How to prepare for the AI-mediated Vulnpocalypse
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As AI tools improve vulnerability discovery, platform engineers, DevOps teams, and SREs are facing a growing wave of alerts, predictions, and pressure from across the organization. In this session, we’ll cut through the noise to explore the real world impact of AI-backed vulnerability research and, more importantly, how to respond in a way that is both technically sound and operationally sustainable.
We’ll cover pragmatic defence-in-depth strategies to reduce exposure, alongside approaches for translating risk into clear, actionable conversations with leadership.
• Assess the likely impact of accelerated CVE discovery and exploit development
• Develop defense-in-depth strategies to contain risk of compromise
• Navigate leadership pressure by translating security signals into grounded, business-relevant decisions
Speaker: Ashley Ward
Principal Solutions Architect @ Minimus
Ashley Ward is Principal Solutions Architect at Minimus, where he helps organisations strengthen trust, resilience, and security across their cloud-native environments. His work focuses on enabling customers to adopt minimal, standards-aligned container images that reduce risk while supporting scale.
He brings extensive leadership experience from previous roles including Group CTO at a publicly listed company with revenues exceeding €4.5B, CTO within a cloud-native consultancy, and Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Palo Alto Networks. His career spans enterprise architecture, product strategy, and technical due diligence, consistently bridging innovation with practical execution.
Ashley serves as a Non-Executive Director on the OpenUK board, where he champions open software, hardware, data, standards, and AI.