(CS)2AI Online- Outpaced: Defending CI Against Rapidly Evolving Threats (May 20th)
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
How Critical Infrastructure Defends Against Threats That Arrive Faster Than the Playbook will examine the growing timing mismatch between critical infrastructure systems and the threats now moving against them.
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How Critical Infrastructure Defends Against Threats That Arrive Faster Than the Playbook will examine the growing timing mismatch between critical infrastructure systems and the threats now moving against them. The systems that power, move, treat, manufacture, and connect modern life were built for long service lives, slow refresh cycles, and predictable engineering change.
The threat is moving much faster than the traditional cycle can accommodate. Cyber operations, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and the accelerating transition to post-quantum cryptography are compressing the time between technical warning and operational consequences.
This panel will approach post-quantum readiness through the lens of acceleration, not vocabulary, asking what is changing, why it matters now, and why critical infrastructure cannot treat this as another enterprise IT upgrade. Harvest-now, decrypt-later risk means the distance to 'Q-Day' is less important than the sensitivity of the assets.
Hosted by Derek H.