SecTor / Black Hat · Event date October 6, 2026

SecTor AI x Cloud Security Summit 2026

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October 6, 2026
Scheduled event

SecTor's one-day AI x Cloud Security Summit in Toronto covers AI-driven attacks and defenses, securing AI workloads, cloud-native security architecture, governance and risk, and the changing security-operations model.

My takeaway: Use the program to connect AI threat models with cloud identity, workload isolation, data boundaries, logging, and incident response. Prefer deployment evidence and measured control outcomes over broad claims about AI-enabled defense.
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