Most cybersecurity programs are built around a familiar cycle: detect the attack, respond to the breach, and recover afterward. But in today’s environment, attackers are no longer playing by those timelines.

AI-powered adversaries are compressing the attack lifecycle, enabling them to move from reconnaissance to exploitation faster than many organizations can detect. The result is a fundamental challenge: by the time an attack is detected, the damage is often already underway.

To keep pace, organizations must move toward preemptive security—strategies designed to stop attackers before they gain meaningful access.

This session examines how security leaders can shift their posture from reactive defense to proactive disruption by using emerging techniques that identify attackers earlier, misdirect them with deception, and prevent access to critical systems altogether.

 

Objectives

Attendees will learn:

  • Why traditional security controls struggle to keep pace with modern attackers
  • How adversaries are using automation and AI to accelerate attacks
  • Three new defensive capabilities that enable organizations to move security “left of boom”

 

SPEAKER: Terry Kurzynski, Senior Partner – HALOCK

WHAT: CypherCon 2026

WHEN: Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 4:00pm Central

WHERE: Baird Center | 400 W Wisconsin Ave | Milwaukee, WI 53203