Jared Naude
Jared is the Head of Security at Synthesis, where he specializes in enterprise cloud architecture. Jared is passionate and deeply committed to guiding large organizations through the complexities of architecting, securing and operationalizing enterprise cloud environments. Beyond Jared’s professional responsibilities, Jared is an enthusiastic advocate for community building, serving as the organizer of several local security events, including 0xcon, BSides Cape Town, and BSides Joburg. Jared’s research focuses on cybersecurity topics that intersect with national security and foreign policy issues such as encryption, privacy, surveillance, disinformation, and nation-state activity.
Session
Detection engineering is about more than alerts and SIEM rules; it is the practice of understanding attacker behaviour and building the visibility needed to detect it. As AI becomes embedded into enterprise environments through agents, copilots, and connected ecosystems, organisations face new identity, data, and supply chain risks that are difficult to monitor using traditional approaches. This talk explores how detection engineering can help illuminate these emerging threats and asks a bigger question: if every breach contains valuable lessons, why does cybersecurity still lack an effective way to share them with the wider industry?