Conferences, Talks, Panels, and Other Appearances

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Transforming Security Programs for AI

Beyond the Booths — AI Security Council, AIUC, CSA & SVB Happy Hour at RSA

Nate joined a panel at Silicon Valley Bank on Tuesday, March 24 at 5:30 PM during RSA, hosted by the AI Security Council and Cloud Security Alliance. The panel — Transforming Security Programs for AI — featured the Global Head of Cybersecurity Payments at JPMorgan Chase, the Director of Security Strategy & Innovation at Publicis, the Field CISO at Tuskira, and the CSO of the Cloud Security Alliance.

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The Power of Persuasion

Nate delivered a talk at the IMAX theater for the 2025 BSidesSF conference on using principles of psychology to drive improved security outcomes.

Who Am I When I'm Not Me?

Nate will speaking at Indentiverse in Las Vegas on June 3rd discussing identities in the age of AI agents.

What You Really Should Be Worried About with AI and Agentic Systems

Nate will be speaking at the AI Agent Security Summit in NYC on March 31st about the types of questions you should be asking your vendors and engineers to _really_ understand what the risks are.

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CSA's Threats and Vulnerabilities Summit

Nate will be speaking at the Cloud Security Alliance's Cloud Threats and Vulnerabilities Summit on April 3rd about his soon to be released paper on secure agentic system design.

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Zero Trust and AI: A Powerful Combination

CSA Virtual Zero Trust Summit

Nate is speaking on a panel to discuss both how AI affects Zero Trust designs and capabilities as well as how Zero Trust needs to influence how we build secure AI based systems.

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Masterclass in AI Threat Modeling

Masterclass in AI Threat Modeling

Nate will be speaking with Mateo Rojas Carulla, founder of Lakera.ai and Elliot Ward, researcher at Snyk about building preventative measures for prompt injections into your AI threat modeling processes.

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Cloud Security Today with Matt Chiodi

Cloud Security Today

Nate joins Matt Chiodi, former CSO at Palo Alto Networks on Cloud Security Today to discuss the risks, rewards and realities of building secure systems that utilize LLMs.

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Engineering Leadership Conference SF 2024

Engineering Leadership Conference SF 2024

Nate will be at the Engineering Leadership Conference in San Francisco with Srinath Kuruvadi, Head of Product Security at JPMorganChase and Swathi Joshi, VP of Cloud Security at Oracle speaking about bringing internet scale security to the enterprise.

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Cloud Security Alliance 2024 Sectember.ai conference

Cloud Security Alliance Sectember.ai

Nate will be speaking at the CSA's annual flagship conference - Sectember.ai about building systems that utilize LLMs securely.

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Nate with Matthew Chiodi, CSO at Palo Alto Networks for Cloud Security Today

Cloud Security Today with Matthew Chiodi

Speaking with Palo Alto Networks CSO, Matthew Chiodi, Nate discussed the importance of automation in building out a scalable security program as well as the process for attaining ISO 27001, SOC 2 and PCI Level 1.

They then dove into how strategy is a key differentiator for businesses before delving further into how that strategy changes over time with growth and to reflect the changing threat landscape.

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Nate on Cloudflare.TV with Joe Sullivan, former CSO of Cloudflare, Facebook and Uber and Michael Coates, formerly CISO of Twitter and Head of Security at Mozilla

Cloudflare.TV

Nate Spoke with Joe and Michael on data leaks and exfiltration in the enterprise and some of the nuance around dealing with both insider threats that may be either intentional or accidental.

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Nate on The Tech Trek

The Tech Trek podcast

Nate spoke with Amir Bormand to discuss the ins and outs of building and growing a security program including the need to think critically about controls and processes before implementation, making your first security hire, building a champions program and how to define your priorities.

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Nate on AI for SANS Cloud Ace

SANS Cloud Ace Podcast

Nate joined Frank Kim, CISO in Residence at YL Ventures and former CISO at the SANS Institute for a wide ranging discussion on cloud security, working with Engineering and his experience building a Gen AI Slackbot to answer questions about the company's security program.

SANS Cloud ACE Podcast