Track
Date & Time
Thursday, April 23, 2026, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room Location
Lomond Auditorium
Session Code
TT04
Name
Tech Talks - Series 4
Description
Join us in the Lomond Auditorium for the 2026 Tech Talks and listen to highly technical talks across two-days presented in five series.
Tech Talks are advanced briefings on innovation, future technologies or pieces of research. They're a space to access the latest cyber knowledge, illuminating research and detailed analysis with actionable conclusions.
Talks included in the Tech Talks Series 4 are:
- TT04.1 - How to Justify Security Investments with Actual Evidence
- TT04.2 - Evidence-Based Defense: What Works, According to Microsoft’s Experiences in Incident Response
- TT04.3 - The Next Generation of NCSC’s Active Cyber Defence services (ACD2.0): A Story Of Experimentation, Data, and Evidence of Impact
- TT04.4 - Passkeys at Sophos: Making CISOs, CIOs & Employees Happy (All at Once)
Speakers
Meaghan Bradshaw, Principal Security Researcher, Microsoft
Rajeev Kapur, Vice President Enterprise Engineering, IT, Sophos
Ross McKerchar, Chief Information Security Officer, Sophos
Chloe Messdaghi, Lead, Microsoft Digital Defence Report, Microsoft
Daniel Woods, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Robert Duncan, Vice President Product Strategy, Netcraft
Rajeev Kapur, Vice President Enterprise Engineering, IT, Sophos
Ross McKerchar, Chief Information Security Officer, Sophos
Chloe Messdaghi, Lead, Microsoft Digital Defence Report, Microsoft
Daniel Woods, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Robert Duncan, Vice President Product Strategy, Netcraft
Cross Learning Threads
AI for Cyber Defence
Session Keywords
Application and product security, Detection, response, and forensics, Human factors and culture, Identity, authentication, and access, Strategy, governance, and risk
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