Google Cloud
Jim Reavis
Co-Founder & CEO
Cloud Security Alliance
John Kindervag
Creator of Zero Trust
On2IT Cybersecurity
Chase Cunningham
Chief Strategy Officer
Ericom Software
Jason Clinton
CISO
Anthropic
Ken Huang
Co-Chair AI Safety Working Groups
Cloud Security Alliance
Steve Wilson
CPO
Exabeam
Bobi Gilburd
Chief Innovation Officer
Team8
David Gold
VP Solutions Engineering & Americas Field CTO
SentinelOne
Martin Stanley
AI and Cybersecurity Researcher
NIST
Christina Liaghati
Trustworthy & Secure AI Department Manager
MITRE
Mark Kraynak
Founding Partner
Acrew Capital
Michelle Dennedy
Chief Data Strategy Officer
Abaxx Technologies
Michael Myint
CISO
AdaptHealth
Alex Polyakov
Co-Founder & CEO
Adversa AI
Zaheer Shaikh
CISO
Al Maryah Community Bank
Willian Yang Wang
Founder & CEO
Alpha Design AI
Kevin McDonald
CISO
Alvaka
Seyi Feyisetan
Principal Scientist
Amazon
Don Cox
CISO
American Public Education
Jason Haddix
CEO, CISO & Hacker
Arcanum Information Security
Moinul Khan
CEO
Aurascape.ai
Chloe Autio
CEO
Autio Strategies
Mateo Rojas
Founder and Chief Scientist
Lakera
Andy Chun
Founder
B9AI
Derek Melber
Identity Security Expert · Worldwide Keynote Speaker
BrainCore.Net
Timothy Amerson
Founder / CEO / CISO
CASMO
Rick Doten
VP Information Security
Centene Corporation
Jonathan Spring
Cybersecurity Specialist
CISA
Hyrum Anderson
CTO (acquired by Cisco)
Cisco
Merlin Namuth
CISO
City & County of Denver
Live demo rooms · Cybersymposiums
The vendor floor.
Live, interactive demo rooms on cybersymposiums.com — SOC, identity, data, AI, cloud. Hover to pause the reel.
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