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Generative AI in the Kill Chain: How to stay ahead

Generative AI has quietly become a force multiplier across every stage of the attacker kill chain, from reconnaissance and phishing to exploit development. In the last 18 months we have seen AI-generated phishing catch more users unaware, deepfakes become operationally viable, and early examples of malware that leverages LLMs to adapt commands and evade detection. This talk dissects the current and future attacks nation states and cybercriminals alike will perpetrate, alongside the defenses your team needs to stay a step ahead. Learn how your team should be using AI, separate from the hype, and the other defenses that will be critical for this new era.

Allie Mellen Bio
Allie Mellen is a Forrester analyst covering security operations, nation-state threats, and the use of automation, machine learning, and AI in security tools. She is a computer engineer by trade and has held various engineering roles in her career, including doing research at MIT, running her own engineering consultancy, and being a hacker before finally becoming a security practitioner. She now advises Fortune 500 CISOs and security teams on their detection and response practice and frequently speaks at industry-leading events and with the press.
Allie is a featured speaker at many leading security conferences, including RSA Conference, Black Hat, HOPE, and many others. She is frequently quoted in top business press outlets including NPR, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, CNBC, and Dark Reading.
Prior to joining Forrester, Allie spent her career in various engineering, research, and technical consulting roles at MIT and several venture-backed startups. In addition to running her own engineering and development consultancy, she was also a security practitioner, doing hardware security research and working with product and infrastructure security teams.
Allie holds a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from Boston University.


Keynote
03. Allie Mellen - Principal Analyst, Forrester
Allie Mellen Principal Analyst, Forrester
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