Topic: Ethical Hacking in the Era of AI: Securing Modern Cyber Threats
Abstract: The cybersecurity threat landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by AI-enabled attacks, increasingly sophisticated adversaries, cloud adoption, and expanding digital ecosystems. Traditional security assessments often struggle to keep up with emerging attack techniques, making proactive security testing more critical than ever. Ethical hacking provides organizations with a powerful approach to identifying vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.
The current webinar explores how ethical hacking practices are adapting to modern cyber threats and evolving enterprise environments. The session examines current attacker methodologies, advanced penetration testing techniques, and the growing role of automation and artificial intelligence in offensive security. Join us to learn how security professionals simulate real-world attacks to assess security posture across networks, applications, cloud environments, identities, and AI-powered systems.
Key Takeaways:
- Understanding the modern threat and security landscape
- Emerging attack vectors targeting cloud, identity, API, and AI-driven systems
- Ethical hacking techniques for cloud-native and hybrid environments
- Impact of AI on offensive and defensive cybersecurity operations
- Role of red teaming, adversary simulation, and continuous security validation
- How automation enhances penetration testing and vulnerability discovery
- Best practices for prioritizing and remediating identified security weaknesses
Speaker:
Jayson Ferron, CEO of Interactive Security Training, LLC.
Bio: Jayson Ferron is a multi-certified Information Security Subject Matter Expert with more than 40 years of professional experience spanning security and compliance, integration and transformation initiatives, information security management, and operational metrics definition and documentation. His clients include Community Health Network of Connecticut (CHNCT), Cigna Insurance, Microsoft, Rogers Communications, GM, AT&T, the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and DISA, as well as banks, government agencies, and healthcare organizations.
