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What Lies Ahead?
To kick off Cyber Month LIVE 2026, Gamma’s Director of Cybersecurity, Jason Simper, and Head of Security Operations, Tom Shaw, explore some of the major shifts already beginning to reshape cyber security and the questions security leaders should be asking as a result.
This opening discussion sets the scene for the month ahead and introduces many of the themes we’ll be exploring throughout October.
2026 Cyber Month Sessions
Session type: On Demand
Date: 1st October
Cyber Month LIVE 2026 opens with a discussion on the major shifts already beginning to reshape the cyber security landscape and the decisions organisations should be making today to prepare for the next 3–5 years.
Hosted by Jason Simper, Cyber Director and Tom Shaw, Head of Security Operations at Gamma the opening session will set the scene for the discussions that follow throughout Cyber Month LIVE 2026.
The session will focus on:
- What happens when AI starts influencing security decisions?
- Why trust is becoming one of cyber security’s biggest challenges
- Whether today’s foundations are ready for what’s next
- The growing dependence on suppliers, platforms and AI-enabled services
- How threats are becoming harder to recognise and understand
- The decisions organisations should be making now to prepare for the next 3–5 years
Together, Jason and Tom will explore the trends, risks and technologies that organisations may not be paying enough attention to today before they become the defining cyber security challenges of tomorrow, while introducing the themes that will run throughout the rest of the Cyber Month LIVE programme.
Jason SimperCyber Director, Gamma
Tom ShawHead of Security Operations, Gamma
Session type: Live
Date: 12th October
Across four operator leaks, Conti (2022), Black Basta and LockBit (2025), and The Gentlemen (2026), the tooling changed, but the attack gaps remained the same. Different crews, four years apart, continued to exploit valid credentials, trusted administrative tools and existing access paths to move through environments undetected.
Drawing on leaked operator chats and real-world breach investigations, this session explores why intrusions continue to succeed against well-defended organisations and the patterns that attackers exploit time and time again.
The session will explore:
- Why attackers continue to succeed despite increasing security investment
- The attack gaps that exist between identity, cloud, endpoint and network controls
- How valid credentials and trusted tools are being used to bypass existing defences
- Why some of the most dangerous attacks generate little or no obvious warning signs
- How AI is accelerating existing attacker techniques rather than creating entirely new ones
- Which attack gaps organisations should be paying closer attention to over the next 3–5 years
Following the briefing, Gamma and Vectra AI will discuss whether attack gaps are becoming harder to see as organisations become more connected, how AI is changing both attacker and defender behaviour, and what security leaders should be doing today before these visibility gaps become tomorrow’s biggest security challenges.
Lucie CardietCyberthreat Research Manager, Vectra AI
Session type: Live
Date: 15th October
Identity has always been central to cyber security, but in an AI-driven world, proving who, or what, can be trusted is becoming far more complex.
As deepfakes, synthetic identities and autonomous AI agents blur the lines between human and machine, organisations face a growing challenge: how do you establish trust, verify identity and maintain control when traditional signals of authenticity can no longer be relied upon?
In this Cyber Month LIVE session, Scott McKinnon, UK Chief Security Officer at Palo Alto Networks, joins us to explore how trust and identity must evolve in an AI-driven world, the new risks emerging from human and non-human identities, and what security leaders should be doing now to enable AI adoption without placing trust on autopilot.
The discussion will focus on:
- How AI is changing trust and identity
- The risks posed by deepfakes, synthetic identities and AI-enabled attacks
- Managing human and non-human identities
- Why authentication alone is no longer enough
- Applying identity-first and Zero Trust principles in an AI-driven world
- Balancing innovation, security and governance
Scott McKinnonField Chief Security Officer UK&I, Palo Alto
Session type: Live
Date: 20th October
AI, automation and increasingly autonomous systems are placing new demands on enterprise networks, infrastructure and security architectures.
As organisations prepare for AI-enabled operations, broader Zero Trust adoption and longer-term challenges such as post-quantum cryptography, the decisions being made today around networks, infrastructure and security will play a critical role in determining how prepared they are for what’s next.
