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.

Smart cities, undersea cables, risks to the DNS, ransomware, GovCERT, software bills of materials, independent cyber threat intelligence, metrics, and the CyberPeace Institute are just a few of the topics our speakers will address at Swiss Cyber Storm 2025. Some of these topics are part of our focus topic – Resilience in a Mad, Mad World – while others focus on additional relevant security topics.

We are pleased to announce the following speakers for Swiss Cyber Storm 2025:

The following is a post by Mark Barwinski, the opening keynote speaker for Swiss Cyber Storm 2025. Mark has over 20 years of cybersecurity leadership experience spanning financial services, professional consulting, manufacturing, and government intelligence. In this blog post, he shares first-hand experiences of OPSEC failures from his time at the NSA, and offers strong advice for realistic OPSEC practices in 2025. By publishing this article for the first time, Swiss Cyber Storm hopes to provide a basis for further discussion.

Since the US election, the whole world seems to be descending into chaos.