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Sublime’s agentic platform stops more email attacks with less effort. Our AI agents function like a digital SOC team within your environment, triaging and blocking advanced threats while adapting protections at adversary speed. It provides full transparency and automation by default, with control on demand, eliminating vendor bottlenecks and rigid constraints.

2026 Strategic Sponsors

BeyondTrust is the global leader in privilege-centric identity security protecting Paths to Privilege . Identity alone doesn’t create risk.bPrivilege does. As human, non-human, and AI agent identities explode across every environment, BeyondTrust is the only company built to discover, control, and secure privilege across all of them from a single platform. Trusted by 20,000 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100, and recognized as a multi-category leader by Gartner, Forrester, and KuppingerCole, BeyondTrust turns identity security from a management problem into a strategic advantage.

Learn more at www.beyondtrust.com.

Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a guaranteed 99.99% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise.

Learn more about Delinea on delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.

Huntress is a fully managed cybersecurity platform built for organisations of all sizes and expertise levels. Because our enterprise-grade technology is never separated from our 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC), organisations can rest easy with protection that stops high-profile threats with the easiest possible user experience. Huntress EDR, ITDR, SIEM, and SAT solutions are purpose-built by our security experts and fully managed by our SOC, leading the charge in industry research with decades of experience and a passion for wrecking hackers.

Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organisations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters. Recognised as a Leader in the Forrester WaveTM for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organisations that keep the world running. www.illumio.com

Rubrik, the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes.

For more information please visit www.rubrik.com and follow @rubrikInc on X and Rubrik, Inc. on LinkedIn.

Thales is a global leader in cybersecurity, helping the most trusted organisations protect critical applications, data, identities, and software anywhere, at scale. Through Thales’ integrated platforms, customers achieve better visibility of risks, defend against cyber threats, close compliance gaps, and deliver trusted digital experiences for billions of consumers every day.

Stop Ransomware! ThreatLocker® improves enterprise-level server and endpoint security with Zero Trust controls, including Allowlisting, Ringfencing™, Elevation, Storage, Network Control, Configuration Management, and Detect EDR and MDR solutions.

Vega is an AI-native security operations company building the operating system for agentic SecOps. Its Security Analytics Mesh (SAM) connects to security data wherever it lives, including SIEMs, cloud logs, data lakes, and object storage, and runs queries and detections in place, with no ingestion, migration, or egress. The result is complete visibility, detection, and triage across every data source, giving analysts and AI agents full coverage at a fraction of legacy cost. Founded in 2024 and backed by Cyberstarts, Accel, Redpoint, and CRV, Vega operates from Tel Aviv and New York. Learn more at vega.io.

2026 Education Seminar Sponsors

For more information, see https://www.aibound.com/.

Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai’s full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world’s most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at akamai.com, akamai.com/blog, or follow Akamai Technologies on Twitter and LinkedIn.

CybSafe is the human risk management platform designed to reduce human cyber risk in the modern, remote, and hybrid work environment, by measuring and influencing specific security behaviors. CybSafe is powered by SebDB—the world’s most comprehensive security behaviors database—and built by the industry’s largest in-house team of psychologists, behavioral scientists, analysts, and security experts. An award-winning, fully scalable, and customisable solution, it’s the smart choice for any organisation.

91% Reduction in high-risk phishing behavior
55% Improvement in security behaviors
4x More likely to engage in cybersecurity initiatives

IGNISNOVA is a specialist cybersecurity VAR and advisory firm built on over 35 years of industry experience, focused on delivering high-impact security outcomes for financial services, iGaming and regulated enterprise clients across the UK, EU, and South Africa. IGNISNOVA partners with a curated set of cutting-edge vendors, including Vicarius and AIBound, both exhibiting alongside us at the e-Crime & Cybersecurity Mid-Year Summit, to bring exposure management and AI governance capabilities into a single advisory-led security stack tailored to each client's risk profile.

LMNTRIX is an Australian-founded cybersecurity company delivering AI-driven Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) for organisations that want outcomes, not more tools.

