A Roundtable on Cyber Strategy in the AI Era

An Exclusive Executive Reception & Roundtable Discussion

Join a select group of regional cyber executives alongside security leaders from Akamai and CDW for an intimate, off-the-record dinner and roundtable discussion. Moderated by Tony Lauro (Akamai’s Sr. Director of Security Strategy), the conversation will focus on real-world strategies for building operational resilience in the AI era.

Key discussion topics will include:

• Why traditional WAF rulesets struggle against AI-generated attack traffic — and what modern detection looks like.
• Discovering shadow, zombie, and undocumented APIs before an adversary does.
• Business logic abuse and BOLA: the vulnerabilities no signature-based control will catch.
• Securing agentic AI workflows, LLM endpoints, and the machine-to-machine traffic they generate.
• Lessons learned from recent field deployments — where WAF and API security programs stall, and what operational continuity planning actually requires. 

Drinks, appetizers, and dedicated networking time will follow the discussion.

Speaker profile:

Tony Lauro is Senior Director of Technology and Security Strategy at Akamai. Tony has worked with Akamai's top global clients to provide cybersecurity guidance, architectural analysis, web application, and network security expertise. With more than 25 years of information security operations experience, Tony has worked and consulted in many verticals, including finance, automotive, medical/healthcare, enterprise, and mobile applications.