Sophos CSO Simon Reed reveals how attackers now operate like leveraged businesses—and how AI is making both sides of the cyber arms race dramatically more sophisticated.

Topics Include:

• Intro: Simon Reed, CSO at Sophos, joins Kamil Davidov.
• Sophos defends 625,000+ organizations with AI-native Fusion platform.
• Sophos MDR runs the world's largest agentic SOC.
• Simon's journey: cybersecurity since 2001, from graffiti to warfare.
• Cyber threats framed as constant toxicity, not occasional lightning strikes.
• Sophos spans small business to enterprise, giving unique threat visibility.
• Attackers now operate as leveraged, ecosystem-driven businesses, not lone actors.
• AI dramatically increases attack quality, speed, and sophistication.
• AWS Local Zones cut latency for Sophos's threat intelligence cloud.
• IntellX connects every product to real-time global threat data.
• "Good day" means finding novelty before attackers exploit it.
• Worst days: sudden, unpredictable supply chain compromise scenarios.
• Sophos updates protection across 600,000 customers within minutes.
• Decisions made fast, on incomplete data, balancing speed and risk.
• Sophos has pursued AI and deep learning for eight-plus years.
• Agentic AI's next phase reduces laborious human security work.
• Simon prioritizes class-based, automation-scale defenses over budgets.
• Sophos cut data platform costs 30%, migrated ahead of schedule.
• Advice: hyper-engage AWS account teams, push for more.
• Closing story: Sophos helped stop ransomware hitting hospitals during COVID.

Participants:

• Simon Reed – Chief Security Officer, Sophos
• Kamil Davidov – Sales Leader Israel ISV-BizApps, Amazon Web Services

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Vibe coding is accelerating code development within the Enterprise, but at what cost of security? Retool’s CEO shares how you can accelerate software development while managing the risks effectively.

Topics Include:

• Internal software runs pharmacies, grocery checkouts, and airport check-ins daily
• Retool manages and de-risks environment from insecure code
• AI has driven a 10x surge in code volume since 2025
• More code plus less human review means falling code quality
• Non-engineers can now build working apps in minutes flat
• But deploying and securing those apps remains genuinely difficult
• Multiple CIOs found private company data exposed on the internet
• Uncontrolled model choice is quietly driving up company costs
• Attackers now deploy automated agent swarms, not lone hackers
• Defense is asymmetric: one flaw in, everything must hold
• Retool runs inside customers' own cloud, often on AWS
• A single data choke point enables logging, audits, authorization
• Guardrails, not their absence, actually let teams move faster
• Security audits reveal major gaps in nearly all companies checked
• Nearly all companies may face a serious hack within 18 months

Participants:

• David Hsu – Founder, CEO, Retool

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In a fascinating panel discussion, executives from Couchbase, SentinelOne and AWS share strategies ensuring the highest adoption and ROI when deploying AI and the pitfalls to avoid along the way.

Topics Include:

• Agentic AI marks shift from clever data to autonomous agents
• Organizations sit at different AI maturity levels, not uniform
• Only 31% of adopters see measurable financial impact from AI
• Adoption friction, not access, is what stalls most AI value
• Segment your workforce: innovators, pragmatic majority, and reluctant laggards
• Give innovators tools, budget, and freedom before chasing laggards
• Visible recognition programs turn early innovators into internal role models
• AI-ready data infrastructure remains the top blocker to real adoption
• Future AI value concentrates at customer-facing, transaction-level touchpoints
• Coding tools see fast uptake; broader business adoption lags behind
• AI is quietly rewriting SEO, SEM, and lead-routing strategy
• Agent trust requires both clean data and strong safety guardrails
• Human-in-the-loop review lets AI handle investigation, humans decide outcomes
• In agentic AI, go-to-market partnerships matter more than past tech waves
• Strong tech-platform partnerships help smaller vendors punch above their weight
• Marketplace listings can cut sales cycles from months to weeks
• Best partnerships form around solving hard problems, not quarterly quotas
• Confidence gap: only 38% of employees feel AI-ready

Participants:

• Deirdre Toner – President & Chief Commercial Officer, Couchbase
• Eran Ashkenazi - Chief Business Officer, SentinelOne
• Connie de Lange – Director, AWS Strategic Customer & Partner Marketing, North America, Amazon Web Services
• Matt Wood – Chief AI & Technology Officer, Amazon Web Services

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