Jai Singh Arun

Reflecting on Fal.Con 2025: The Dawn of the Agentic AI Era in Cybersecurity Last week, I had an incredible opportunity to join over 8,000 cybersecurity professionals from around the globe at CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2025 in Las Vegas U.S. The energy was palpable, centered on the critical theme of "Leading Cybersecurity into the AI Era." In an age where AI is minting more adversaries, the focus was clear: to outpace threats, our defenses must evolve even faster. The event was a powerhouse of innovation, and these were the key highlights: The Agentic SOC vision: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz unveiled a bold new framework—the Agentic SOC. This is not just a better dashboard; it's a fundamental reimagination where intelligent AI agents reason, decide, and act across domains. Human analysts are elevated to commanding a fleet of these agents, transforming security operations at machine speed. Falcon's Evolution as a platform: The core announcement was the evolution of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform into an Agentic Security Platform. This includes a new AI-ready data layer called the Enterprise Graph and a suite of mission-ready AI agents. Charlotte AI AgentWorks: A standout innovation was Charlotte AI AgentWorks, a no-code platform that allows security teams to build, test, and deploy their own custom AI agents. This empowers organizations to tailor their defenses to unique challenges. Strategic Acquisitions: CrowdStrike reinforced its platform with strategic acquisitions of Onum (for real-time data processing) and Pangea (an AI security firm). The Pangea acquisition pioneers a new category: AI Detection and Response (AIR), essential for putting guardrails around AI agents themselves. Security AGI as the future: George Kurtz shared a compelling long-term vision for Security Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) as the ultimate destination—a self-learning, autonomous system that recursively strengthens defenses. While years away, it sets a North Star for the industry. Collaborative Defense: The event underscored the importance of partnership, from a fireside chat with the White House National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross anchored by Michael Sentonas, Crowdstrike President, on public-private collaboration to technical deep dives on partnerships with companies like Microsoft to redefine endpoint protection. Beyond the sessions, the electrifying party, the chance to network with partners and even try my hand at golf (a budding golfer in the making!) made for a well-rounded experience. Shout out to these incredible people - Griffith Ehebha Olayinka Abayomi CISM, PMP, COBIT Ayodeji Abimbola Adedayo Ojo John Mago - MBA CCISO PCIP PCIISA CEH ITIL..... Olusegun Rufai and Kamil Ibiyemi they are all awesome ! The message was clear, "In the AI era, speed is survival, and the future belongs to defenders who harness the power of intelligent agents". #FalCon2025 #CrowdStrike #AccessBank #Cybersecurity #AI #AgenticAI #SOC #CharlotteAI #InfoSec

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Banks are moving quickly to embed AI into customer service, fraud detection, and operational decision-making, yet many still grant these systems broad, persistent access to sensitive financial data. This piece underscores a critical point: Zero Trust cannot stop at users and devices, it must extend to AI models, APIs, and the data pipelines that feed them, with continuous verification, least-privilege access, and full auditability of how banking data is accessed and used. This about how your org is treating AI access... is it functioning as a governed workflow, applying Zero Trust controls to data classification, modeling permissions, honoring third-party integrations, and managing cross-border data flows before innovation outpaces oversight? #ZeroTrust #AI #BankingSecurity #DataGovernance #Kiteworks

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CISA pledges robust support for funding, further development of CVE program A key official from the agency said the vulnerability management program will continue with additional participation and enhancements

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The CIS Risk Assessment Method on Salesforce Trailhead is a solid framework for aligning cyber safeguards with real business and regulatory impact. Highly relevant for financial institutions and credit unions working toward FFIEC and CIS Controls alignment. #CyberRisk #CISControls #Governance #CreditUnions

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To effectively safeguard end-user access, organizations must take a comprehensive approach that secures not only their infrastructure, but also their applications, cloud environments, and associated systems.

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"Operational resilience has become critical" by McKinsey & Company At least for Banks... I would argue that it is for any organization. The The Conference Board CEO Outlook for 2025 concurs with the #1 concern through a CEO survey was #OperationalResilience. Of course, #2 was #CostSavings. 💥 #DigDeeper: https://lnkd.in/ejfVhp4M While this report focuses on #Banks, the four actions to achieve operational resilience are applicable to ALL organizations. 💥 1. Linking operational-risk management and resilience to business impact - this is the critical starting point (Objective-centric Risk Management). We need a straight line from spend on Operational Resilience to the increase in certainty that the organization will achieve its objectives. 💥 2. Upgrading governance to manage nonfinancial risk and operational resilience - Absolutely (see #3 and #4) 💥 3. Building out operational-resilience capabilities - This requires bridging the protective silos and not "breaking them down". Consider a Team-of-Teams (McCrystal) approach. 💥 4. Investing in data, analytics, and tooling - this should be ALL Operational Resilience data across all the protective silos (cyber, physical, BC, EM/CM, Supply, EHS, People, Compliance, Audit, etc.) IN ONE PLACE! Conference Board Research: https://lnkd.in/eMhySsDA McIndoe Risk Advisory LLC

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The @National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) report on state CIOs' top policy and technology priorities showed that #cybersecurity and risk management remain at the top. As state and local government CIOs look to maximize governance and security, simplify vendor management, and accelerate the overall procurement cycle for #cybersecurity solutions, we have provided a few #procurement considerations. Explore our latest article on the top three procurement considerations for the #publicsector and how #AWS can help accelerate procurement timelines to get agencies the technology they need:

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