Speaker: Tony Pietrocola, President, AgileBlue
What is your view on the current state of cybersecurity?
Tony Pietrocola: The current state on global cybersecurity probably could be summed up with one word and that word is intense. The cyber criminals are extraordinarily hard working and they are using every tool at their disposal right now, especially with the advent and the uh movement of A I and A I enabled attacks, deep fakes, uh more fraudulent tools. It's not just ransomware or um you know, a phishing email, it is much more sophisticated attacks. And if we've seen that sophisticated step up with social engineering, like we saw at the MGM casino uh hacking, these attacks are going to be stepped up because small and midsize businesses do not have the defenses that the large companies do. And the cybercriminals know they could use those small and midsize businesses literally as a bank uh to generate more revenue so they can get through what they need to get through, to create newer technologies to continue to be extremely formidable in terms of hacking.
What can visitors expect that’s new or different from AgileBlue’s participation at GISEC Global?
Tony Pietrocola: Look, we're excited to be part of um GC uh 2024. Um I think the last couple of years have been very exciting. Visitors can expect to see more of our A I enabled platform this year that includes Sapphire, our Generative A I um support um and sock analyst bot um that also includes automated intelligence where our technology with a very high degree of confidence can make automated decisions and move fast to stop or at least mitigate a potential cyberattack. So yeah, we look forward to showing a lot of our A I and more of our automated intelligence coming up at JEC.
What does GISEC Global mean to you, and how would you like to extend an invitation to visitors to meet AgileBlue at the GISEC Global event?
Tony Pietrocola: I've been going to GC now for the last uh two years. And I think uh GC Global is such an interactive experience bringing together literally some of the top companies thinkers, innovators um in the entire region. And when you bring all that talent into one show over the course of two or three days, um it's, it's just tremendous potential to share ideas, network um discuss how we can work together because we all have the same goal in mind and that is to do our best to at least mitigate and reduce um how our customers are potentially um hacked. And that's a key differentiator for all of us out there. We're working so hard for our customers. Um The invitation for any visitor should be to come to JC. Look at all this new technology, look at all this new innovation, meet some of the top players um that are servicing this sector. And uh hey, let's have a coffee together and discuss how we could win.
