Richard Stiennon
Chief Research Analyst
IT-Harvest
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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.
VulnerabilitiesFeaturedMicrosoft's April Patch Drop: 169 Fixes, a SharePoint Zero-Day, and Windows Defender's 'BlueHammer'
April 2026 is the second-largest Patch Tuesday on record. One of the 169 CVEs is already under active exploitation in Microsoft SharePoint Server, and a publicly-disclosed Defender bug nicknamed BlueHammer rounds out an unusually dense release.
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PolicyNIST Throws the Triage Flag: CVE Enrichment Goes Selective After a 263% Submission Surge
NIST will stop enriching every CVE submitted to the National Vulnerability Database. A new prioritisation policy — live as of April 15 — covers KEV entries, EO 14028 critical software, and anything with systemic-risk potential. Everything else goes to a 'Not Scheduled' queue.
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AI SecurityFeaturedAnthropic's 'Glasswing' Puts an Offensive-Grade AI in the Hands of 50 Defenders — And Schneier Isn't Convinced It's a Gift
Anthropic held back its Mythos Preview model from public release and shipped it instead to roughly 50 organisations under 'Project Glasswing'. Bruce Schneier argues the defensive edge is real but temporary — and that smaller models are already closing the gap.
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AI AgentsLab Study: Humans Treat AI Agents Like Rational Allies — And That's a Security Problem
A new controlled experiment finds people play more cooperatively against LLMs than against other humans in a strategic game. Schneier flags the finding for every team designing systems where agents and humans operate side-by-side.
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Supply ChainFeaturedNorth Korea's 'Contagious Interview' Seeds 1,700 Poisoned Packages Across Every Major Registry
Pyongyang-linked operators have crossed a scale threshold. A campaign Socket tracks as Contagious Interview has placed 1,700+ malicious packages across npm, PyPI, Go and Rust since January 2025 — and the payloads no longer trigger at install time.
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PolicySchneier Reads the 2026 US Cyber Strategy as a Quiet Authorization for Corporate Hackback
One sentence in the Cyber Strategy for America document — 'unleash the private sector by creating incentives to identify and disrupt adversary networks' — is, per Bruce Schneier, an invitation to private offensive cyber operations. He compares it to the letters of marque a prior century eventually abandoned.
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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
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