January 29, 2026
Time: 1:00 pm ET | 10:00 am PT
Speakers: Paul Asadoorian, Principal Security Researcher and Chase Snyder, Director of Product Marketing

Accelerating network edge cyberattacks. AI hardware vulns. Bootkits and UEFI ransomware on the rise. LLMs can reverse engineer firmware. 2026 is gearing up to push cybersecurity to the edge.

Join Paul Asadoorian for a fast-paced look back at the biggest cybersecurity developments of 2025, and what defenders should be preparing for in 2026. We’ll break down what’s changing, what’s escalating, and what “staying ahead” really looks like in a world where attackers prioritize persistence, stealth, and control below the OS.

This session will cover:

• Network infrastructure as a primary target: when VPNs and firewalls add more risk than they mitigate, and attackers exploit vulns 6x faster than they get patched, what do defenders need to do differently
• AI’s real impact on security operations and threats: where LLMs change attacker tradecraft, and how defenders can use AI without increasing risk
• Bootkits, UEFI vulns, and below-OS persistence: what we learned in 2025, what “breaks next,” and why firmware remains an attacker’s best foothold to persist and evade detection.