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How AI is Reshaping

Red Team Operations

Artificial intelligence hasn’t rewritten the attacker’s playbook; it has accelerated it. The kill chain remains familiar,
but every phase is now faster, cheaper, and more accessible to less-experienced operators. This session walks through a complete red team engagement and examines exactly where AI changes the economics of the attack.

About the Workshop

Artificial intelligence hasn’t rewritten the attacker’s playbook; it has accelerated it. The kill chain remains familiar, but every phase is now faster, cheaper, and more accessible to less-experienced operators. This session walks through a complete red team engagement and examines exactly where AI changes the economics of the attack.
 
We’ll cover identity-based attacks and how AI streamlines the supporting infrastructure; external reconnaissance, where AI’s real value is orchestration and triage at scale rather than novel discovery; and social engineering, where fluent, tailored pretexts have quietly retired old detection heuristics. Moving internal, we’ll look at AI as an OPSEC and tradecraft advisor that augments operator judgment during privilege escalation, lateral movement, and persistence.
 
Crucially, the session closes on the other side of the coin: the privacy and data-governance risks of feeding sensitive engagement data into AI systems, and practical mitigations, including redaction, human-in-the-loop controls, and local models. Attendees will leave understanding not just how adversaries are weaponizing AI, but how the same capabilities strengthen defense.

Workshop Details

  • Facilitator

Diego Marques
Director of Offensive Security, Arancia

Diego Marques is Director of Offensive Security at Arancia, leading a global practice across penetration testing, red teaming, and adversary simulation. With 10+ years in offensive security, he’s worked every layer of the discipline, from hands-on web, mobile, API, and network exploitation to directing delivery across 200+ enterprise engagements in finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. He came up as a full stack software engineer, which shapes a hands-on perspective on applying AI to red team ops: automating recon and exploitation, scaling adversary emulation, and augmenting tradecraft without losing operator control.

  • Workshop Date: 9 June 2026
  • Workshop Timings - Slot 1: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
  • Workshop Timings - Slot 2: 12:30 pm - 01:30 pm
  • Venue: 80 Armistice Dr, North York, ON M4N 1J8, Canada
  • Capacity is strictly limited to 20 participants to ensure meaningful interaction and discussion.

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