Security Field Day 16

Security Field Day 16

Security Field Day 16 takes place October 28–30 in Silicon Valley, focusing on autonomous AI agent security, zero-trust architectures, and post-quantum preparedness.

Sessions kick off daily at 8:00 AM PT, featuring presentations from Fortinet, Dell Technologies, and Cisco on Wednesday; HPE Storage, HPE Networking, and Forward on Thursday; and AWS alongside Aviatrix on Friday.

The event streams live on the Tech Field Day website, Techstrong TV, LinkedIn Live, and YouTube, with audience participation hosted across social media.

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  • Fortinet’s Security Fabric and Vision

    Fortinet is much more than a firewall company, we offer a platform of cybersecurity products giving Security professionals what they need to build a secure network. Anthony James, Fortinet’s EVP of Marketing, opened the company’s Security Field Day 16 presentation. He is in his second tour at For...

  • Put AI Agents into Production without Losing Control with Fortinet

    As AI reaches production, agents act independently. FortiAIGate, a self-hosted AI gateway, stops prompt injection and data leaks. Roll out AI faster, with policy, spend, and data under your control. Patrick Bedwell of Fortinet’s product marketing organization presented FortiAIGate at Security Fie...

  • Securing OT Cyber Risk with the Fortinet OT Security Platform

    OT cybersecurity risk provides unique challenges based on OT use cases, devices and threat vectors. The OT Security Platform provides the basic solutions of visibility and segmentation to advanced OT SecOps. Rich Springer, Fortinet’s Senior Director of Product Marketing for OT, presented the OT S...

  • Fortinet and Post Quantum Cryptography: How to be Prepared

    The power of quantum computers changes the encryption landscape. Migrating to algorithms that are quantum resilient is a non-negligible task for companies to tackle. Fortinet can help, from giving crypto visibility across your footprint to integrating crypto agility into our firewalls. At Securit...

  • Advance Cybersecurity and Resilience Maturity for AI with Dell Technologies

    Steve Kenniston of Dell Technologies presents how organizations can advance cybersecurity and resilience maturity for AI. The session covers governance and funding for AI security, agentic AI as a growing attack surface, Dell’s three practice areas of reducing the attack surface, detecting and re...

  • Reimagining Security and Trust for the Agentic Era with Cisco

    Kevin Kennedy of Cisco opened the company’s Security Field Day 16 presentation by framing security and trust for the agentic era. He outlined Cisco’s security imperatives for an AI-armed threat landscape, introduced eBPF-based vulnerability shielding with Live Protect, and explained how agentic A...

  • Stop Attacks Everywhere with Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall

    Tony Giandomenico of Cisco Talos and Ant Ducker of Cisco explained how adversaries are using AI and how Cisco’s hybrid mesh firewall approach is designed to stop attacks everywhere. The session covered AI-assisted and semi-autonomous attack techniques, Cisco’s extension of hybrid mesh firewall to...

  • Cisco Identity and Agentic Ops - Stop Attacks Everywhere

    Gayathri Nagarajan of Cisco explained how Cisco surfaces identity-related risk to stop attacks everywhere. She covered Identity Services Engine, Cisco Identity Intelligence and its trust scores for human and non-human identities, and how Cisco firewalls use those scores in dynamic policy. She the...

  • Stop Attacks Everywhere with Cisco Segmentation

    Ant Ducker of Cisco showed how Cisco builds segmentation and advanced threat prevention for a hyper-distributed application. He demonstrated AI policy discovery, which uses graph-based machine learning to generate candidate micro-segmentation policy. He then explained how Encrypted Visibility Eng...

  • Cisco Threat Hunting - Stop Attacks Everywhere

    Tony Giandomenico and Ant Ducker of Cisco covered the human side of threat detection and the resilience of the infrastructure underneath it. Giandomenico described a human-led threat hunting service designed to catch campaigns before they reach vendor threat intelligence. Ducker outlined privileg...

  • Secure the Workforce with Cisco

    Prabhu Barathi and Aaron Woland of Cisco explained how Cisco is extending zero trust to AI agents as part of securing the workforce. They covered why agents require a shift from access control to action control, agent and non-human identity discovery in Cisco Cloud Control, stream-level visibilit...

  • Cisco Authorize Every Action

    Prabhu Barathi and Neil Patel of Cisco showed how Cisco Secure Access is extending zero trust from controlling access to authorizing every action that users and agents take. They covered AI Access for generative AI, intent-based AI guardrails, an agent gateway that governs LLM, MCP, and SaaS API ...

  • Cisco Data Fabric Agentic SOC

    Neal Iyer of Cisco outlined Cisco’s agentic SOC strategy for defending at machine speed. He covered autonomous defense that combines deterministic and agentic automation, tiered storage on the Cisco Data Fabric to keep costs from scaling with data, and the discovery and prioritization of exposure...

  • Cisco Data Fabric AI Observability - Defend at Machine Speed

    Tapan Shah of Splunk explained how Cisco aims to close the trust gap in agentic AI by unifying observability and security on the Cisco Data Fabric. He covered federated data, correlation at scale, and agent observability capabilities for evaluations, tracing, tokenomics, and guardrails. He then d...

  • HPE Storage Securing Data for the Quantum Era

    Quantum risk is not only about predicting when a cryptographically relevant quantum computer will arrive. Delegates will learn how to identify long-lived data and cryptographic exposure, prioritize migration decisions, build crypto agility, and create a phased post-quantum readiness roadmap that ...

  • HPE Storage Operational Resilience in the AI Era

    As AI increases the value of data, expands operational dependencies, and accelerates cyber threats, organizations need resilience that goes beyond traditional backup. Delegates will learn how an operational resilience strategy can protect hybrid cloud workloads, detect threats earlier, recover ap...

  • HPE Storage Securing the Agentic Workforce

    As AI agents take on more business-critical work, organizations need a strategy for recovering when automated actions disrupt applications, data, or supporting services. Delegates will learn how operational resilience, agent-aware recovery context, and protected backup copies can work as independ...

  • HPE Security in the Al Era: Zero Trust and Al-powered Threat Defense

    Madani Adjali of HPE Networking introduces the company’s SASE and security portfolio, spanning SD-WAN, SSE, network access control, and firewall. The session previews HPE’s Security Field Day agenda on zero trust and AI-powered threat defense, covering Unified SASE, AI-native operations with Edge...

  • HPE Security Reducing Exposure in the AI Era with Unified SASE

    Ram Krishnan of HPE Networking demonstrates how the Unified SASE orchestrator brings SD-WAN connectivity, on-premises firewalling, and cloud security into a single management interface. The session covers intent-based networking and security policy, SSE connectors embedded in EdgeConnect gateways...

  • Extending AI-Native Operations Across the Full Stack with HPE

    Ram Krishnan and a colleague from HPE Networking’s product management team show the first integration of EdgeConnect SD-WAN into the Mist cloud. The session demonstrates onboarding, full-stack troubleshooting that correlates wireless, wired, WAN, and security data, and Marvis agentic analysis of ...

  • HPE Securing Emerging AI Infrastructure with Central NAC

    Mathew George of HPE Networking shows how Aruba Central and its cloud-based Central NAC service support a zero trust approach for complex device estates. Using a fictitious manufacturer, the session covers AI-powered client profiling, tag-based detection of unexpected generative AI traffic, certi...