Security experience.
Practical conversations.
Cybersecurity talks and workshops for leaders, security teams and students, grounded in SOC leadership, investigations and security engineering.
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Choose the conversation your audience needs.
Leading effective security operations
For security leaders and SOC teams.
Explore operating models, analyst development, escalation and the decisions behind reliable response.
Defending AI agents
For SOC, engineering, risk and assurance teams.
Understand the identity, telemetry and containment questions that determine whether agent activity can be investigated.
Incident authority and cyber-risk decisions
For executives and cross-functional response teams.
Examine decision rights, evidence thresholds, risk trade-offs and preparation for containment.
Cyber careers and digital safety
For colleges, schools, educators and families.
Connect practical skill development and career choices with clear, usable online-safety guidance.
Responsible AI that operations can enforce
For governance, risk and security teams.
Connect ISO/IEC 42001 AIMS and NIST AI RMF with human accountability, operational monitoring and incident readiness.
From alerts to business decisions
For CISOs, executives and security leaders.
Examine control effectiveness, uncertainty, risk appetite and investment choices, with clear communication of KPIs and KRIs.
FORMATS
Match the session to the room.
Keynotes and leadership briefings; technical talks, workshops and tabletop exercises; conference panels, college sessions and age-appropriate digital-safety education. Technical depth is adapted to the audience and desired outcome.
SPEAKER BIO
Jessen Kurien
Jessen Kurien is a cybersecurity leader, author and speaker with 18+ years across security operations, incident response, threat intelligence and detection engineering. He spent most of his nearly 15 years at Microsoft in SOC environments, was part of the founding team of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center, and later led detection engineering in Microsoft Defender XDR. His experience combines complex investigations, technical direction and the development of security teams. His public work includes The Defender’s Guide to AI Agents, research articles and open-source tools for cyber defense and risk decisions. He holds five professional certifications: Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Lead Implementer, Certified ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Lead Auditor, and ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer.
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