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Digital transformation remains a top priority for organizations, where global and technology trends continue to drive unprecedented change. Thwarting today’s sophisticated cyberthreats requires a rich security ecosystem, built on industry-leading AI capabilities. As organizations tap into AI, cloud computing and infrastructure modernization to accelerate their missions, questions remain:
- How can organizations enable cyber resilience without hindering the mission?
- How can cyber leaders remain compliant with new government mandates while amplifying cyber efforts?
- What does the AI-driven threat landscape look like today, and what does it mean for organizations with large and complex networks?
- How can organizations design and implement effective defenses against advanced cyberthreats, despite resource constraints?
Register now for the Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Summit 2025, where we’ll bring together cybersecurity decision makers, influencers and practitioners to explore the answers to these questions and so much more.
This unique one-day event features thought-leadership keynotes, technical deep-dives and networking opportunities to help you enable tomorrow’s cybersecurity, today.
Topics will include:
- Network security
- Threat intelligence and security operations
- Cloud security
Please note: Attendees must bring a laptop to participate in the hands-on workshops.
Platformization and AI are hitting the reset button for cybersecurity. What does this look like?
Our presenter will detail the essential steps organizations must take to modernize security from a reactive, manual and fragmented approach to a fully integrated, automated and proactive discipline by:
- Adopting platformization
- Blocking threats in real time
- Being AI-driven
Discover how our security platforms bring simplicity and trust while enabling security teams to help their organizations drive innovation.
Traditional, human-centered SOCs have failed to keep pace. To move faster than today's adversaries, you must transform security operations.
See the Future With Cortex
Join Palo Alto Networks to delve into the power of AI in the realm of cybersecurity. We'll explore Cortex XSIAM® 2.0 — a new way to run the SOC — with an automation-first approach strengthened with AI. Hear from our SecOps expert about how you can leverage an automation-first, AI-powered approach to achieve SOC platform convergence. The Cortex XSIAM platform harnesses the power of AI to detect threats in near real-time and prevent incidents with minimal or no manual effort.
Join us for an essential session led by Unit 42® as we delve into the weaponization of AI. Gain a deeper understanding of the threat landscape, the targets of today's attackers, and the emerging AI-powered threats that organizations face.
During this engaging session, we'll illustrate how attackers leverage AI tools to breach organizations and create new attack vectors. Witness the progression of a breach through the enterprise, fueled by AI, and discover effective strategies to combat AI attacks and maintain a proactive stance against the evolving threat landscape.
Experience the Power of Cortex XDR in Less Than an Hour
The situation: Your boss has read the 2023 Unit 42 Ransomware and Extortion Threat Report. After being alerted of a possible cyberattack targeting your company, concerns arise. You now have 60 minutes to report back if any departments have been affected. How fast can you deliver?
Join this 45-minute session where attendees will dive into how Cortex XDR®:
- Determines if any users are victims.
- Collects endpoint, network and forensics events about the incident.
- Reviews Unit 42 Threat Intelligence to confirm your company is protected.
Welcome to the CNAPP CTF — where expertise meets hands-on action. Get ready for an immersive session guided by cloud security experts.
What You’ll Experience
- Hands-on Training: Dive into a practical expert-led session to elevate your cloud security skills.
- Cloud-Native Best Practices: Uncover the latest trends in cloud-native security.
- Prisma® Cloud in Action: Explore how Prisma Cloud protects applications from code to cloud.
- Interactive Challenges: Test your skills in CNAPP-focused capture-the-flag exercises. Can you top the leaderboard?
Key Learning Points
- Latest cloud security trends.
- Why organizations are making the shift to DevSecOps.
- How CNAPPs can help enable DevSecOps.
- Key considerations when choosing security tools for your organization.
All Cloud Security Practitioners Welcome
If your role involves cloud architecture, cloud security, developer, DevSec, platform engineering, AppSec or IT/infrastructure operations, this workshop is for you!
To stay ahead of today’s sophisticated cyberthreats, you need to be able to know and assess your OT threat surface with accurate asset visibility across all connected cyber-physical systems.
Join Palo Alto Networks for an interactive, hands-on workshop and learn how you can achieve comprehensive Zero Trust security for OT devices and networks.
Sign up for this session and get tools you can use to:
- Enable accurate segmentation and least-privileged access control.
- Implement trust monitoring with 24/7 risk assessment.
- Simplify operations with continuous security inspection.
With great AI-led power, comes great responsibility — and Strata Cloud Manager™ from Palo Alto Networks beats the challenge, delivering automated, instant AI-powered insights that not only support your IT teams, but also enhance efficiency and strengthen security.
Join us to learn how you can simplify operations with AI-powered Threat Detection and monitoring capabilities. Our network security experts will demonstrate how to easily manage your network security infrastructure — including NGFWs and SASE — from the cloud, via one unified management interface.
Find out how you can:
- Predict and prevent operational disruptions.
- Improve comprehensive observability.
- Forecast capacity requirements for growth.
- Write secure configurations with real-time best practice compliance checks.
Attendees from the public sector (defined as employees of the Alberta government, local, federal and municipal government and education employees) should consult their internal compliance requirements and obtain approval from the appropriate ethics or compliance official prior to accepting an invitation to any event offering gratuitous items such as meals and other business courtesies.
If you have any questions about this event, please reach out to Natalie Martysiewicz at nmartysiewic@paloaltonetworks.com.
