Conference
Sunburst — Taking Luck Out of Incident Response
Tuesday 03, 13:05h - 13:30h
| Auditorium II
Full Congress Pass
2026-11-03 13:05
2026-11-03 13:30
Europe/Madrid
Sunburst — Taking Luck Out of Incident Response
In 2020, the Russian SVR compromised SolarWinds' Orion build pipeline, and roughly 18,000 organizations downloaded the tainted update. Tim Brown, former CISO of SolarWinds, shares his first-person account of leading the response to SUNBURST, the SEC charges that followed, and five years to vindication.
Brown has often called that response lucky — the right help arrived, the team stayed aligned, transparency was a situational call rather than a plan, and the tabletop exercises they'd run hadn't covered this scenario. It worked, but it worked because of people and circumstance no organization can count on twice.
This keynote moves from that manual, human-driven response to what's possible today: how agentic AI is changing incident detection, triage, and response, and what it takes to replace luck with design — rehearsed, scenario-flexible playbooks and tooling that don't depend on who happens to be in the room when the call comes in.
Auditorium II
In 2020, the Russian SVR compromised SolarWinds' Orion build pipeline, and roughly 18,000 organizations downloaded the tainted update. Tim Brown, former CISO of SolarWinds, shares his first-person account of leading the response to SUNBURST, the SEC charges that followed, and five years to vindication.
Brown has often called that response lucky — the right help arrived, the team stayed aligned, transparency was a situational call rather than a plan, and the tabletop exercises they'd run hadn't covered this scenario. It worked, but it worked because of people and circumstance no organization can count on twice.
This keynote moves from that manual, human-driven response to what's possible today: how agentic AI is changing incident detection, triage, and response, and what it takes to replace luck with design — rehearsed, scenario-flexible playbooks and tooling that don't depend on who happens to be in the room when the call comes in.
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