Automated Pentesting, AI in SecOps, & AI-Powered Analytics – Jason Keirstead, Jay Mar-Tang, Anthony Aurigemma – ESW #361
Despite building up impressive security stacks in the Cloud, organizations are still struggling to keep their environments safe. Pentera recently introduced Pentera Cloud as the first tool to provide automated pentesting capabilities for cloud environments. This conversation will focus on the challenge of security validation and pentesting in the cloud, and how Pentera Cloud is redefining the speed and scale of pentesting in the cloud.
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Jason Keirstead, Cyware's VP of Collective Threat Defense, takes us beyond the AI buzz in cybersecurity. While AI has tremendous potential for cybersecurity, Jason emphasizes its pragmatic and deliberate application to modernize security operations — not as a panacea but as a strategic ally in enhancing threat intelligence, response capabilities, and operational collaboration. We discuss the practical benefits and limitations of AI, offering insights into how security professionals can leverage AI to augment, not replace, human decision-making and creativity in the ongoing fight against cyber threats.
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Anomali’s AI-Powered Security Operations Platform is a cloud-native solution that delivers the industry’s most comprehensive set of integrated and automated security functions. Anthony Aurigemma discusses how Anomali Copilot automates mundane tasks and enables better analytics and reasoning for today’s security teams – automating half of an analyst’s day, enabling them to focus on strategic work. With the ability to augment or replace legacy security systems, Anomali’s Security Operations Platform helps security teams deliver intelligent, actionable, and accurate insights to their business.
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Jason Keirstead is VP of Collective Threat Defense at Cyware, where he is working to advance the state-of-the-art in collaborative intelligence, detection and response. He has over 20 years experience in the industry, and is a subject-matter expert in topics such as threat intelligence, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and XDR. Jason also sits on the board of directors of the OASIS Open standards organization, the governing board of the Open Cybersecurity Alliance, and participates in many other organizations in the open security space.
Jay Mar-Tang is AVP, Field CISO at Automated Security Validation leader Pentera. Jay has been in the IT industry over 15 years, with over 10 years of cyber security experience. He earned his CISSP in 2014. During his career he has worked in 3 different geographies which include Mid Atlantic, New York City and the West coast of the United States. He has spent years engineering different solutions for clients of all verticals, such as MFA, DLP, SIEM, network forensics, EDR and Privilege Account management. Most recently after spending numerous years with blue team defensive technologies, Jay has joined Pentera, now advising and engineering red teaming strategies for clients in the west coast, and managing the team of engineers in North America.
Anthony is a seasoned Senior Executive with more than two decades of experience spanning technology Sales, Business Development, Strategic Alliances, Services, and Operations. He showcases a proven aptitude for building robust teams, ensuring exceptional client satisfaction, and surpassing performance objectives. His passion is to help companies think differently about their Security and IT investments, harnessing software and service solutions to enhance business oversight, increase employee satisfaction, and elevate product and service quality.
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