Kevin Reifsteck is a Director for Cybersecurity Policy at Microsoft, where he focuses on quantum safety and critical infrastructure protection issues. Prior to joining Microsoft, he served in roles as a Director for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity for the National Security Council (NSC) and as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). On the NSC staff, he provided policy and strategic guidance on critical infrastructure cybersecurity issues and contributed to the National Cyber Strategy. At the CIA, he produced analytic assessments to inform US policymakers about evolving cyber threats to US critical infrastructure. Reifsteck graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.
Generative and Agentic AI tools are already improving cyber defenses through their use in cybersecurity technologies, but these tools can also help with cybersecurity’s non-technical aspects as well. AI tools have the potential to make compliance reporting easier, enable organizations to find unknown pools of personally identifiable information, and enhance policy development by identifying all the relevant statutes and regulations. This panel will explore the application of AI to the non-technical side of cybersecurity and how investments in these capabilities could generate significant improvements in an organization’s cyber posture. These activities may not be very flashy, but they will likely have a large ROI for those organizations that make the investment.
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