David Lalezari
Cybersecurity Leader Threat Informed Defense - NAB
NABThe city is awake but you are somewhere quieter, listening to a signal only half of you can hear - and somewhere in the dark something is already working, faster than the thought that would have asked it to. Silence consumes the Major's heart. This talk is a quiet field record of piloting AI agents from threat to response inside one of the harder environments in the world. Attendees will leave with the patterns that survived, the patterns that broke, and one philosophical residue worth carrying out: that the autonomy of agents, given honest room, reaches places our planning never will.
Biography
David is an accomplished cybersecurity professional who has led Architecture and Cybersecurity teams at National Australia Bank for the last eight years, following his experience as a software developer, penetration tester, security consultant, and engineer. With comprehensive expertise in Threat Intelligence, Digital Forensics and Incident Response and Digital and Cloud Security, he brings specialized knowledge of an attacker's mindset and "Systems Thinking" to help build strong and competent cyber security teams. An active participant with MITRE's the "Centre for Threat Informed Defence" through NAB's partnership, David leads the strategy for NAB's threat informed defence approach. He excels at translating technical threats into business risk contexts, driven by a passion for building inspiring experiences through data and threat analysis that enables more effective defense strategies and meaningful outcomes for organisations, customers and the Australian economy as a whole.