Summit Panel: Ask Us Anything: Straight Answers on AI
John Strand, Bronwen Aker, Hayden Covington, Jason Haddix, BB King and Ashley Knowles
August 14 @ 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm ET
What does AI actually change about how we attack, defend, and think about security, and what’s just noise?
Join John Strand, Founder/Owner of Black Hills Information Security, Jason Haddix, Hacker in Charge at Arcanum, and BHIS experts for a live, no-filter AMA to close out our AI summit.
Bring your hardest questions about AI agents in production, offensive and defensive tradecraft, what’s working in the real world, and where the industry is headed — and get straight answers from people who’ve spent the past year doing the work.
No agenda: just answers.
Chat with your fellow AI Summit attendees in the Antisyphon Discord server: https://discord.gg/antisyphon
This talk is part of Antisyphon Training’s Infosec: Age of AI Summit, a free, six-hour, live virtual event designed to give you a practical, real-world look at how cyber experts are using AI and what security professionals need to know as adoption grows.
For those who want to go further, high-quality, affordable hands-on workshops are available Aug. 17-18 to help you learn AI security concepts, techniques, and tactics.
See the entire Antisyphon Training Course Catalog for affordable cybersecurity training!
Kip Boyle will teach the workshop Hunting Shadow AI on Sept. 25.
About the Instructor
John Strand
Bio
John Strand has both consulted and taught hundreds of organizations in the areas of security, regulatory compliance, and penetration testing. He is a coveted speaker and much-loved SANS teacher. John is a contributor to the industry-shaping Penetration Testing Execution Standard and 20 Critical Controls frameworks.
Bronwen Aker
Bio
Bronwen Aker is a cybersecurity professional, data scientist, and veteran technical educator with more than forty years of public speaking experience. She began her career as a full-stack web developer before moving into penetration testing and other aspects of cybersecurity, earning both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in cybersecurity, along with industry certifications including GSEC, GCIH, and GCFE. Bronwen’s work bridges defensive security, applied data science, and the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, where she focuses on making AI both reliable and safe.
Hayden Covington
Bio
Hayden Covington is a Senior Analyst in Black Hills Information Security’s SOC where he specializes in training, quality assurance, detection engineering, and investigative analysis. With a previous background as a SOC analyst for a US naval contractor, Hayden has extensive experience in Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR), and insider threat.
Jason Haddix
Bio
Jason Haddix, also known as jhaddix, is the CEO and “Hacker in Charge” at Arcanum Information Security. Arcanum is a world-class assessment and training company.
Jason has had a distinguished 20-year career in cybersecurity, previously serving as CISO of FLARE, CISO of Buddobot, CISO of Ubisoft, Head of Trust/Security/Operations at Bugcrowd, Director of Penetration Testing at HP, and Lead Penetration Tester at Redspin. He has also held positions doing mobile penetration testing, network/infrastructure security assessments, and static analysis. Jason is a hacker and bug hunter and is currently ranked 57th all-time on Bugcrowd’s bug bounty leaderboards. Currently, he specializes in recon, web application analysis, and emerging technologies. Jason has also authored many talks on offensive security methodology, including speaking at conferences such as DEFCON, Bsides, BlackHat, RSA, OWASP, Nullcon, SANS, IANS, BruCon, Toorcon and many more.
BB King
Bio
BB started pentesting professionally in 2008 at the largest financial services company you’ve never heard of. As the second hire on the application security team, he helped define standards and grow the team to a group of more than 30 testers. Through teaching in that environment and elsewhere, he has come to believe that the keys to success are a strong interest in how things work, a willingness to ask questions, and an ability to work through discouragement when things don’t work.
Ashley Knowles
Bio
Ashley Knowles joined Black Hills Information Security (BHIS) in Fall 2021. As a Security Consultant, Ashley’s role is to perform network (internal/external), social engineering, and cloud penetration tests, as well as participating in red team assessments. Since joining the infosec community in 2013, she has developed and taught hacking classes, worked as a security consultant, and been a team lead on a red team. Ashley serves as a mentor at a local high school’s cybersecurity class and, as someone who loves to learn and teach, she looks forward to developing and teaching classes that add to BHIS’s educational catalogue. In her free time, Ashely enjoys photography, hiking and exploring new places with her kids, and building Legos.
