Navigating Cyber Risk During the Rise of Frontier AI – A Partner Executive Fireside Chat
Date: Thursday, July 23 at 11am PT / 2pm ET
AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace reshaping the threat landscape, accelerating attack timelines, and forcing organizations to rethink how they secure and operate their digital environments. In parallel, emerging concepts like Frontier AI – the convergence of narrative, perception, and cyber risk at the board level – are redefining how leaders evaluate resilience, trust, and business impact.
Join Illumio for a dynamic, executive-level fireside chat featuring industry leaders from well-respected consulting and managed service providers as they unpack what this new era means for enterprises and how to act now.
Moderated by Illumio, this conversation brings together distinct market perspectives including:
- Deloitte focused on delivering strategic transformation at scale and how frontier AI and evolving threat models are reshaping enterprise architecture, risk frameworks, and board-level decision-making
- BT focused on delivering continuous protection including how managed services are evolving to operationalize Zero Trust, contain breaches, and manage AI-driven risk in real time
- World Wide Technology (WWT) focused on bridging innovation to execution including how customers are validating, integrating, and operationalizing AI-driven security solutions in complex environments
Together, the panel will explore:
- The real-world impact of frontier AI on cyber threats and defense strategies
- Why this trend is emerging as a critical lens for cyber resilience and executive alignment
- How Frontier AI accelerates attack speed and complexity beyond human response making breach containment the only reliable control to limit impact
- Which security foundations are best designed for containment: limiting unnecessary connectivity, enforcing least privilege, and verifying every interaction
- What organizations are doing to prioritize containment to transform breaches from enterprise-wide crises into isolated, manageable events enabling true cyber resilience
- What organizations must do now to stay ahead of accelerating risk
Who Should Attend:
- CISOs, CIOs, security and risk leaders, and executives responsible for cyber resilience, digital transformation, and AI strategy.
Key Takeaway:
- Gain actionable insights from across the ecosystem on how to move from strategy to execution leveraging partner expertise and modern segmentation to reduce risk, accelerate resilience, and confidently adopt AI
Don’t just respond to the evolving threat landscape – get ahead of it.
REGISTER NOW to learn how leading partners are helping organizations turn disruption into resilient advantage.
About the presenters:
Andrew Rafla, Partner, Deloitte
Andrew is a Deloitte Cyber Principal who has a deep technology and operations background spanning his more than 25-year career in cybersecurity. He focuses on helping clients enhance operational efficiency while reducing exposure to cyberthreats and managing operational, regulatory, and emerging risks.
Andrew developed Deloitte’s Zero Trust offering, has extensive experience in network and infrastructure security, adversarial simulation, security operations, and threat detection & response. He has served a myriad of clients across industries and is currently the global cyber leader for the Deloitte Microsoft Technology Practice (DMTP), where he aligns Deloitte’s industry-leading cyber services to help clients capitalize on their investments and enhance their security posture.
Mahmood Syed, Principal Cybersecurity Sales Engineer, BT
Mahmood has been a dedicated security practitioner for over 25 years, acting as a trusted advisor to customers on all aspects of cyber security and risk management. His multi-sector experience covers cyber consultancy and strategy, technical design and architecture and managed security services.
Mahmood also represents us at a number of cybersecurity conferences, presenting on the latest security trends, threat landscape and operational security management. Mahmood provides trusted advice on all matters of digital security to both large and small customers.
Rob Joyce, Cyber Security Advisory, Global Cyber Advocacy, World Wide Technology (WWT)
Rob served over 34 years at the NSA, spending his final years as the Director of Cybersecurity. Throughout his career, he held various roles in signals intelligence and cybersecurity, including serving as the head of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), the NSA’s elite hacking unit responsible for operations producing foreign intelligence. He also served on the White House National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator, as well as Acting Homeland Security Advisor.
Rob is now the founder of Joyce Cyber LLC, where he leverages his cybersecurity expertise, serving on boards and advisory roles for organizations including World Wide Technologies, OpenAI, Microsoft, PwC, Nokia of America, DataTribe, and others.
Date: 07/23/2026
Time: 11:00 AM PT
Duration: 1 hour