Fortinet asked Matthew to give the opening keynote at its System Integrator (SI) summit in Prague, where over three hundred of its top SIs and Managed Service Partners (MSPs) from around the world met to learn about the latest cyber threats and risks, and how to counter them.
The keynote was split into two parts, emergent cyber threats and emergent defence concepts. Its purpose was to open the audience's eyes to their unknown unknowns, so that they could be better prepared for the threats ahead as technologies improve exponentially and state-sponsored actors and hackers grow bolder.
"The purpose of the session was to open the audience's eyes to their unknown unknowns so that they, and all of us, can be better prepared for the threats that lie ahead."Matthew Griffin, Prague, February 2025
Matthew walked through the new tools attackers are developing to get around state of the art defences: using sound to watch your screen and clone your biometrics, using DNA malware to corrupt police forensics systems, and using human psychology to compromise, corrupt and destroy the AI foundation models and systems that hundreds of millions of people use every day.
He then turned to the development of autonomous agentic cyber offence and defence systems. He showed how white noise can corrupt and interfere with auditory attacks, how AI Large Audio Models (LAMs) and machine vision systems can see the latest polymorphic malware variants and phishing attacks, and how the latest predictive cyber defence systems are taking shape, among many other new concepts.
