Last week I was in #Halifax, one of my favorite cities, at #ATLSECCON 2026, one of my favorite conferences.
Here are my notes about what I learned
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All too soon, we are already at the #ATLSECCON 2026 closing keynote:
"Humans Are Awesome At Decision Making"
from
Andy Ellis, Legendary CISO, Duha
When the Plan Doesn’t Exist: Agile Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Tarek Habib, Partner, KPMG
#ATLSECCON 2026
Vibe Coding vs Vibe Crime – How bad actors and defenders are leveraging AI differently
from
Shannon Murphy, Global Security and Risk Strategist, Trend Micro
#ATLSECCON 2026
When AI Broke Your Security Model: What Still Works, What’s Dead, and What to Fix First
from
Pascal Fortin, CEO, Cybereco
#ATLSECCON 2026
Day 2 of #ATLSECCON 2026 kicks off with
"The 5 W's and the How of Compliance"
From
Linda Mitton, GRC Practice Lead, Parabellyx Cybersecurity
Defence Through Deception
Jon Moore, C3SA Cyber Security Audit Team
#ATLSECCON 2026
Your AI Agents Are Lying To You
from
Jason Keirstead, Founding CTO, LangGuard[.]AI
#ATLSECCON 2026
Beyond the Silos: Operationalizing Exposure Management in a Fragmented Landscape
from
Tara Jaques, Technical Director, Tenable
#ATLSECCON 2026
A HUGE
THANK YOU
To everyone who came out to my new talk at #ATLSECCON 2026
"From Pets To Cattle To Agents: Evolving Identity And Security For Workloads"
Here are the slides
tinyurl.com/pets-atlseccon
Completely packed room for Amy Yee at #ATLSECCON 2026
"The Five People You Meet in Cybersecurity: Lessons in Trust, Failure, and Leadership"
Very good reminder we are all human!
The Evolution of Security Through the Endpoint
From Chris Gaba, RVP, Global Sales
Prisma Browser, Palo Alto Networks
#ATLSECCON 2026
#ATLSECCON 2026 Opening Keynote
"Dangerous Data"
From the always amazing Wendy Nather
Senior Research Initiatives Director at 1Password
#ATLSECCON 2026 has officially kicked off.
Biggest year ever, over 1750 people here in Halifax for 2 full days of learning and community.
Ballroom at the Atlantic Security Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia
It’s great to be back at the Atlantic Security Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia!
My talk is at 2:00 PM
#atlseccon
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I will be at #ATLSECCON for the next couple of days, should be interesting!
Looks like I'm going to #ATLSECCON in April - watch your data!
Your keynote at #AtlSecCon in Halifax was awesome! Heard lots of great feedback from other attendees throughout the conference. Thanks for coming up, for the talk and for being so awesome! Hope you get to rest and recharge soon.
All too soon, it is the closing keynote #ATLSecCon 2025
Inside the Mind of a Social Engineer: Real Attacks, Hard Truths, and What They Mean for Your Organization
From Stephanie "Snow" Carruthers - Global Lead of Cyber Range and Cyber Crisis Management, X-Force, IBM
#ATLSecCon 2025
Reality Check from the C-Suite: Why Technical Skills Aren’t Enough to Land the CISO Role
Darren Gallop
#ATLSecCon 2025
Gen AI in SecOps: Hype vs Concrete, Practical Use Cases
Jason Keirstead - VP Security Strategy at Simbian
#ATLSecCon 2025
From Bed Bugs to Bad Actors: Planning for Compromise
Alex Crandall - Systems Engineer, Veeam
Matt Crape - Senior Technical PMM, Veeam
#ATLSecCon 2025 day 2 kicks off with:
"Agile Threat Modeling: a case study for machine learning pipelines"
From Natalia Semenova - Senior Security Architect, EPAM Canada
This has been going a little viral in my circles and I've seen some wondering which airport it is - pretty sure it's Halifax as they were just at #atlseccon (which I'm still kicking myself for missing)
A teddy bear on a 2025 light sign in front of a AtlSecCon (Atlantic security conference) banner
A great first day at #atlseccon - wonderful keynote @hacks4pancakes.com!
Already at the last session of day one of #ATLSecCon 2025
Risk Management for the Trenches
Matthew Henshaw - Coordinator of IT, Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education
A brilliant talk about defining risk at #ATLSecCon 2025
The Critical Nexus of Risk Management in Cybersecurity: A Gap in Professional Training
from Jeff Gardiner - virtual CISO of GlassHouse Systems
#ATLSecCon 2025
Do you want to play a game? How about Disabling Civilization?
James Troutman
Cheryl Biswas
Very full room here at #ATLSecCon 2025
"Your Incident Response Kung Fu Is Old... and Now It Must Die!"
from Chris Lincoln - CISO, NB Power
Great keynote this morning from @hacks4pancakes.com at #ATLSECCON . Solid food for thought on how we need to review and change how we build our #cyersecurity talent pipeline. #HireEd … we have some hard work to do!