PANEL: Faster Than Our Guardrails - AI on Offence, Defence, and Everything in Between
Led by Matt Holland, CEO, Field Effect
PANEL: Faster Than Our Guardrails - AI on Offence, Defence, and Everything in Between
Frontier models now find bugs, write exploits and reverse malware at a pace that seemed out of reach two years ago. At the same time, organizations are giving AI agents credentials and production access, often with little visibility into what those agents actually do. This panel, moderated by Field Effect founder and CEO Matt Holland, brings together people who build offensive capability with AI and people who defend against it, to separate the real shift from the hype. Where has AI changed exploit development and malware tradecraft, and where does human expertise still decide the outcome? Which doomsday scenarios deserve attention from governments and critical infrastructure operators, and which are distractions? And when the tools are nondeterministic and change underneath you, what do meaningful visibility, governance and control look like?
PANELISTS
- Daria Bahrami, Dreadnode
- Po Tea-Duncan, GC CISO, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
- Bruce Dang, Calif.io
Matt Holland
Matt Holland started his career at the Communications Security Establishment in 1999, Matt spent seven years in the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group as a leading security researcher specializing in intelligence tradecraft for key top-secret projects for the Five Eyes. In 2007, he co-founded Linchpin Labs because he saw the opportunity to provide better solutions to democratic governments and corporate clients globally.
Over the next 12 years, Matt helped grow Linchpin to be a silent leader in the privatized intelligence industry - achieving success despite being considerably smaller than typical allied defense companies. If a problem was considered too hard or too expensive to solve, it landed on Linchpin’s plate.
Linchpin was acquired by L3 in 2018.
Matt is the CEO and founder of Field Effect. The company is on track to turn the global cyber security landscape on its head by creating world-leading technology and tradecraft to protect companies of all sizes from modern cyber security threats.
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