In this Cyber Month LIVE panel discussion, Haleem Gul, Gamma Group Network and Security Director, and Hendrik Blokhuis, Senior Director and CTO, Partner Organisation EMEA at Cisco, will explore the infrastructure, networking and security decisions organisations need to make today to prepare for the next 3–5 years.
The discussion will focus on:
- What it really means to be AI-ready
- Why networking and security are becoming one conversation
- How Zero Trust must evolve for an AI-enabled world
- The foundations needed to support agentic AI securely at scale
- When organisations should start preparing for post-quantum cryptography
- The infrastructure and security decisions that will matter most over the next 3–5 years
Together, Haleem and Hendrik will discuss how organisations can build resilient, future-ready foundations that support AI adoption, emerging technologies and the next era of cyber security.
Hendrik BlokhuisSenior Director and CTO, Partner Organisation EMEA, Cisco
Haleem GulGroup Network and Security Director, Gamma
Session type: Live
Date: 21st October
AI is transforming how organisations operate, but every new AI capability, SaaS platform or third-party service introduces additional dependencies that can be difficult to see, understand and govern.
As organisations become increasingly reliant on suppliers, AI-enabled services and external platforms, security leaders face a growing challenge: how do you maintain visibility and control while continuing to adopt new technologies?
In this Cyber Month LIVE discussion, Gamma and Panorays will explore how AI is changing the third-party risk landscape, the hidden dependencies organisations are creating, and what security leaders should be doing now to manage risk across the extended enterprise.
The discussion will focus on:
- How AI is changing the third-party risk conversation
- The visibility challenge across suppliers, SaaS platforms and AI services
- Shadow AI and hidden dependencies
- What organisations are underestimating about AI-enabled ecosystems
- Balancing innovation, speed and governance
- What third-party risk management should look like over the next five years
Kerry BiranTechnical Security Consultant, Gamma
Gauri BathThird Party Risk Manager, Gamma
Matthew PearsonPanorays
Session type: Live
Date: 27th October
AI is beginning to reshape security operations, but the future SOC will not be defined by automation alone. It will be defined by trust.
As organisations increasingly rely on AI to investigate alerts, correlate activity and support decision-making, security leaders face a new challenge: understanding what AI should be trusted to do, what remains firmly human-led, and how that trust is earned over time.
Trust in the SOC has always been built on evidence, transparency and results. The same applies to AI. Analysts need to understand how conclusions are reached, validate outcomes against known incidents and determine where human judgement should remain non-negotiable.
In this Cyber Month LIVE panel discussion, Thomas Connely, Head of Operations at Gamma and Joe Fera, Field CISO at Dropzone AI, Gamma, will explore how AI earns a security team’s trust, how that trust evolves from assistance to autonomy, and what the relationship between analysts and AI could look like in the SOC of the future.
The discussion will focus on:
- What should AI be trusted to do inside the SOC today?
- What gives security teams confidence to trust AI recommendations and decisions?
- How trust evolves from AI assistance to greater autonomy
- Where human judgement should remain non-negotiable
- What the relationship between analysts and AI could look like by 2030
- What security leaders should be doing today to prepare for the future SOC
Thomas ConnellyHead of Operations, Gamma
Joe FeraField CISO, DropZone AI
Session Type: On Demand
As AI changes how attackers operate, the signals security teams have traditionally relied on are becoming harder to spot. Social engineering attacks are becoming more convincing, communication channels are multiplying, and malicious activity is increasingly blending into everyday business operations.
In this Cyber Month LIVE podcast discussion, Javvad Malik, CISO Advisor at KnowBe4, joins Gamma to explore how attacker behaviour is evolving, what this means for organisations, and the security challenges that may become far more significant over the next few years.
The discussion will focus on:
- How AI is changing attacker behaviour
- Why threats are becoming harder to recognise
- The growing use of channels such as Teams, WhatsApp and collaboration platforms
- What human risk looks like in an AI-enabled workplace
- The security implications of AI becoming a workplace colleague
- What organisations should be paying more attention to today before these challenges become more difficult to manage
Jason SimperCyber Director, Gamma
Javvad MalikCISO Advisor, KnowBe4
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