ISSA Sacramento Valley Chapter Meeting – 7/17/2026 – Corelight
Speaker: Mike Henkelman, Sr. Solutions Engineer at Corelight
Topic: “Defending Tomorrow: Blueprint for an AI-Resilient Security Posture”
Synopsis: This talk will focus on revisiting defense-in-depth architecture to withstand both AI-driven threats and the risks introduced by internal AI adoption. The session will outline practical strategies for hardening data pipelines, adapting traditional detection models to catch high-speed automated attacks, and establishing continuous governance over large language models (LLMs).
Speaker Bio: Mike is a seasoned cybersecurity expert with experience spanning network and systems security, incident response, and threat analysis. His work includes hands-on investigation of complex threats and building detection strategies that help organizations transform forensic data into timely, actionable insights.
Corelight is a leader in Open Network Detection and Response (Open NDR), delivering deep, evidence-based visibility across enterprise networks that helps defenders detect, investigate, and respond to sophisticated threats. Built on industry-trusted open-source foundations like Zeek® and Suricata®, Corelight’s platform transforms raw traffic into rich metadata, high-fidelity logs, extracted files, and contextual insights that accelerate threat hunting, forensic analysis, and incident response.
Meeting Details: This will be a hybrid meeting (both in-person and on-line). You may attend remotely via Zoom (see the meeting ID below) or attend in person at Capsity, 3808 Broadway, Sacramento CA. Lunch will be provided to in-person attendees.
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Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84186623031?pwd=EtHkuqg0it61fhLsaZIpC8aCHldHG9.1
Meeting ID: 841 8662 3031
Passcode: 668146