From Reactive Defense to Autonomous Security: Rethinking Cyber Resilience in the Age of AI

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What happens when cyberattacks begin to move faster than the organizations defending against them?

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What happens when cyberattacks begin to move faster than the organizations defending against them? AI is fundamentally changing the economics and velocity of cyber risk — against a backdrop of growing geopolitical tensions, increasingly industrialized cybercrime, and the emergence of autonomous AI agents capable of operating at unprecedented speed and scale. The threat is not simply accelerating; its very nature is changing. Defending against this new generation of threats will require more than faster tools or larger security teams — it requires a different operating model. In this keynote, Manuel Bissey will explore the emerging world of Autonomous Security: how AI, automation and human expertise can come together to anticipate threats, continuously prioritize risk and accelerate response. Beyond technology, he will examine what this shift means for cyber resilience, digital sovereignty, governance and trust — and why the journey from reactive defense to autonomous security may become one of the defining transformations of cybersecurity.

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