
Date & Time: Wednesday, June 17, 10:00 AM ET
Location: Zoom link will be provided to registrants. A replay video will also be available after the webinar.
“In the era of Mythos, if you are defending, you are losing. It’s time to become undiscoverable.”
The cybersecurity industry is currently obsessed with “AI vs. AI,” a digital arms race where defenders are told the only way to stop an automated threat like Mythos is to deploy even more complex, AI-heavy “God Boxes.” But in the Operational Technology (OT) world, complexity isn’t a feature; it’s a vulnerability.
When AI-powered discovery tools can map networks, identify vulnerabilities across 50 operating systems, and craft custom exploits in milliseconds, the traditional “Detect and Respond” model fails. If an attacker can see your infrastructure, they’ve already won.
In this webinar, we strip away the marketing mythos to examine the cold reality of AI-driven kinetic threats. We will demonstrate how tools like Mythos exploit the “Complexity Tax” — the thousands of unnecessary code paths and open services found in traditional industrial gateways and security appliances.
We will discuss:
The Mythos Method: AI no longer waits to exploit Zero Days; it creates them.
The Failure of the “God Box”: Why centralizing security into a bloated, multi-service OS creates a single, high-value target for automated exploits, especially if a single system protects OT and IT.
Network Cloaking: The transition from “filtering” traffic to making critical assets fundamentally undiscoverable to any scan, human or machine.
The answer to AI-powered speed isn’t a faster alert; it’s a smaller attack surface. We will detail the BlastWave approach: a minimalist, “Secure by Design” architecture that turns off all non-essential services and removes the OS-level bloat that AI thrives on.
From Visible to Vanished: How to use cryptographic “knocking” to ensure your ports don’t even exist until authorized, preventing AI-powered reconnaissance.
Architecture over Algorithms: Why reducing code paths is a more effective defense than adding more “smart” layers.
The AI-Resistant Playbook: Insights into how the world’s most targeted firms are moving toward “Undiscoverable Networks” to future-proof against autonomous sabotage.
Tom Sego
CEO, BlastWave
Aaron Boyd
OT Cybersecurity Penetration Tester
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Moderator: Cam Cullen
CMO, BlastWave
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Its platform combines Passwordless Industrial MFA and Software-Defined Microsegmentation to deliver Zero Trust security for complex OT and IT environments — without the cost or complexity of traditional tools.
BlastWave empowers enterprises to protect critical infrastructure, reduce the attack surface, and comply with industrial security standards such as IEC 62443 — all while minimizing downtime and deployment friction.