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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HPE Fighting AI with AI: Defending Against Zero-Day Threats
Pradeep Hattiangadi and Naveen Toopran of HPE Networking demonstrate the adaptive threat defense framework for SRX firewalls, driven entirely from a third-party AI assistant. Using skills built on the Junos MCP server, the Juniper Secure Analytics MCP server, and Security Director Cloud APIs, the...
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Forward Verified Exposure Management
Brandon Heller and Renata Budko of Forward previewed a new approach to exposure management built on the company’s network digital twin. The session examined how AI-driven vulnerability discovery is outpacing remediation, why existing exposure assessment tools leave gaps, and how a complete, verif...
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Forward Digital Twin in Action Demo
Renata Budko and Brandon Heller of Forward demonstrated Forward Threat Exposure, a preview application that uses the company’s network digital twin to prioritize vulnerable servers by actual reachability. The session showed exposure analysis from multiple entry points, hop-by-hop attack paths, AI...
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Authentic Authorization and Audit for Agentic AI on AWS
Jeff Lombardo of Amazon Web Services demonstrated how AgentCore handles authentication, authorization, and audit for agentic AI. Using a fictional retail company, the session walked through AgentCore Runtime, Gateway, Identity, and Policy, covering JWT-based access to agents, credential translati...
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AWS Security at Machine Speed
Ram Ramani of Amazon Web Services explained what security at machine speed means as AI coding agents multiply the code and changes reaching production. The session introduced AWS Continuum, covering continuously updated threat models, agentic penetration testing on every deploy, and context-drive...
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AWS Network Firewall and Route 53 DNS Firewall Deep Dive
Jesse Lepich of Amazon Web Services took a deep dive into AWS Network Firewall and Route 53 DNS Firewall, explaining how the two services secure both the routed and recursive DNS egress paths in AWS environments. The session covered Network Firewall’s managed architecture, MadPot-powered active t...
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AWS Console Walkthrough and Demo
Ian Olson of Amazon Web Services introduced AWS Network Security Manager, the newly launched successor to AWS Firewall Manager for centrally managing AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced. The session demonstrated how policies, scopes, and deployments let central security teams, application teams, and ...
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Aviatrix Contain the Blast Radius Without Breaking the App
Chris McHenry of Aviatrix demonstrates how the Cloud Native Security Fabric contains a compromised cloud workload without disrupting applications. The session walks through Aviatrix’s see, insert, enforce, and operate approach, covering agentless gateway insertion, monitor-mode policy simulation,...
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Aviatrix Blast Radius Economics - Pricing What a Compromise Can Reach
Willie Tejada of Aviatrix introduces Blast Radius Economics, an open framework for pricing what a single compromised system can reach. The session explains reachable value at risk, built from system value, reachable share, probability, and time to contain, and positions it alongside CVE-based pat...
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Aviatrix We Scored Our Own Security Plan - Here's What Changed
Matt Snyder of Aviatrix presents durable risk reduction, a scoring model that ranks security work by how much it shrinks an attacker’s reach and how long it holds up, weighed against effort, technical debt, and cost. He shares results from scoring Aviatrix’s own Q3 security plan with an AI agent ...