Webinar  đź“…   Sept 9, 2026   I  10:00AM PT / 1:00PM ET

Defending the Keys to the Kingdom: Resilient Infrastructure vs. AI-Capable Adversaries

For CIOs and infrastructure leaders, the traditional playbook for securing infrastructure is no longer effective. In an era when frontier AI models can discover and weaponize software vulnerabilities in minutes, treating security as an afterthought to be "patched in" creates unsustainable operational overhead and unacceptable business risk. Because network infrastructure holds the keys to the enterprise kingdom, an exploit at this core layer can significantly impact an organization’s security posture.

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Join technology, infrastructure, and security leaders for an exclusive executive briefing where we will challenge the legacy "patch-and-pray" mindset and bridge the gap between architectural resilience and real-world defense. We begin by analyzing the foundational blueprint with Ken Duda, Arista's President and CTO, and Lee Klarich, Chief Product and Technology Officer from Palo Alto Networks. Listen to understand why software architecture is key to gaining visibility into your attack surface, limiting the blast radius, and improving patching efficiency.

The conversation then expands into a dynamic executive roundtable featuring the CISOs of Anthropic (Jason Clinton), Arista (Jason Bevis), and Palo Alto Networks (Marc Benoit). Together, they will detail how security programs must evolve to use AI to amplify your threat modeling, proactive security assessments, and operational security efforts, with a focus on fewer fire drills and rapid risk mitigation.

Strategic Takeaways for Tech & Infra Leaders:

  • Architectural Resilience Matters: Why software architecture is key to limiting proliferation of vulnerabilities.
  • Mitigating the Blast Radius: How to design security programs that use AI to drive prevention and containment strategies that combat the AI-augmented threat landscape.
  • Telemetry as Ground Truth: Why real-time visibility into your infrastructure is more important than ever.

Speakers

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Ken Duda

President, Chief Technology Officer and Founder, Arista Networks

Ken Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software, the lead architect of Arista’s EOS and the Network Data Lake (NetDL), and drives innovation across Arista's products for cloud titans and AI customers. He is also the co-author of network virtualization specifications, including VXLAN with VMware and NVGRE with Microsoft. Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco. Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Lee Klarich

Lee Klarich

Chief Product and Technology Officer, Palo Alto Networks

Since early product inception in 2006, Lee Klarich has served as the head of product management at Palo Alto Networks, overseeing the product strategy and roadmap and playing a key role in delivering our Next-Generation Security Platform. In August 2017, he became chief product officer with responsibility for both engineering and product management for the company. In August 2025, he joined the Palo Alto Networks Board of Directors and was named Chief Product and Technology Officer, tasked with leading the company's AI and platformization initiatives to deliver real-time, AI-driven security. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he was the director of product management for Juniper Networks, where he was responsible for firewall/VPN platforms and software. He joined Juniper Networks through the NetScreen Technologies acquisition, where he managed the same product line. Previously, he held various positions at Excite@Home and Packard Bell-NEC. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Cornell University.

Marc Benoit

Marc Benoit

Chief Information Security Officer, Palo Alto Networks

Marc Benoit serves as the Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and leads the engineering team within the office of the CTO at Palo Alto Networks. Mr. Benoit has cultivated extensive expertise in Information Security through a variety of leadership and strategic roles, including key positions within the CPO's office and as an Architect. Since commencing his tenure at Palo Alto Networks in 2010, Mr. Benoit’s technical leadership and visionary approach have been instrumental in driving innovation and spearheading critical security initiatives across the organization. He is recognized for leveraging his profound technical background to translate emerging technologies and strategic vision into tangible, secure business outcomes, focusing on addressing complex industry challenges such as emerging threats in software supply chain and connected ecosystem environments. Furthermore, Mr. Benoit is dedicated to operating at the forefront of safely enabling the use of Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity, as well as developing robust Cybersecurity measures for AI systems.

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Jason Bevis

AVP and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Arista Networks

Jason serves as the Chief Information Security Officer at Arista Networks, where he leads the global strategy to protect the organization’s hyper-scale cloud networking infrastructure. With over two decades of deep technical expertise and executive leadership, Jason is dedicated to building an AI- and security-aligned culture that empowers global teams while safeguarding critical assets. By bridging the gap between cutting-edge technologies and business enablement, he ensures robust digital defense without sacrificing organizational agility. Prior to joining Arista, Jason drove defense strategies at industry-defining security giants, including Cylance, FireEye-Mandiant, Foundstone-McAfee, and KPMG Consulting. Throughout his career, he has been instrumental in deploying disruptive technologies and building comprehensive security programs from the ground up—scaling them to protect everything from fast-growing startups and national political conventions to Fortune 500 enterprises. A respected voice in the industry, Jason frequently speaks on emerging threat landscapes and serves as a cybersecurity advisor to the professional certificate programs at both Pace and Rutgers University.

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Jason Clinton

dCISO, Anthropic

Jason joined Anthropic in April 2023 as its first CISO after more than a decade at Google, where he most recently led Chrome infrastructure security working on defense against advanced persistent threats. While at Google, he also worked on ChromeOS and Android Pay. At Anthropic, Jason guides security strategy including detection and response, compliance, physical security, security engineering and IT. Jason promotes the security organization's work to uphold Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy framework, ensuring that the company has appropriate security safeguards in place for the responsible development and deployment of AI models. He is also the author of "Ruby Phrasebook".

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