

Inside the Mythos Moment: A Practitioner's Read for CISOs and Their Boards
Mythos reached boardrooms before it reached most security teams, and that timing is why CISOs are now fielding questions they haven't had the chance to prepare for. Directors read the same articles and want to know whether the organization should be worried, what is already being done, and what comes next.
This session is built for the people on the receiving end of those conversations. Cracken CEO Artem spends most of his week hands-on with the agentic models and offensive tools that practitioners are actively testing, and he'll share how the working AI cybersecurity community is reading the Mythos moment — why it triggered the panic it did, what genuinely changes in the threat model, and which operational implications matter once the hype cycle settles.
What you'll walk away with:
A practitioner's read on why Mythos became a mainstream story, and what the community sees that the coverage largely missed
The operational questions worth raising with your team this quarter, grouped by urgency and effort
A working approach to the board conversation that treats directors as partners and keeps the discussion grounded in reality
A short list of moves worth considering in the next months
Who should attend:
Built for CISOs, security engineering leaders, and anyone preparing the next board update on AI-driven risk.
Host: Artem Sorokin, CEO of Cracken.
Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Artem’s focus on cybersecurity was shaped firsthand by nation-state cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. Advisor to Ukraine’s National Cybersecurity Coordination Center
(NCSCC). MIT MBA, 14+ years in AI and cybersecurity, with experience across Ukraine, the UK, the US, and Europe.