The speed of cyber risk is changing and the gap between what happens in the threat landscape and what organizations know about it is becoming increasingly consequential. New vulnerabilities, attack techniques, and threat intelligence can emerge in minutes, while security processes are often designed around hours, days, or even weeks.
This Cyber Risk Series brings together industry experts and thought leaders to explore what it means to detect risk at the speed of disclosure and why traditional approaches to security visibility may no longer be enough. Across multiple sessions, we’ll examine the growing gap between when new risk emerges and when organizations recognize, understand, and act on it—and how security leaders can rethink detection in an era defined by AI-driven acceleration.
The conversation will go beyond tools and technology to consider a bigger question: When the threat landscape can change in an instant, how quickly does your organization need to know?
September 23, 2026
9:00 AM PT – 12:00 PM PT
Don’t miss the opportunity to learn from industry experts. Register now.
Featuring
Sumedh Thakar
President and CEO
Qualys
Jeff Crume PhD
Adjunct Professor
NC State University
Alex Pinto
Associate Director, Threat Intelligence
Verizon
Theresa Lanowitz
Principal Analyst, Cybersecurity
Omdia
Andrey Lukashenkov
Chief Product & Growth Officer
Vulners
Himanshu Kathpal
VP Product Management
Qualys
Agenda
9:00 AM PT
Welcome to Cyber Risk Series:
Mind the Gap: From Disclosure to Detection.
9:15 AM PT
The New Speed of Cyber Risk: From Knowing to Acting
Cyber risk is moving at a speed traditional security processes were never designed to match. As AI accelerates both the threat landscape and business adoption, security leaders need to rethink how quickly they detect, prioritize, and act on risk. In this keynote, Sumedh explores why closing the gap between exposure and action is becoming a business imperative—and what it takes to build a security operation that can keep pace.
Sumedh Thakar
President and CEO
Qualys
9:30 AM PT
Session to be announced!
10:00 AM PT
The Clock is Ticking. Defending at AI Speed
The business is adopting AI faster, attackers are moving faster, and security teams are expected to keep up. This session examines the three clocks shaping cyber risk today—and why the defender’s clock must accelerate. Explore how AI-driven detection, risk-based prioritization, and automated response can help security teams move from periodic assessment to continuous awareness, shorten the path from detection to action, and reduce the window of exposure.
Jeff Crume PhD
Adjunct Professor
NC State University
10:30 AM PT
More CVEs, More Risk? What AI Is Really Changing
The business is adopting AI faster, attackers are moving faster, and security teams are expected to keep up. This session examines the three clocks shaping cyber risk today—and why the defender’s clock must accelerate. Explore how AI-driven detection, risk-based prioritization, and automated response can help security teams move from periodic assessment to continuous awareness, shorten the path from detection to action, and reduce the window of exposure.
Alex Pinto
Associate Director, Threat Intelligence
Verizon
Saeed Abbasi
Head of Qualys Threat Research Unit
11:00 AM PT
Session to be announced!
11:30 AM PT
AI-Speed Detections for AI-Led Vulnerability Surge
AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery and shrinking the window defenders have to respond, but many vulnerability programs still operate on scan cycles and severity-based triage. The challenge is no longer simply finding vulnerabilities—it is knowing immediately where they matter and whether they can be exploited. This session explores how continuous detection and machine-speed validation can transform vulnerability response, moving organizations from waiting for scans to acting on timely, evidence-backed risk.
Himanshu Kathpal
VP Product Management
Qualys