Sam Rubin is a vice president for Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks. Sam has spent his career helping companies respond to cyberthreats, ranging from rogue insiders to nation-state threat actors. He has deep expertise in matters involving theft of intellectual property, incident response, e-forgery, leaks of confidential information, and information security best practices. He also maintains an active docket of cases, serving as an expert witness in digital forensics.
Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Sam was a Managing Director with Stroz Friedberg. There, he led technical teams in a variety of cyber-related engagements, including Digital Forensic investigations, IT security risk assessments, and data breach incident response. Sam received his B.A. in Political Science from Emory University.
As chief information officer, Meerah is responsible for Palo Alto Networks’ global information technology functions, driving a comprehensive strategy to scale and rapidly deliver innovative solutions for our worldwide teams.
Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks in 2022, Meerah was CIO at Citrix and held past leadership roles at McAfee, Forcepoint, Cisco and Infosys. Meerah deeply understands the IT challenges across the industry, among organizations of all sizes.
Meerah holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science & Engineering from the Thiagarajar College of Engineering at Anna University in Chennai, India. She also holds a Master’s of Business Administration from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.
Simone leads Palo Alto Networks Strategy and Go To Market team for our Network Security portfolio. In his role, he engages globally with Customers, to help them pursue the next leg of their Zero Trust journey, and with Partners, to ensure they’re fully equipped to bring Palo Alto Networks’ Zero Trust platform to their customers. Prior to leading the Network Security GTM team, Simone led GTM for our SASE business and worked with the executive team to set up the growth strategy for the company and build some of our key company assets (PANFS, ELAs, FLEXWork, etc). Simone started his career at McKinsey, where he spent more than a decade and was a leader in the Firm’s Fast Growth Tech practice. He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, and he was trained as a computer science engineer. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and two young daughters.
Heather is a cyber security executive, leveraging 30 years of experience in both the public and private sectors to advance innovative technology solutions that benefit both governments and citizens.
She is never one to run away from a challenge, including the work needed to strengthen Canada’s cyber security posture across the public sector. Having worked for companies such as Bell, Cisco and Zscaler advancing cyber security strategies at all levels of government, Heather now leads Palo Alto Networks Canadian Public Sector practice where she helps governments transform securely with the power and scale of cloud through modern workplace enablement, infrastructure modernization and Zero Trust Security.
By helping governments embrace the cloud, Heather is helping public sector leaders at all levels of government strengthen cybersecurity.
Caroline Cameron works at Deloitte in Ottawa as Director of cybersecurity. Caroline leads digital transformations, ensures compliance with national and international cybersecurity standards, and aims to achieve continuous and agile security posture management.
Before joining Deloitte in 2022, Caroline worked within the federal government for 20 years, leading the Cloud Program at the Joint Defense Department of the Ministry of National Defense and as director of cybersecurity programs aimed at securing critical infrastructure of national interest within the Center of telecommunications security.
Raheel Qureshi has over 20 years of experience helping organizations excel in the areas of cybersecurity, Cloud and Digital Technology Transformation in a variety of industries including financial, Public, private and healthcare sector. He has been very active in Ontario Health (OH) Regional Security Operations (RSOC) Strategy and has supports multiple organizations managing their Cybersecurity & Technology Risk.
He has been leading multiple Cybersecurity Incident Response (IR) engagements across the various sector and brings years of experience with Breach Response.
Raheel is also a Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) and founded NKST which has a mandate to bring collaboration to life and talk about real issues leaders are facing in managing Cyber Risk.
Daniel Kroese is a cyber policy veteran who is Palo Alto Networks Senior Director of U.S. Government Affairs. In this role he leads efforts interfacing with Capitol Hill and brings a wealth of Legislative and Executive Branch cybersecurity experience to the company.
Daniel most recently served as the Staff Director to Ranking Member Katko on the House Homeland Security Committee. In this role, he formulated and advanced an aggressive bipartisan cybersecurity agenda for the committee.
He previously served as a top lieutenant to Director Krebs at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) where he was active in legislative affairs and policy activity as well as responsible for standing up several of CISA’s risk management collaboration efforts with the private sector. Prior to joining CISA, Daniel was the Chief of Staff to then Congressman John Ratcliffe who chaired the House Homeland Cybersecurity Subcommittee.
At Palo Alto Networks, he leverages this experience to lead the Cybersecurity Strategy & Global Policy team’s effort to drive legislative advocacy that promotes greater resilience throughout the entire cybersecurity ecosystem.
Daniel is an avid rock climber and outdoor enthusiast and lives with his wife and son in Virginia. As a Seattle, WA native, defending his hometown’s weather and sports has remained a full-time hobby.
Tony Olsen retired from the Canadian Forces after a long and decorated military career as a technical specialist.
After retiring from the military Tony joined CSE where he led key operational, technical, and analytical mission areas within CSE with responsibilities for strategy, implementation, daily management of personnel, resources, operations, projects and budgets.
Most recently Tony led the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security’s group responsible for external relationships with the worldwide ICT sector, CSE’s external vulnerability disclosure process, and CSE’s engagement with Canada’s Innovation sector supporting cybersecurity innovation.
He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, medals and commendations highlighted by: the Chief of the Defence Staff Commendation, The Head of the Public Service Award for “compassion, humanity, dedication to duty in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the United States of America”, the Public Service Award of Excellence for Leadership and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
He is an avid golfer and a diehard member of Red Sox nation and the Buffalo Bills Mafia.
