17:00 - 17:10 Begrüssung / Welcome Note
Bernhard Egger, Professor and Program Head BSc Information & Cyber Security, HSLU
17:10 - 17:40 Cybersecurity in the age of AI: Between Doom and Dismissal
Andrei Kucharavy, Associate Professor, HES-SO Valais-Wallis & Cyber-Defence Campus (CYD)
Recent announcements of LLM performance in cybersecurity have been met by despair by some, dismissal by others. However, these recent achievements have been anticipated by the LLM cyberdefence community, and both LLM's strengths and weaknesses have been described in the past. This talk will perform a retrospective of 2023 forecast of LLM impact on Swiss cyber operational environment, followed by a current state overview and an attempt at 2–4-year horizon expert guess of where the field might be heading.
17:40 - 18:10 Insecure by Design: The LLM Vulnerability in AI Agents
Dr. Niklas Pfister, Staff Research Scientist, Lakera
AI agents are being deployed everywhere, but they inherit a fundamental flaw from their LLM backbones: the inability to separate data from instructions. This talk isolates the LLM vulnerability from traditional security flaws, shows how prompt attacks exploit it in real agent scenarios, and briefly looks at how today's leading LLMs measure up.
18:10 - 18:40 Breaking and Securing AI Applications
Nils Amiet, Senior Security Researcher, Kudelski Security
AI tools deliver major productivity gains, making them irresistible to developers, who often accept broad permissions as a trade-off, creating a rapidly expanding attack surface under pressure to ship quickly. In our assessment of 12+ AI developer tools, we found serious vulnerabilities in most, some with high impact. This talk explores how AI applications and agents fail in practice, highlights common attack patterns, and presents pragmatic strategies to reduce risk while maintaining development speed.
Ca. 18:45 Apéro-Riche und Socializing
Wir heissen Sie herzlich willkommen.
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Egger, Studiengangleiter BSc Information & Cyber Security, HSLU, Organisator SecTalk
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hämmerli, Ambassador, Information & Cyber Security, HSLU
Frank Heinzmann, Stv. Studiengangleiter BSc Information & Cyber Security, HSLU
