Cyber resilience is the focus of this session, setting the stage for how organisations can strengthen stability amid growing complexity. Attendees will explore how resilience improves when human judgement is paired with the practical use of artificial intelligence, not treated as its replacement. The discussion will show how AI can support everyday decisions, sharpen detection and response, and strengthen long-term planning. The session also addresses rising third-party and supply chain risk, outlining why greater visibility and assurance are now essential. With clear governance and continuous assessment, AI becomes a tool that enhances oversight and builds confidence in critical dependencies. Attendees will leave with an understanding for combining human insight, AI enablement and robust supplier management into a cohesive model for resilient, sustainable growth.

Cyber attackers in 2025 are not relying on theoretical weaknesses, they are exploiting real, high-impact vulnerabilities affecting organisations across Africa today. This session focuses on the attack paths that are delivering measurable damage in the region: identity compromise, exposed services, API weaknesses, misconfigured cloud environments and supply chain exposure. We examine why these vulnerabilities persist, how adversaries chain them together, and how quickly compromise can occur once an initial foothold is gained.

Beyond traditional risks, we explore the rapidly expanding AI attack surface. As organisations integrate AI chatbots, fintech decision engines, customer onboarding journeys and AI-enabled software development into critical business processes, they are introducing new classes of vulnerability, from prompt injection and data leakage to model abuse and insecure AI-generated code.

Through practical demonstrations, this session will show how these weaknesses are actively exploited, and what controls can meaningfully reduce risk.

This session centres on a real-world case study showing how one organisation transformed its security culture and achieved tangible, measurable improvement. Rather than focusing purely on theory, the talk follows the practical steps the organisation took to identify the behavioural pitfalls attackers exploit, address the cognitive biases that shape decision-making and dismantle the cultural barriers that had held back progress.

Attendees will see how targeted interventions, continuous engagement and clear measurement turned security from a box-ticking exercise into a shared mindset. The case study demonstrates how an organisation built a more confident, accountable and adaptable workforce, and provides a model that others can replicate to strengthen behaviour, improve awareness and embed lasting cultural change.

Security operations are being reshaped by an environment where threats evolve faster than human teams can track them. This session explores how AI is transforming the SOC into a more adaptive, efficient and resilient function. It examines how intelligent systems can reduce alert fatigue, enhance threat detection, accelerate investigation and support faster, more confident decision-making. The talk also highlights the importance of keeping human expertise at the centre, showing how AI can augment analysts rather than replace them. Attendees will gain practical insight into building a SOC approach that aligns with the human–AI era: one where technology amplifies capability, strengthens response and enables teams to stay ahead in a landscape defined by speed and complexity.

In this session, Vectra breaks down how modern attackers move across identity, network, cloud, and endpoint controls without triggering obvious alarms. From exposed buckets and stolen credentials to token abuse and AI-assisted lateral movement, each step often looks legitimate in isolation. Using real-world breach examples and attacker chat logs, this talk walks through how adversaries exploit gaps between tools, persist even after eviction, and compress their timelines with automation and AI.

Drawing on the realities of hybrid work, widespread mobility and ever-shifting connectivity, this session explores how security must adapt to a world where every interaction is fluid. The talk examines how identity, device health and application-level segmentation now create a living perimeter that adjusts as quickly as the organisation moves. Instead of defending fixed networks, enterprises must secure their people wherever they are and whatever they are accessing. Three years into this new operating model, the session reflects on what has worked, what has proved harder than expected and how organisations are refining their approach to keep pace with constant change. Attendees will learn how converged, cloud-delivered controls can reduce complexity, strengthen consistency and deliver resilience in an environment defined by motion rather than boundaries. 

This session explores why forward-looking preparation is essential and how organisations can take practical steps today. It examines the need to audit encryption dependencies, identify long-lived data at risk, plan migration paths and understand the broader implications of quantum performance on infrastructure and privacy. Attendees will learn how quantum-safe strategies can be embedded into long-term resilience planning and why the organisations that prepare early will be best positioned to gain a competitive edge, maintain trust, continuity and operational stability when quantum capability reaches critical mass.