2025-06-21 –, Track 3 (Moody Rm. 102)
The cyber gap has been as high as 3.5 million people globally, however has anyone actually measured how many people are in cybersecurity? While there aren’t many metrics to go off, as of 2024, it was about 5.5 million globally. With the emergence of AI, this number is about to reset back to zero. I personally keep running into cyber professionals at all levels who say they do not know where to start. This can be Your AI-Cyber Crash Course to enable AI literacy for BSides SATX Attendees
Let’s do an AI-Cybersecurity crash course, where I will break down the differences between Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI, and Chatbots, as well as how AI is evolving various domains.
Attendees to this presentation will walk away with better confidence in discerning AI, LLM, Agentic AI/Agents, Chatbots, AI Red Teaming, AI Governance, and a high-level overview of the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs.
Approximate Outline:
• What is AI?
o History of AI: Term coined in 1950s, AI Winter, etc.
o How does AI ‘reason’?
o Who builds AI?
o AI Lifecycle
o Best data types for AI (structured vs unstructured)
• What are Large Language Models (LLM)?
o Difference between publicly available and private
• Chatbots
• Agentic AI
• AI Governance
o Bias in Data
o Regulatory requirements
• Examples of AI in Cyber Defense
o Identity Access Management to AI
o Data Classification for data in LLMs
o SOC detection of adversarial use of AI
• Examples of AI in Cyber Offensive Ops
• OWASP TOP TEN LLM
• Hardware
o GPU
o DPU
o CPU
• AI Skills
o AI Red Teamer / Pen tester
o GRC
o AI and Machine Learning developers / AppSec
Ryan René Rosado is a pillar of expertise in the global cybersecurity landscape, with an illustrious career spanning over a decade. Ryan is a Teaching Assistant with Harvard Extension School for a course on Network and Cloud Security as well as an Advisor to a startup, Ally Security. Having fortified the cybersecurity domains of powerhouse organizations such as EY, Avanade, and Optiv, she carved her path from an enlisted Cyber Intelligence Analyst in the US Air Force, dual-majored in Cybersecurity and Disaster Management and is an emerging influence in the private sector. Her success in incident response, threat intelligence, risk management, and compliance are a testament to her strategic and analytical acumen.
Ryan often appears on The Security Happy Hour podcast and was a moderator for "The Future CISO" podcast, was published in Dark Reading and Signal IT Magazines, and presented at the Texas Cyber Summit in 2022.