SANS Zurich Community Night 2026

Join us on Wednesday, the 9th September, for the SANS Zurich Community Night 2026

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Thank you for your interest in our community nights. This event is at capacity – please send an email to MSidamgrotzki@sans.org to confirm if spots are available. Alternatively, you can go on our waitlist.

Join Us for SANS Community Night

SANS Community Nights provide a great way to stay in touch with your local InfoSec community and to hear the latest thought leadership from SANS world-leading instructors.

Join us at the Crowne Plaza Zurich, Badenerstrasse 420, 8040 Zurich, Switzerland.

Why Attend

Shake hands with SANS Faculty, Fellows, and fellow practitioners who are actively solving the hardest security problems

Hear a featured SANS@Night talk, full of expert knowledge, zero cost, no sales pitch

Build real relationships in the SANS community and the broader industry

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026

05:30PM - 06:00PM CEST

In-Person

Have we learned from the past?

2025 was a year of cyberattacks with familiar causes: identity abuse through social engineering, unpatched internet facing systems, over trusted SaaS integrations, and gaps in logging and recovery. Industry reporting shows record ransomware victim counts and a sharp rise in groups, with AI accelerating phishing and data triage —yet the primary root causes remain exploited vulnerabilities and resource gaps. We’ll analyze several incidents to show how they mirror past breaches and how to stop the cycle.

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

06:00PM - 07:00PM CEST

In-Person

Presented by

Jan D'Herdt

CISO Advisor, Enterprise Security Architect

Teaching AI to Hack Web Applications

Can AI autonomously test a web application? We’ll put that claim to the test. Starting with classic web vulnerabilities and the manual methodology behind finding them, we’ll progressively automate the process using a custom agentic workflow. We’ll benchmark the results against other publicly available AI security agents, discuss where they succeed and fail, and share practical lessons learned while designing an effective security-focused agent.

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

07:00PM - 08:00PM CEST

In-Person

Presented by

Jeroen Hoof

Security Operations Specialist at Davinsi Labs

Meet the Speakers

Jan D'Herdt

CISO Advisor, Enterprise Security Architect

Jan D’Herdt is a SANS Certified Instructor teaching LDR512 and SEC566. With experience across Deloitte, IBM, and UCB, he helps organizations implement and transform the CISO organization, and align cybersecurity with governance and business risk.

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Jeroen Hoof

Security Operations Specialist at Davinsi Labs

Train with Jeroen Hoof, SANS Certified Instructor Candidate and incident response specialist, to build hands-on skills in intrusion analysis, attacker mindset, detection engineering, and real-world incident handling.

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SEC536: Adversarial AI - Penetration Testing AI Systems

SANS Zurich Community Night 2026

Thank you for your interest in our community nights. This event is at capacity – please send an email to MSidamgrotzki@sans.org to confirm if spots are available. Alternatively, you can go on our waitlist.

Join Us for SANS Community Night

Why Attend