Winter Cyber Solutions Fest 2026: Finance and Banking

Wed, Feb 11, 2026
9:00AM - 11:20AM EST
English
Jerich Beason
Solutions Forum

Thank You To Our Sponsors

As the financial sector embraces rapid digital transformation, the risks and complexities of cybersecurity have never been greater. The Winter Cyber Solutions Fest 2026: Finance and Banking brings together leaders, innovators, and security experts to explore the evolving threat landscape facing banks, fintech companies, and financial institutions. This year’s fest will spotlight cutting-edge technologies, regulatory challenges, and best practices shaping the future of cybersecurity in finance.

Join us in shaping a secure financial future—where innovation and trust go hand in hand.

Winter Cyber Solutions Fest 2026 Track List:

Healthcare Track | Feb 11
Utilities and Critical Infrastructure Track | Feb 12

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Kick-off

09:00AM - 09:15AM EST

Presented by

Jerich Beason

CISO and Forbes Technology Council

Virtual

From Blind Spots to Business Resilience: Continuous Exposure Management for Hybrid Financial Infrastructure

Financial institutions now operate across complex hybrid environments—cloud, on‑premises, legacy systems, third‑party integrations, and rapidly growing AI deployments—creating risks that traditional, point‑in‑time security programs can’t keep up with. Misconfigurations, identity sprawl, shadow APIs, insecure AI integrations, and fragmented visibility are widening attack surfaces while adversaries exploit these gaps and move seamlessly across environments. This session explores how leading financial organizations are shifting to continuous exposure management to detect risk in real time, prioritize threats by business impact, and automate remediation. Attendees will gain actionable strategies for securing AI adoption, maintaining unified visibility, and strengthening resilience without slowing innovation.

*Sponsored by TrendAI

09:15AM - 09:45AM EST

Presented by

Franz Fiorim

VP of Business Strategy & Customer Success for Financial Services & Global Accounts

Virtual

Autonomous Offensive Security at Scale: Modernizing Penetration Testing for Financial Services

In this session, we demonstrate how XBOW autonomously emulates real attacker behavior to uncover and validate exploitable weaknesses in financial applications. XBOW’s AI agents chain vulnerabilities, execute targeted exploits, and produce reproducible proof, enabling security teams to focus on real risk rather than manual validation. Learn how banks can operationalize continuous, autonomous penetration testing to strengthen security posture while meeting regulatory and delivery demands.

*Sponsored by XBOW

09:45AM - 10:15AM EST

Presented by

Daniel Pajtak

Strategic Solutions Architect

Virtual

You're Hardened, Segmented, and Still at Risk: The Hypervisor Blindspot in Financial Institutions

The rapid adoption of private AI has accelerated virtualization growth—putting hypervisors at the center of modern infrastructure. As a result, they’ve also become a prime attack surface, with attacks targeting ESX surging more than 700% in 2025. Today’s threat actors are bypassing traditional controls entirely, leading to breaches that cost organizations hundreds of millions of dollars and months of operational downtime—particularly across the financial sector. Join Vali Cyber’s Threat Intelligence Lead, Nathan Montierth, as he breaks down real-world attacker playbooks and demonstrates ZeroLock—the first preemptive hypervisor security designed to stop these attacks before damage occurs.

*Sponsored by Valicyber

10:15AM - 10:45AM EST

Presented by

Nathan Montierth

Threat Intel Lead

Virtual

Defending Software Supply Chain Attacks with a Pinned-First Dependency Strategy

Software supply chain attacks like Shai-Hulud demonstrate how attackers can bypass traditional security controls by exploiting automated dependency consumption rather than vulnerable code. By publishing poisoned releases through compromised maintainer accounts, adversaries can move faster than human review and CI/CD defenses. This session examines Shai-Hulud as a modern software supply chain attack and explains why continuous upgrading is not a reliable security strategy in adversarial ecosystems. Attendees will learn how a pinned-first dependency strategy reduces exposure to upstream compromise while preserving operational stability. A practical demonstration shows how pinned libraries and container images can remain secure and eliminate critical and high vulnerabilities through targeted remediation and controlled upgrades, using the Root Automated Vulnerability Remediation platform as an example.

*Sponsored by Root

10:45AM - 11:15AM EST

Presented by

John Amaral

CTO & Co-Founder

Virtual

Closing

11:15AM - 11:20AM EST

Presented by

Jerich Beason

CISO and Forbes Technology Council

Virtual

Meet Your Speaker and Chairperson

Jerich Beason

CISO and Forbes Technology Council

Jerich holds the position of CISO at WM and shares his expertise as a LinkedIn Learning instructor, focusing on leadership and emerging security topics.

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Winter Cyber Solutions Fest 2026: Finance and Banking

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Winter Cyber Solutions Fest 2026 Track List:

Schedule

Kick-off

From Blind Spots to Business Resilience: Continuous Exposure Management for Hybrid Financial Infrastructure

Autonomous Offensive Security at Scale: Modernizing Penetration Testing for Financial Services

You're Hardened, Segmented, and Still at Risk: The Hypervisor Blindspot in Financial Institutions

Defending Software Supply Chain Attacks with a Pinned-First Dependency Strategy

Closing

Meet Your Speaker and Chairperson

Jerich Beason

Kick-off

From Blind Spots to Business Resilience: Continuous Exposure Management for Hybrid Financial Infrastructure

Autonomous Offensive Security at Scale: Modernizing Penetration Testing for Financial Services

You're Hardened, Segmented, and Still at Risk: The Hypervisor Blindspot in Financial Institutions

Defending Software Supply Chain Attacks with a Pinned-First Dependency Strategy

Closing