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Date: Wednesday, May 6th
Time: 1:00 PM ET
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Security teams are not short on findings—they are short on confidence in what matters. Teams need to move beyond raw vulnerability counts and toward a clearer understanding of exposure. That means improving risk scoring by factoring in exploitability, business context, and how assets are actually used. This session examines how organizations can shift from reactive to more informed decision-making. By leveraging AI Agents to look at patterns and fill in the missing data, teams can prioritize with greater precision. The outcome is a move away from broad, unstructured remediation requests toward targeted actions that align with business priorities and operational constraints. The discussion also challenges a common assumption: that organizations must fully organize and classify their data before making progress. In reality, the volume and growth of data make that approach difficult to sustain. AI can help accelerate discovery and classification, enabling teams to improve data quality while simultaneously acting on what matters most. Key Takeaways:
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Fernando Montenegro
Vice President and Practice Lead, Cybersecurity - Futurum
Fernando Montenegro serves as the Vice President & Practice Lead for Cybersecurity & Resilience at The Futurum Group. In this role, he leads the development and execution of the Cybersecurity research agenda, working closely with the team to drive the practice’s growth. His research focuses on addressing critical topics in modern cybersecurity. These include the multifaceted role of AI in cybersecurity, strategies for managing an ever-expanding attack surface, and the evolution of cybersecurity architectures toward more platform-oriented solutions.
Before joining The Futurum Group, Fernando held senior industry analyst roles at Omdia, S&P Global, and 451 Research. His career also includes diverse roles in customer support, security, IT operations, professional services, and sales engineering. He has worked with pioneering Internet Service Providers, established security vendors, and startups across North and South America.
Fernando holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and various industry certifications. Although he is originally from Brazil, he has been based in Toronto, Canada, for many years.
Dan Pagel
CEO - Brinqa
Dan Pagel leads Brinqa with a focused mission: empowering enterprises to align technology with business risk and protect what matters most. With over 15 years of leadership experience in cybersecurity and enterprise software, Dan has a proven track record of building customer-centric organizations, fostering innovation, and driving growth.
Prior to Brinqa, Dan served as CEO of Playvox, a leader in workforce and quality management solutions that help customer service teams deliver better experiences for some of the world’s largest brands, leading to their acquisition by NICE. As CRO at Britive, he focused on advancing secure, cloud-native access solutions within the emerging Cloud Privileged Access Management market. At NetMotion, he led the company’s expansion as a trusted provider of secure remote access solutions for global enterprises, achieving efficient growth and positioning the company for a strategic acquisition by Absolute Software.
Dan holds an MBA from the University of Missouri’s Trulaske College of Business and a Bachelor’s degree from William Jewell College.
Mike Vizard
Chief Content Officer - Techstrong Group
Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director at Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as editor-in-chief at CRN and InfoWorld.