SEC595: Applied Data Science and AI/Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Professionals



Ismael is a Senior SANS Instructor and Arctic Wolf VP. Author of SEC530 and a prestigious GSE-certified expert, he blends decades of SOC, threat research, and community contributions to equip defenders with resilient, adversary-aware strategies.
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The rise of AI-driven attacks —like the recent Anthropic-generated multi-stage attack—shows AI-orchestrated attacks at every stage. Bad actors are now using AI to execute recon, gain lateral movement, and achieve privilege escalation at machine speed using massive parallelism. This reality forces a new approach to threat hunting, challenging CTI assumptions as AI agents adapt rapidly and bypass traditional controls. This session will demonstrate how deception technology delivers high-fidelity, intent-based signals to disrupt AI-driven kill chains. We will detail the Anthropic attack case study and demonstrate how deception-based detection provides CTI teams with repeatable, high-context intelligence on AI-enabled threats.
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*Sponsored by Zscaler
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Join Eric Clay, CMO and Research Team Co-Lead at Flare, for a straightforward walkthrough of the cybercrime underground. This session breaks down the structure of dark web forums, marketplaces, and closed communities, explaining what they are, how they function, and why they matter to defenders. The session will conclude with a live demo of Flare, illustrating how organizations can monitor these underground spaces to identify threats and exposures earlier.
*Sponsored by Flare Systems
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CTI based Agentic AI is changing the face of the SOC operations. This talk will dive into a case study of how a Managed Security Services Provider is leveraging Agentic AI for scaling out analyst’s operations and dramatically improving mean-time-to-detection (MTTD). The following Agentic AI driven SOC use cases will be discussed: Alert Triage True / False Positive Validation True Positive Alert Prioritization IOC Harvesting and AI Driven Detection Engineering Participants will learn about the target use cases, the impacts on real world operations, the training data used, and key requirements for success.
*Sponsored by ReversingLabs
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