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Aleksander Yampolskiy speaks to leaders and their teams who are deeply concerned about the growing threat of digital breaches and the reputational and legal fallout that now comes with them.
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How to Regain Control of Your Data in an Interconnected World
You don’t need a nation-state to start a global crisis anymore. Just a teenager, a laptop, and bad intent. One deepfake in Singapore. One missed patch in Paris. One supplier in the wrong Slack channel. That’s the digital butterfly effect: a silent click in one time zone unleashes chaos in another. The riskiest part of your business today is no longer inside the house, it’s in the 3rd parties you are forced to engage with every single day. And recently, executives are starting to be held legally accountable. So, how do we protect our data, and our reputations, in a world where risk is seemingly out of our control?
Aleksander Yampolisky is a cybersecurity expert with a PhD. in cryptography and founder of Security Scorecard, a unicorn company valued at $1B with over 12,000,000 companies rated by their platform. In this session, Alex will reveal the future of security risk and why if we want to protect our companies, our data, and our jobs, we need to act more like hackers.
The Digital Butterfly Effect:
By the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:
Define what a truly secure company actually looks like.
Understand the mentality of hacker collectives.
Apply the same mindset in order to build more resilient companies and industries.
Why Admitting Vulnerability Is Our Strongest Defense
In cybersecurity, silence is often the norm. Companies hide breaches, fearing lawsuits, reputational damage, or shareholder panic. But here is the paradox: secrecy does not make us safer, it makes us weaker. One company’s cover-up today is tomorrow’s industry-wide blind spot. True defense begins when leaders admit the truth, even when it is uncomfortable.
Aleksander Yampolsky knows this firsthand. When his company detected a North Korean cyberattack, the easy option was to bury it. Instead, they went public. That bold move not only reshaped their own resilience but also sent ripples across the digital security world. Just like Google’s disclosure of Chinese attacks in 2010, and just like aviation and medicine before it, transparency can transform entire industries for the better.
In this session, Alex will reveal why the real strength in security does not come from hiding vulnerabilities but from sharing them. He will introduce a framework for "beneficial disclosure" that allows organizations to turn moments of crisis into lasting systems of trust and defense.
True Confessions
By the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:
Reframe vulnerability as a source of strength rather than weakness.
See how transparency in cybersecurity parallels breakthroughs in other high-stakes industries.
Apply a framework for "beneficial disclosure" within their own organizations.
Walk away with a new mindset: admitting we have been hacked might be the best defense we have.
Cybersecurity is complicated, but working with AleX is simple!
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Regain Control
Inspire your audience to earn trust in an increasingly unsafe world.