2026 Speaker – Tom Harrison

Standing On The Shoulders of Robots – AI for Attackers; Where the **** are we?

Speaker card with photo of Tom Harrison and the text 'I'm speaking on Track 2, Sat 13th June'

Track 2 – 1:30pm

Tom Harrison

Bio

Tom has been a hacker since birth and managed to turn that into a career of over 20 years in infosec. Currently Global Head of Offensive Security at a large financial services company, Tom has been in the offensive security space for over 10 years with specialisms across social engineering, red team operations, drop devices and more!

Pronouns

He/Him

Talk Abstract

The offensive security landscape is changing rapidly (like the rest of the world) with GenAI, and vendors are promising "Automated Red Teams" and "Virtual Attackers" and anyone who gets an agent to run metasploit over MCP is front page news and "Proof of AI malware". This talk is designed to look at what GenAI for attackers does well, where we still need humans and where it might be heading in the context of both Red Teaming and the wider threat landscape.

Intended Audience

Cyber Professionals, particularly in the Offensive Security space, but should be accessible to anyone with some technical knowledge.

How NSFW is this talk?

(How spicy is your talk in chilli's?)

Medium – only swearing will be unintentional

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