Registration and coffee

Cyber threats are evolving faster than ever — and AI is accelerating the pace. In this session, Mikael Gustafsson from Fortinet explores the latest developments in the global threat landscape and what they mean for businesses.

Drawing on insights from FortiGuard Labs, he will look at how threat intelligence can help organisations move from reacting to incidents to anticipating risks, making better security decisions and strengthening business resilience.

Every vendor has a platform. Half of them changed their answer in the last 18 months. In this session, Shiraz Valji cuts through the noise and asks the question nobody else is asking: how do you know if what you're buying is actually a platform or just a catalogue with a login page? No marketing slides. Just clarity.

Refreshments

FortiEndpoint: Protecting Users and Data in the Generative AI Era

Discover how FortiEndpoint combines endpoint security, secure access, and data protection to safeguard users and sensitive information. Explore how visibility and control over generative AI usage help reduce misuse and accidental data leakage. Learn how integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric enables coordinated mitigation when an endpoint is compromised—from isolation and access restrictions to automated response.

Lunch

From Bare Walls to Firewalls — Before 15:00 Check-In

From Shadow AI to Secure Access: How FortiSASE Protects the Hybrid Workforce

Discover how FortiSASE combines secure internet access, zero trust access to private applications, and data protection in one cloud-delivered service to protect hybrid users at home, in the office or on the road. Explore how visibility and control over generative AI and SaaS usage help uncover shadow AI and reduce misuse and accidental data leakage. Learn how integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric enables coordinated mitigation when a user or device is compromised, from access restrictions and quarantine to automated response.

FortiOS 8.0 lets organisations classify AI tools as sanctioned or unsanctioned, block unsanctioned use and detect AI-agent traffic, while FortiAnalyzer 8.0 turns this into shadow-AI reporting for leadership. FortiAIOps brings AI into day-to-day network operations, detecting issues early and shortening the path from symptom to root cause. Finally, we look at a Fortinet AI agent that lets engineers work with FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and EMS from their own PC, using the language model of their choice, public or private.

We say we want security. Then we click “Accept All”, reuse a familiar password, and paste something sensitive into the nearest AI tool, usually without a second thought. Most of us are not careless. We are conflicted.

As organizations move further along the AI journey, the technology keeps getting smarter. The humans using it remain wonderfully, stubbornly human: shaped by biology, habit, stress and the pull of convenience. This closing keynote takes a closer look at the human layer of security, and at why knowing what is safe and doing what is safe so often turn out to be two very different things.

Expect a few uncomfortable truths, some unexpected help from behavioral biology, and a different way of thinking about the people we are trying to protect, including ourselves.