Peyton Smith
Peyton has spent 10+ years in cyber security with an emphasis in Red Team, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence. He was a member of CrowdStrike Services from 2018 - 2023 where he split time between Incident Response and Red Team. He was a first responder to many of the most sophisticated nation state and e-crime cyber intrusions in the world. He also performed numerous red team exercises across a range of industry verticals and breached 20+ Fortune 1000 organizations.
Today, Peyton is the founder and CEO of Specular where he's focused on combining cyber security and AI to augment the identification, assessment, and remediation of cyber security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Session
This talk will explore the tangible impact of LLMs in cybersecurity, focusing on how they can be used to automate proactive security workflows at scale using agentic patterns.
We’ll analyze real world case studies to show where AI agents excel and where they fall short. Specifically, we'll discuss how AI agents can be used to augment traditional human-driven processes to expedite vulnerability identification, assessment, and remediation.