EVENT THEME:
AI Vs AI: The Evolving Human Risk Landscape

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Date: Thursday, 19th June 2025

Time: 12pm – 2:30pm (MYT)

Location

The RuMa Hotel and Residences, Kuala Lumpur

7 jalan Kia Peng,
50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Synopsis and overview of the session

As we navigate the cybersecurity landscape of 2025, enterprises in Malaysia face a rapidly evolving array of challenges and opportunities. CISOs are at the forefront, balancing the integration of technological advancements with adherence to regulatory requirements.

CISOs are focusing on several critical priorities in this region: enhancing AI-driven threat detection capabilities, implementing zero trust architecture, addressing human risk through training and culture-building, ensuring compliance with the Cyber Security Act 2024, navigating ethical AI implementation, combating sophisticated ransomware threats, strengthening data privacy protections, and fostering collaborative threat intelligence sharing. These interconnected strategies aim to create resilient security frameworks that can adapt to rapidly changing threats while maintaining regulatory compliance and stakeholder trust, ultimately future-proofing organizational cybersecurity in an increasingly complex digital environment. 

This roundtable aims to equip IT and cyber leaders with a deep understanding of methods to anticipate and adapt to rapidly changing AI-driven attack vectors; the continued importance of security awareness training, and the need for a symbiotic relationship between human expertise and AI systems in cybersecurity in line with compliance requirements.

Key discussion points:

• The evolving human risk landscape, where traditional vulnerabilities now intersect with sophisticated social engineering and AI-enhanced threats. We’ll explore how threat actors leverage generative AI to create more convincing phishing attempts and deepfake attacks.
• How to enhance security with AI-driven advanced threat detection and response capabilities to swiftly identify and neutralize sophisticated cyber threats
• Adoption of zero trust architecture principles to safeguard sensitive data
• Addressing human risk through employee training and security-first culture to mitigate social engineering and insider threats
• Balancing investments in human-centric security approaches with technical compliance requirements of the Cybersecurity Act 2024
• The concept of using “good AI” to combat “bad AI,” exploring how machine learning and artificial intelligence are being used against evolving ransomware tactics, and the ethical considerations that arise when using AI

Presenter

Ruth Protpakorn, PhD, Head of Enterprise Sales, Asia, KnowBe4

Highly accomplished sales and business development professional with extensive experience in and passion for helping companies solve business pain with enterprise SaaS solutions. Proven track record of success managing in start-ups and high growth organizations, building teams, partnerships, and sales pipelines. Significant expertise in all aspects of cloud platform business; driving full cycle of complex sales deals from campaigns development, demand generation, executive presentation, to closure. Multilingual and proficient conducting business in North America, Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ).

Moderator

Ross O’Brien, Principal Advisor, Focus Network

Ross is a writer, commentator, research manager and consultant. His analysis centres on the impact information technologies have on Asia’s economic and social development.

Ross is a recognised thought leader on technology-enabled sustainability, having conceived and developed two global indexes which assess the role of new technologies in the fight against climate change: The Green Future Index and The Blue Technology Barometer. The Green Future Index is used as a benchmarking tool by several national and pan-national government organizations worldwide, including the European Commission.

Ross has written and delivered reports and presentations for C-level executives for over two decades as an independent consultant and has served as a non-executive director on the board of Weyland Tech, a developer of mobile business and fintech applications.

Being based in Hong Kong for over 20 years, and in Asia for nearly 30, Ross has conducted market research and consulting projects in over a dozen Asian economies, including months-long engagements in China, Indonesia, Vietnam and Bangladesh. He has also worked in professional service teams at Asian technology firms including Huawei and PT Telkom.

About KnowBe4

KnowBe4 empowers your workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by over 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 helps you strengthen your security culture and manage human risk. KnowBe4 offers a comprehensive AI-driven ‘best-of-suite’ platform for human risk management (HRM), creating an adaptive defense layer that fortifies user behavior against the latest cybersecurity threats.

The HRM+ platform includes modules for awareness and compliance training, cloud email security, real-time security coaching, crowdsourced anti-phishing, AI Defense Agents and more. As the only global security platform of its kind, KnowBe4 transforms your largest attack surface—your workforce—into your biggest asset, actively protecting your organization against cybersecurity threats.

Website: www.knowbe4.com