Navigating Frontier AI, Cyber Risk, and the Rise of Mythos — A Partner Executive Fireside Chat
Date: Thursday, July 9 at 11am PT / 2pm ET
AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace reshaping the threat landscape, accelerating attack timelines, and forcing organizations to rethink how they secure and operate their digital environments. In parallel, emerging concepts like Mythos – the convergence of narrative, perception, and cyber risk at the board level – are redefining how leaders evaluate resilience, trust, and business impact.
Join Illumio for a dynamic, executive-level fireside chat featuring industry leaders from across the partner ecosystem as they unpack what this new era means for enterprises and how to act now.
Moderated by Illumio, this conversation brings together distinct market perspectives from our partner ecosystem including:
- Deloitte – a Global Systems Integrator – focusing on delivering strategic transformation at scale – cares how frontier AI and evolving threat models are reshaping enterprise architecture, risk frameworks, and board-level decision-making
- BT – a Managed Services Provider (MSP) – focusing on delivering continuous protection including how managed services are evolving to operationalize Zero Trust, contain breaches, and manage AI-driven risk in real time
- World Wide Technology (WWT) – a Value-Added Reseller – focusing on bridging innovation to execution including how customers are validating, integrating, and operationalizing AI-driven security solutions in complex environments
Together, the panel will explore:
- The real-world impact of frontier AI on cyber threats and defense strategies
- Why Mythos is emerging as a critical lens for cyber resilience and executive alignment
- How partners are helping customers restrict lateral movement, contain breaches, and reduce blast radius
- Proven approaches to operationalizing Zero Trust and microsegmentation across hybrid environments
- What organizations must do now to stay ahead of accelerating risk
Who Should Attend:
- CISOs, CIOs, security and risk leaders, and executives responsible for cyber resilience, digital transformation, and AI strategy.
Key Takeaway:
- Gain actionable insights from across the ecosystem on how to move from strategy to execution leveraging partner expertise and modern segmentation to reduce risk, accelerate resilience, and confidently adopt AI.
Don’t just respond to the evolving threat landscape – get ahead of it.
REGISTER NOW to learn how leading partners are helping organizations turn disruption into resilient advantage.
About the presenters:
Andrew Rafla, Partner, Deloitte
Andrew is a Deloitte Cyber Principal who has a deep technology and operations background spanning his more than 25-year career in cybersecurity. He focuses on helping clients enhance operational efficiency while reducing exposure to cyberthreats and managing operational, regulatory, and emerging risks.
Andrew developed Deloitte’s Zero Trust offering, has extensive experience in network and infrastructure security, adversarial simulation, security operations, and threat detection & response. He has served a myriad of clients across industries and is currently the global cyber leader for the Deloitte Microsoft Technology Practice (DMTP), where he aligns Deloitte’s industry-leading cyber services to help clients capitalize on their investments and enhance their security posture.
Mahmood Syed, Principal Cybersecurity Sales Engineer, BT
Mahmood has been a dedicated security practitioner for over 25 years, acting as a trusted advisor to customers on all aspects of cyber security and risk management. His multi-sector experience covers cyber consultancy and strategy, technical design and architecture and managed security services.
Mahmood also represents us at a number of cybersecurity conferences, presenting on the latest security trends, threat landscape and operational security management. Mahmood provides trusted advice on all matters of digital security to both large and small customers.
Chris Konrad, VP of Global Cyber, World Wide Technology (WWT)
Chris is a global cyber leader setting strategy driving go-to-market alignment, practice development, and partner ecosystem integration. Working closely with executive leadership teams and boards he embeds cybersecurity into enterprise transformation linking resilience, AI adoption, infrastructure modernization, and measurable business performance.
With more than 28 years of experience across consulting, professional services, and executive leadership, Chris is recognized for aligning security investment with enterprise priorities and translating complex risk into durable competitive advantage. He collaborates with advisory boards and C-level stakeholders to ensure cyber programs are aligned with regulatory expectations, operational realities, and long-term strategic objectives.
Date: 07/09/2026
Time: 11:00 AM PT
Duration: 1 hour