Every security team is sitting on a mountain of data, and most of us are digging through it with a teaspoon. Logs piled up like sediment, vulnerability backlogs older than some of our junior analysts, and test scopes that grow faster than the hours in a sprint. AI promises a bigger shovel.
This meetup is about finding out where that shovel actually hits bedrock and where it just throws dust in our eyes. We’ll dig into three sites:
- Monitoring, where machine learning sifts millions of events to find the one beacon that matters
- Vulnerability management, where models help separate the truly exploitable from the merely scary looking
- Security testing, where AI fuzzes, maps and probes at a pace no human crew could match.
But let’s keep it real. A tool is a tool, and a hammer has never once decided which nail deserves it.
The interesting questions are human ones: who trains the model, who checks its homework, and who carries the responsibility when it confidently tells you something that simply isn’t true.
So come as you are, bring your hype and your skepticism in equal measure, and let’s think out loud together. No sales pitches, no magic tricks, just practitioners comparing notes on what works, what breaks and what we still need to figure out. A light snack is on us, the critical thinking is on you.
This event will be held in English.
Agenda
16:30-17:00 Registration and networking
17:00-17:05 Welcome & get to know what W4CFI is about
17.05-17.45 Leveraging AI in Vulnerability Management - Sakari Laukka
17.45-18.15 The Supertimeline of Us- Jouni Mikkola
18.15-18.30 Break
18.30-19.30 What 10€ and an LLM can (or can't) do to your EDR - Lola Lerche, Security Consultant Accenture.
19.30-19.45 Closing Remarks
19.45- 21.00 Networking and drinks
About the speakers:
Jouni Mikkola has been in IT for almost 20 years, mostly doing incident response and forensics for people who clicked things they should not have. Currently Cyber Response Lead for the Nordics at Accenture, which is a fancy way of saying he tells big companies what they did wrong after the fact. Outside of work he runs open models on home hardware, partly out of stubbornness and partly to find out how much real security work a smaller model you can actually run offline can be trusted with and where it starts confidently making things up. That has turned into building AI agents for detection and response, and then spending a suspicious amount of time trying to break them before anyone else does.
Lola Lerche spends her time on the question most AI evangelists would rather skip: what happens when someone deliberately tries to fool the machine. Her work on metrics for machine learning robustness against adversarial attacks makes her exactly the right person to ask whether our shiny new models are bedrock or sandcastle. She also knows the other side of the keyboard, having represented Women4Cyber Finland in CTF and Hack Day events as part of its official hacking team in 2023. Expect sharp questions and zero blind faith.
Sakari Laukka has worked every floor of the security building, from hands on technical implementations through security architecture all the way up to governance, risk and compliance. That range matters, because plenty of AI promises sound great in the boardroom and fall apart in the server room. His real talent is translation: taking the tangled, complex stuff and turning it into practical solutions, clear decisions and development plans that actually survive contact with reality. He goes looking for the hard problems, picks up new technologies out of pure curiosity and genuinely enjoys helping others grow their expertise, which makes him exactly the right person to explain where AI truly fits into a security programme and where it is just a shiny new hammer looking for nails.
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