Tools got adopted, workflows changed, and most organizations inherited a security problem that had been building for years. Nearly half of organizations now say they aren't adequately prepared for AI-powered threats, and the knowledge simply hasn't caught up to the pace of deployment.
Beyond Intelligence is a half-day virtual seminar built to help you catch up and get ahead.
Four sessions built around the decisions security leaders and business decision-makers are accountable for: what attackers are doing with AI right now, how to govern adoption before it outpaces your program, what technical controls to put in place and where, and how to build a culture where security holds steady.
Why this, why now?
+72%
rise in AI-assisted attacks in a single year
Source: Deepstrike
1,265%
surge in phishing with generative tools
Source: Deepstrike
88%
of organizations are using AI in at least one business function
Source: QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
8%
maintain a comprehensive governance framework
Source: Evolvance Market Research
Cody Kretsinger
Principal Security Advisor
Cody Kretsinger made worldwide headlines as a hacker. Now he helps organizations stay out of them. He brings a firsthand perspective to the real-world challenges organizations face, sharing insights forged from time on both sides of the digital fence. His work at Galactic is dedicated to helping organizations build smarter, more effective defenses by showing them how attackers think.
Collin Page
CISSP, Security Advisor
Collin Page has over 10 years of experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on regulated industries including healthcare and finance. He helps organizations understand the deeper meaning behind penetration test findings, translating technical vulnerabilities into clear, actionable insights so they can prioritize risk, strengthen their defenses, and prepare for potential incidents with confidence.
Aidan Brown
Senior Security Advisor
Aidan Brown works at the intersection of threat intelligence, security research, and practical strategy. His background is in hands-on experience, not theory, and that perspective shapes everything from his threat research to the security awareness work he does. Aidan helps security teams and the businesses they protect focus on the threats that matter and explains the technical reality in terms that both engineers and executives can act on.
Seth Loe
CISSP, Chief Security Officer
Seth Loe has guided hundreds of organizations through cybersecurity incident response preparedness. Formerly a CIO for a nationwide healthcare provider and director of an MSP's security operations, he combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical expertise. As Galactic's Chief Security Officer, Seth shares lessons from the field through real-world scenarios that help practitioners stick to the plan when it matters most.
01
The AI Threat Landscape: What's Real, What's Hype, What's Next
Cody Kretsinger, Principal Security Advisor
Cody opens the day by mapping what attackers are doing with AI right now: how they're moving faster, hitting vulnerabilities your existing controls weren't built for, and running campaigns at a scale older defenses weren't designed to handle. Typical security conversations on AI start vague and stay that way. This one doesn't. You'll leave the keynote with a specific, accurate picture of what you're up against before the rest of the day builds on it.
02
Built to Enable: Aligning AI Governance with Business Goals
Collin Page, CISSP, Security Advisor
Shadow AI gets most of the attention, but it's not the only problem. The harder one is the decision layer underneath it: who approves new tools, what data those tools can access, and where accountability sits when something goes wrong. Collin walks through the governance structures that give AI adoption real accountability, moving well past acceptable use policies and into the controls that keep deployment from outpacing oversight.
03
Locking It Down: Building the Technical Controls That Mitigate AI Risk
Aidan Brown, Senior Security Advisor
Galactic's Senior Security Advisor Aidan Brown draws on years of hands-on threat research and penetration testing for a session built around what that work produces. He covers the specific technical controls security teams need at each layer — model, agent, data exposure, access control — and explains why each one matters. Where the morning covers what you're up against and how to govern it, this session is about what you implement.
04
AI Leadership Strategy: Cementing a Culture of Security
Seth Loe, CISSP, Chief Security Officer
Good policy doesn't enforce itself. Seth's closing session addresses the part no framework covers: why people work around security requirements and how leadership changes that. Drawing on two decades at the intersection of security and executive decision-making, he walks through what it takes to build a security culture that holds, one where secure AI usage is practiced at every level rather than mandated from the top and quietly ignored everywhere else. This session is the culture-building playbook.
An Open Q&A with all of the speakers will follow.
Who Should Attend
This seminar is designed for security leaders, IT managers, and business decision-makers who are responsible for how their organization uses and secures AI. You don't need a technical background to get value from it. The sessions are built to be clear for practitioners and executives alike.
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Beyond Intelligence
AI isn't slowing down, and neither is the expectation that your organization has a plan for it. Beyond Intelligence is where security leaders and their teams stop diagnosing the problem and start solving it.
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