Registration Required: September 10, 2026 – 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Pacific Time | 2 CPEs
Session One: Hot Takes On How AI Is Changing Offensive Security, Veria Labs
A discussion of how AI has transformed hacking both offensively and defensively, as well as speculating on how it will continue to do so in the future.
About Your Speaker: Stephen Xu, Veria Labs
Stephen Xu is a Lead Security Researcher and Offensive AI expert. As Co-Founder and CEO of Veria Labs, he builds autonomous red-teaming agents that continuously test software for critical vulnerabilities. A competitive hacker by background, Stephen specializes in finding the logic flaws that static analysis tools miss—recently uncovering zero-day RCE exploits in major AI platforms.
About Veria Labs
Veria Labs (verialabs.com) is an AI-native offensive security platform focused on autonomous vulnerability discovery and exploitation. Founded by members of the #1 U.S. competitive hacking team, Veria Labs builds specialized AI agents that integrate directly into Git repositories and CI/CD pipelines to continuously analyze codebases for deep, complex vulnerabilities that traditional tools often miss. These agents operate at machine speed to identify exploitable flaws, generate real-world proof-of-concept exploits to validate risk, and reduce false positives. By combining autonomous discovery with context-aware remediation guidance, Veria Labs helps organizations shift offensive security left—enabling high-confidence validation of critical risks before they reach production.
Session Two: The Death of Point-in-Time Pentesting & The Rise of Agentic Red-Teaming, Casco
René Brandel, Founder and CEO of Casco, walks us through why traditional annual penetration testing fails in a rapid, AI-driven development environment. With context drawn from real-world agent behaviors, security boundaries, and lessons from AI incidents, René will focus on 4 major areas where modern development workflows with AI agents experience continuous risks and surface solutions to effectively mitigate them:
- The Shift to Always-On Security Testing
- AI Agent Behavior & Unintended Exploits
- The 4 Guardrails for Tool-Using Agents
- FedRAMP & Government-Grade Security
About René Brandel, Founder & CEO, Casco
René Brandel is the Founder & CEO of Casco, an AI-native security company providing always-on, autonomous red-teaming and security testing across web apps, APIs, infrastructure, and AI systems. Casco recently raised a Series A at a $100M valuation led by Standard Capital/Y Combinator and became the first All-American Agentic Offensive Security tool listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace.
Prior to founding Casco, René was Head of Product at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he created Kiro—one of the fastest-adopted IDEs in history (100,000 developers within three days)—and led AWS Amplify Gen 2. He also served as a Program Manager at Microsoft, leading cross-platform intelligence SDKs and developer integrations across Teams, Skype, and Office.
About Casco
Casco (casco.com) provides autonomous security testing for web applications, APIs, infrastructure, and AI systems. Moving beyond traditional, intermittent penetration testing, Casco offers “always-on” security that integrates directly into the development lifecycle. The platform utilizes advanced intelligence to identify critical vulnerabilities, such as broken object-level authorization and prompt injection. Every finding is safely exploited to prove its business impact. Casco also allows users to one-click retest and generate code fixes for every finding. Casco is trusted by over 250 companies, from high-growth startups like CrewAI to large enterprises like Gusto. As a Gold Sponsor of OWASP AI Exchange, Casco is committed to advancing AI-driven security standards for the global developer community.