Built by practitioners, not investors, LMNTRIX was designed to solve a simple problem: security teams are overwhelmed by alerts, fragmented platforms, and slow investigations. Instead of stitching together acquired products, LMNTRIX engineered a unified XDR platform from the ground up that brings endpoint, network, identity, cloud, deception, intelligence, and exposure validation into a single, correlated system.

At the core is an agentic AI architecture that combines autonomous reasoning with human oversight. Artemis, the investigation engine, correlates telemetry, hunts threats, and triggers response actions automatically. LISA, the conversational assistant, works alongside analysts to explain incidents, recommend actions, and streamline workflows. Together, they automate the majority of Tier-1 and Tier-2 tasks so security teams can focus on what actually matters.

The result is faster detection, dramatically reduced noise, and measurable operational gains. Customers use LMNTRIX to cut false positives, shrink investigation times from hours to minutes, and improve resilience without adding complexity.

Vendor-agnostic by design and deployable in days, not months, LMNTRIX integrates with existing security stacks while providing the intelligence and automation modern SOCs need.

No hype. No bolt-ons. Just practical AI that works in production.

Unified. Intelligent. Built to outperform.

Learn more at https://lmntrix.com/

OneSpan provides secure authentication, identity, electronic signature and digital workflow solutions that protect and facilitate digital transactions and agreements. The Company delivers products and services that automate and secure customer-facing and revenue-generating business processes for use cases ranging from simple transactions to workflows that are complex or require higher levels of security. Trusted by global blue-chip enterprises, including more than 60% of the world’s 100 largest banks, OneSpan processes millions of digital agreements and billions of multi-factor authentication transactions in 100+ countries annually.

Building on this foundation of trust, OneSpan is a recognised leader in passwordless authentication solutions that help organisations strengthen security while improving the user experience. OneSpan enables enterprises to move beyond traditional passwords by leveraging phishing-resistant, standards-based authentication methods such as biometrics, device-bound credentials, cryptographic keys, and FIDO-based authentication. These approaches reduce the risk of fraud, credential theft, and account takeover, while simplifying secure access for employees and customers.

For more information, go to www.onespan.com. You can also follow @OneSpan on X (Twitter) or visit us on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Red Sift is the company making the internet fundamentally safer. Trusted by 1,200+ teams around the world, Red Sift makes it simple to deploy proactive security across email, web and PKI. Red Sift’s cloud-based applications make it easy to embrace the protocols that keep the internet safe – like DMARC & TLS – while protecting known protocol gaps, stopping configuration drift and using AI to scale. Red Sift is the official DMARC provider for Cisco, a trusted partner for Microsoft, and backed by some of the best venture investors in the business.

Learn more and get started for free at redsift.com.

Varonis secures AI and the data that powers it. The Varonis platform gives organisations automated visibility and control over their critical data wherever it lives and ensures safe and trustworthy AI from code to runtime. Backed by 24x7x365 managed detection and response, Varonis gives thousands of organisations worldwide the confidence to adopt AI, reduce data exposure, and stop AI-powered threats.

Learn more at www.varonis.com

To learn more, see https://www.vicarius.io/.

2026 Networking Sponsor

Trusted by over 180,000 businesses, millions of consumers, and 1 million developers, 1Password is redefining identity security for the way people and AI agents work today. Our mission is to unleash productivity without compromising security. The 1Password Extended Access Management product suite delivers zero trust security that protects, manages, and governs access to all SaaS applications, whether managed by IT or not. Built on 1Password’s Enterprise Password Manager, which secures more than 1.3 billion credentials, 1Password’s Agentic AI capabilities extend identity security to AI agents and other non-human identities. Leading companies such as Asana, Associated Press, Browserbase, Canva, Cresta, Golden State Warriors, Hugging Face, MongoDB, Octopus Energy, Salesforce, SandboxAQ, Slack, Stripe, and Under Armour trust 1Password to provide the right person or AI agent the right access to the right app from a trusted device.

Learn more at https://1password.com/

2026 Branding Sponsor

CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk — endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.

Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.

Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.

CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.

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2026 Executive Roundtable Sponsor

CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.

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