Tuesday, DECEMBER 4 2025
Cloud Email Security: Essential Defenses for Financial Services
11:00 -12:30 PM GMT | UKI
Event Overview
Phishing campaigns remain a top attack vector for gaining initial access to a victim’s network. CISOs face a rising challenge, with the total volume of phishing emails has already increased by 15%. Attacker innovation remains constant. Financial services firms report deepfakes already pose a clear and rising threat. More phishing emails also carry signs of AI tools touching their text, personalisation or payloads, as criminals seek greater automation.
With the sector seeing a surge in phishing campaigns employing more sophisticated tactics, CISOs must ensure they have the optimal tools, technology and business practices in place to track this threat and optimise their organisation’s defenses to repel it.
Among the discussion topics:
- Threat landscape: What are the top phishing threats targeting cloud email security?
- Why are multichannel attack strategies – attempting to shift victims away from email to SMS, voice attacks or callback phishing – surging?
- How are attackers abusing adversarial LLMs and agentic AI.
- How are deepfakes changing the game, especially for financial services?
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Moderator
Mathew Schwartz
Executive Editor
ISMG
James Dyer
Threat Intelligence Lead
KnowBe4
Speakers
This closed-door discussion brings together CISOs, CTOs, and senior security strategists to discuss securing Financial Services cloud email against phishing attacks.
This session will be:
- Chatham house rule
- Peer driven
- Pitch free
Subject matter expert
Robert Willis
Executive Vice President of Global Cyber Operations
Deepwatch
Robert Willis is the EVP of Global Cyber Operations at Deepwatch. Robert is a visionary global cybersecurity executive with over 20 years of experience in fortifying the defences of enterprises against threats and vulnerabilities, boosting the effectiveness of security operations, and inspiring teams to innovate, collaborate, and deliver service excellence. His diverse experience ranges from building out and leading global security practices within IT consultancies to advancing enterprise security operations and programs within multinational corporations.
Subject matter expert
Dennen Monks
Field Tech Strategist
CrowdStrike
Monks has 20 years of cybersecurity experience across network, data, cloud and applications. He helps
companies achieve streamlined operational states across people, process and technology. Monks
previously spent 10 years in professional services, five years at Skyhigh Networks in sales engineering,
and served as lead solution architect at Bionic.
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Venue
Smith and Wollensky
318 N State St, Chicago, IL 60654
Underwritten by
KnowBe4 empowers your workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by over 70,000 organisations worldwide, KnowBe4 helps you strengthen your security culture and manage human risk. KnowBe4 offers a comprehensive AI-driven ‘best-of-suite’ platform for human risk management (HRM), creating an adaptive defence layer that fortifies user behaviour against the latest cybersecurity threats.
The HRM+ platform includes modules for awareness and compliance training, cloud email security, real-time security coaching, crowdsourced anti-phishing, AI Defence Agents and more. As the only global security platform of its kind, KnowBe4 transforms your largest attack surface—your workforce—into your biggest asset, actively protecting your organisation against cybersecurity threats.
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