When: August 05, 2026 [1200 - 1630]
Where: Frontier RTP Building 800 [800 Park Offices Drive, RTP] / Online Via Teams
Registration: Teams Registration
CPEs: Upto to 4
Session 0: Interviewing - Know your stories! [1200-1245 in-person only)
Speaker: John Fehan
John Fehan has helped clients in the consumer-packaged goods, financial, education, and healthcare industries improve and secure their IT infrastructure. He has worked in data centers, network operations centers, and aboard cruise ships under sail. He is a past Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) and a US Army veteran. He earned his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Duke University.
Session 1: The New Human-Machine Partnership in Cybersecurity [1300-1430]
A conversation about AI in the Security Operations Center: the future is not analysts versus machines, but a deliberate partnership between the two. Drawing on patterns from more than two hundred enterprise SOC programs, the talk walks a six-step roadmap (AI and ML literacy, prompt engineering, automation and SOAR, unified platforms, human-machine teaming, and continuous learning) that doubles as a curriculum framework for cybersecurity faculty. Along the way, it unpacks the practical differences between traditional ML/DL and large language models in the SOC, surfaces five anti-patterns derailing AI adoption today, and shows an anonymized eighteen-month transformation in which MTTR drops by ninety-two percent without adding headcount. Five live polls keep the audience working alongside the speaker, and the closing reframes every step as an explicit invitation: the analyst your program will produce three years from now is the one this future SOC is waiting for.
Speaker: Matthew Dobbs, Field CTO, Cyberbit
Session 2: Data Disrepect: The End of Infinite Storage [1445-1615]
"Data Disrespect: The End of Infinite Storage," traces the evolution of digital storage from the era of punch cards to the high-capacity drives of today. Historically, a decades-long collapse in storage costs—plummeting from $1 million per megabyte in 1967 to roughly two centss by 2023—has fostered a pervasive "Basement Mentality" among micro-businesses.
The narrative pivots to the current Memory Super-Cycle of the last two years, a period of Structural Memory Repricing where the historical trend of declining costs has been violently reversed. Driven by the voracious demand for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) to fuel generative AI infrastructure, The presentation concludes with a tactical framework for an Annual Digital Spring Cleaning.
Speaker: Karl Gyorfy, CISA, CPA
Karl Gyorfy, CISA, CPA, is a retired Cyber Security Auditor from BB&T (now
Truist) with over 30 years of experience across IT and various accounting
positions. He currently serves as a part-time instructor for the CIS program at ECPI University.
Karl holds a Master’s degree in Information Security from East Carolina University, as well
as an MBA and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of
Wisconsin. A licensed CPA in Texas, Karl specializes in translating enterprise-level security
standards into affordable, manageable solutions for small business environments.