Topic: AI in Detection Engineering Against APT Campaigns
Abstract: Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) continue to evolve in sophistication, persistence, and scale, leveraging stealth techniques, living-off-the-land tactics, and increasingly automated attack methods to evade traditional security controls. As organizations struggle to keep pace with rapidly changing adversary behaviors, detection engineering is becoming a critical capability for building proactive and resilient cyber defense strategies. Artificial intelligence is now playing a transformative role in this evolution, enabling security teams to identify, analyze, and respond to complex threats with greater speed and precision. The current webinar explores how AI is reshaping detection engineering to combat modern APT campaigns. The session will examine how machine learning, behavioral analytics, and AI-driven correlation techniques can enhance visibility across enterprise environments. The webinar will also address the operational realities and limitations of AI in detection engineering, including challenges related to data quality, false positives, model drift, and adversarial evasion techniques. It will also highlight the importance of integrating threat intelligence, contextual analysis, and human expertise into AI-driven detection workflows to build adaptive and intelligence-led defense capabilities against sophisticated threat actors. Join us to gain insight into how AI can strengthen threat hunting, detection, and alert prioritization while improving the efficiency of security operations teams facing overwhelming volumes of telemetry and alerts.
Key Takeaways:
- Understanding how AI enhances detection engineering against advanced threats
- Leveraging behavioral analytics and machine learning to detect APT activity
- Improving threat hunting, anomaly detection, and alert prioritization with AI
- Integrating threat intelligence into AI-driven detection workflows
- Challenges of AI adoption and the importance of human oversight
- Best practices for building adaptive and intelligence-led detection capabilities
Speaker:
Don Warden II, Founder & President, Cyber Pros LLC
Bio: Don Warden II is the Founder and President of Cyber Pros LLC and a cybersecurity executive with more than 30 years of experience leading incident response, digital forensics, cyber threat intelligence, and offensive security operations across complex enterprise environments. Throughout his career, he has directed investigations involving ransomware, insider threats, cyber extortion, and advanced persistent attacks, helping organizations strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and improve security maturity.
A recognized speaker and cybersecurity strategist, Don specializes in the intersection of AI-driven security, ethical hacking, and modern threat defense. His work focuses on leveraging automation and artificial intelligence to enhance threat detection, streamline response operations, and proactively defend against evolving attack techniques.
Don holds multiple industry certifications, including Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH) and Certified Cyber Security Analyst (CCSA), along with a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance. His practical, real-world approach brings a unique blend of executive leadership, technical depth, and frontline incident response experience to every engagement.
