We have several workshops in Track 4 this year. If any require separate registration, it will be indicated below. Remember to select sessions you want to attend to create a personal CornCon schedule in the mobile app!
Professional AI Workshop: Use/Build/Deploy AI Responsibly (Now FREE)
1:30-4:30 PM Saturday, October 11, 2025
Description: This is a professionally delivered workshop for attendees. We have seating for 30. The content promises to improve your knowledge of working with AI and building business value. Bring your computer or just follow along! Loaner computers may be available to check out.
Details: Organizations are under tremendous pressure to deploy AI to improve productivity and stay competitive in their industry. AI presents risk from both a technical implementation, Red and Blue team and legal perspectives.
Most organizations rush AI deployments without effective oversight. There is little guidance or training available for Red and Blue teams, Execs, HR, Legal and Finance to understand and be ready with an AI Incident Response plan for when things go wrong.
Join our workshop to learn how to responsibly deploy and manage AI in your organization from a policy and implementation perspective.
The 3 hour workshop will begin at 1:30 PM and go to 4:30 PM. You will be forming small groups that will create a best practice approach to creating a responsible AI deployment for a fictitious company.
Once deployed there will a real world scenario where you will create an AI deployment on the GT Edge AI platform which will go rogue. You will then have to run your Incident Response plan that you created in the morning and get things back on track.
Your incident response will include various situations both from a technical perspective, lawsuits and business impacting events including potential reputational damage from unwanted media coverage. Be prepared, anything could happen!
You will come away with increased confidence to deploy AI responsibly based on real world scenarios.
The workshop will conclude with a 30-minute CTF.
Sponsor: GT Edge AI, a US company that builds and delivers Private AI systems in multiple world regions built entirely on open source software. These systems ensure total data privacy and customer data is never collected or used to train third party AI models or used for marketing or advertising purposes.
Speaker: David Simpson, AI Solutions Architect, GT Edge AI
Hands-on with local LLMs: simplifying detection and remediation
9-11 AM, Friday, October 10, 2025
Description: This interactive workshop designed for security and development professionals looking to modernize their approach to application security. In this session, you’ll discover how local large language models (LLMs) can be harnessed to quickly and easily identify vulnerabilities in your codebase and streamline the process of fixing them. In this workshop, I will show how to do it on a budget while maintaining the privacy of not releasing your data to AI providers.
Speaker: Dmitry Moiseev, Sr. Director of Engineering, Cambium Networks
Leadership in Action: A Hands-On Incident Response Experience
11 AM – 1 PM, Friday, October 10, 2025
Description: Effective leadership is crucial during a cybersecurity incident—but leadership isn’t limited to titles. This interactive tabletop exercise invites professionals from across the organization—technical, operational, and leadership roles—to step into decision-making positions during a simulated cyber crisis.
Participants will navigate a realistic scenario, addressing challenges such as phishing attacks, data breaches, and organizational risk management. The session emphasizes practical strategies to recognize threats, communicate under pressure, and coordinate response efforts effectively.
Attendees will leave equipped with actionable insights to enhance collaboration, improve incident readiness, and lead with confidence in the face of uncertainty.
This session can scale from a one-hour mini experience to a three-hour deep dive. The extended version allows time for participants to explore their role, reflect on lessons learned, and document improvements to their own incident response processes.
Scenarios can also be tailored to match the cybersecurity concerns most relevant to your community, event, or industry.
Speaker: Christina Hartman, Founder, Banshee Cybersecurity LLC
The Mind is the Attack Surface: A Hands-On Primer in Cognitive Security
1-4 PM, Friday, October 10, 2025
Description: Cybersecurity has long focused on firewalls, patches, and scripted defenses against technical exploits. But what do we do when the target is cognition itself? How does one defend against cognitive threats?
This hands-on workshop introduces the emerging field of cognitive security and the impact it has on our industry. Through interactive exercises, participants will experience their own cognitive blind spots firsthand and quickly learn how to start defending against potential exploitation.
Join us as we map biases, introduce frameworks, run adversarial simulations where teams weaponize psychological levers against each other, and build practical toolkits for everyday defense.
Participants will leave with:
A clear definition of cognitive security and how it differs from cybersecurity.
Firsthand recognition of cognitive biases and vulnerabilities that can compromise even seasoned professionals.
Practical countermeasures, open-source tools, and exercises for cultivating resilience.
Are you ready to experience a reality pentest for your brain? Come ready to challenge your assumptions, and leave with new defenses you didn’t know you needed.
Speakers: Winn Schwartau, Director of Research, Cognative Security Institute & Kayley Melton, CSI