Café Cyber – Managing the attack surface in the age of AI

The rise of artificial intelligence offers new opportunities to accelerate research, improve productivity and automate repetitive tasks. However, with these advances also come new challenges that cybersecurity professionals need to consider. For example, the “Echoleak” vulnerability showed that AI agents, such as Copilot, can be used to access information without resorting to malware or direct user interaction. The ability to hijack AI assistants as “insider threats” is helping to expand organizations’ attack surface. In this presentation, we’ll look at how the attack surface is evolving in the age of AI.

Presented by :

Tiago de Jesus, Senior Manager | Cyber Defense & Resilience, Deloitte LLP

Tiago de Jesus is a Senior Manager at Deloitte Canada and has over 15 years’ experience in cybersecurity, in both IT and TO environments. He began his career with the RCMP’s National Security Program, where he started out as an intelligence specialist before becoming head of the cyber unit. He then set up the National Energy Infrastructure Testing Centre (NEITC) at Natural Resources Canada, where he delivered hands-on “red team vs. blue team” SCADA training to operators of Canada’s critical energy infrastructures. He then founded a cybersecurity company before joining Deloitte to develop the Attack Surface Management practice.