Ahmed Abugharbia
Certified InstructorCo-founder at Cystack
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Cloud Security
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Ahmed Abugharbia is the co-founder of Cystack, a leading cybersecurity firm, and the founder of Cyberdojo, a company developing AI-based threat hunting tools and offering specialized Cloud and AI Security services. He has built advanced capabilities in cloud security and helped establish Cloud Security Operations Centers for multiple Fortune 100 companies, significantly strengthening their ability to detect and respond to evolving threats. With over 17 years of experience in the field, Ahmed has led large-scale initiatives across cloud security, network and application security, and incident response. A SANS Certified Instructor, he is the author of SEC545: GenAI and LLM Application Security and also teaches SEC540: Cloud Native Security and DevSecOps Automation.
Ahmed is incredibly interactive, adept at explaining obtuse concepts, and enriches delivery through his own real-world experiences. He is also willing to stop and help those who need it.
He's great. One thing that stands out is that he gives us the history of why things are the way they are. With a lot of newer technologies, we are generally expected to learn what they do, why they do it, but never why it is done a certain way. Ahmed gives us that history which makes a big difference.
Ahmed describes the content clearly, answers questions thoroughly, and offers hooks to keep us coming back for more.
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ChatGPT was launched by OpenAI in November 2022. Since then, it has been the subject of many discussions. ChatGPT itself is one application that was built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 models. We can programmatically interact with these models via OpenAI API. In this talk, we will go beyond ChatGPT and discuss OpenAI API, fine-tuning our own models for specific tasks, and building security applications on top of them. We will be building a sample application that interprets human requests and performs the basic tasks requested.
With organizations and individuals increasingly moving to the cloud, the need for secure and agile deployment pipelines is more important than ever. This session explores how to achieve this goal by strategically placing security controls throughout the different phases of the DevOps process. Topics covered include the DevOps toolchain, security tools, and techniques for injecting security controls into automated pipelines.
In this talk, Ahmed Abugharbia and Abdul Kittana will deep dive into various methodologies and options for developing applications using generative AI technologies.
Embark on a journey through the skies of Kubernetes as we navigate the fundamentals, deployment strategies, and security for a seamless transition from traditional cloud instances to containerized infrastructure.
While GenAI allows organizations to tackle new challenges and minimize resource expenditure, it also presents several security risks, as is common with any new technology. Cybercriminals can exploit novel attack vectors, often due to organizations' limited understanding of GenAI's complexities.
During this Webcast we will examines how AI models can be backdoored using vulnerabilities in serialization formats like Pickle.
This webcast is built on insights from one of our most anticipated cybersecurity surveys of the year—offering an in-depth look at how the community is adopting, adapting to, and defending against artificial intelligence in all its forms. From broad AI applications to generative models like LLMs, the 2025 SANS AI Survey uncovers how security professionals are integrating AI into their workflows—and what risks and opportunities are emerging as a result.
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