Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering
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LinkedInMichael Sikorski is an industry expert in reverse engineering and published the book Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software, which has had over 100,000 copies distributed, and teaches the tools and techniques used by professional analysts for malware analysis. He has over 20 years of experience working on high-profile incidents and leading research and development teams. He also teaches cybersecurity at Columbia University.
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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