Above everything else, there are two hot AI topics at the moment: Criminals using AI for their attacks and AI agents hacking their way into unpatched targets. And there seems to be a consensus, that exploits are hitting the servers faster, deepfakes are becoming more convincing and even low severity vulnerabilities start to get exploited as part of chained attacks.

But is this really everything? Is not there something really groundbreaking? Can we really conclude that AI is still limited to existing and know attack types?

Behavioral intelligence in an artificial world

I don’t know why, but putting together the program for Swiss Cyber Storm 2026—theme: Shadow IT—was a real challenge. But now it’s time for a brief overview of the speakers at this conference.

Seeing the Shadows: Securing What You Don’t Control

The conference schedule for Swiss Cyber Storm 2026 is now available online

Swiss Cyber Storm 2026 takes place on October 20 at the Kursaal Bern under the motto „Shadow IT” – when employees work around corporate policies to get things done, and what that means for security and compliance. Artificial intelligence—not just in the form of Shadow AI—will also receive ample attention, alongside other current topics.

I had just left university and started my first job in the industry when an emergency called my senior colleague, Sven, and me to Basel. We were there to meet with big pharma, of course. On the way to the train station, I picked up the O’Reilly Samba book, hoping it would help me cope with my impostor syndrome. I felt like Robin following Batman on a dangerous mission.