Ransomware operators and state-sponsored actors are increasingly targeting vulnerable operational technology — and Frontier AI-powered attacks are now faster, more evasive, and nearly impossible to contain with traditional tools. For critical infrastructure operators, the stakes of protecting an expanding attack surface go beyond downtime, and include substantial financial and public safety risk.

This session explores best practices for protecting emerging attack surfaces and proactively harnessing AI-driven cyber defense to discover unknown vulnerabilities, and deploying protections in hours. This approach collapses the exposure window from the industry-average 55 days it takes to deploy a traditional patch down into a near-zero window of exposure. This is especially valuable for operational technology (OT), critical infrastructure, healthcare, and IoT: environments where systems can’t be taken offline to patch, where patch cycles can stretch for months, and where a single unpatched device can expose an entire operational network.