Nicole Perlroth & Garrett Hamilton at UCI - How AI Changes the Security Operating Model

Moderated by Nicole Perlroth, this session at UC Irvine’s Digital Leadership Agenda 2026 surfaces a foundational reality in cybersecurity:

Most organizations lack a clear, empirical understanding of how their security is actually deployed.

Our Co-founder & CEO Garrett Hamilton outlines:

Why proactive security remains difficult — because accuracy depends on conversations, assumptions, and fragmented knowledge across IT and security teams.

How AI shifts the operating model — providing a systems layer that interrogates every control directly, revealing shallow deployments, misconfigurations, and missing protections.

Common blind spots — from MFA enabled but incompletely rolled out, to wildcard email rules that expose executives, to ransomware modules “on” but never tied to the right network policies.

The strategic shift — reducing the noise entering security operations by strengthening preventative controls, rather than relying solely on reactive signal triage.

Thank you to UCI | Center for Digital Transformation for convening a thoughtful discussion at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity.

🎥 Watch the full panel discussion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch

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