CYBER & LAUGHS - Shadow AI Inside, AI Attackers Outside: How Are CISOs Staying Ahead?
Wednesday 4 November 2026 · 6:00 PM · The Groucho Club, Soho
Hosted by CYBER & BEATS, a cyber leaders dinner + comedy standup set with Simon Evans
If the board asked tonight where AI is being used across the business, and whether those devices and users are properly protected, could you answer?
Inside the business, AI is arriving faster than any approval process. Staff sign up for new tools, agents get installed on endpoints, and each one is a new asset with access to your data that no inventory has caught up with.
Outside, attackers are using AI to move faster and automate more. That raises the stakes on the basics: knowing every device and user, and proving the controls on them are actually working.
Join a private CYBER & BEATS roundtable with security leaders from across financial services, from fast-growing fintechs to established names, on how they are staying ahead of both.
Discussion points
Do you know where AI is being used across the business, and are those devices and users properly protected?
Are the problems your team faces today the same as before AI, or different?
With AI driving faster, more automated attacks, does that raise the stakes on basic hygiene or pull attention away from it?
Cyber insurers, accreditations and auditors want evidence that controls are working, not just installed. How are you meeting that, and how much manual effort does it take?
What have people already tried, and what broke?
The evening
6:00 PM — Arrival drinks, dinner & roundtable under Chatham House Rules
9:30 PM — Live stand-up from Simon Evans
After — drinks at the bar
The room
One table, personally curated: CISOs and heads of cyber security from across financial services running large, fast-moving estates. No audience, no slides, no sales in the room, no hard follow-up, details never shared.
The venue
The Groucho Club — Soho's most storied celebrity private members' club. Phones away, no photographs, nothing leaves the room.
Sponsor
ThreatAware answers the question every CISO gets asked: is everything actually protected? It connects to the tools you already run via API, with no agents, to give one accurate view of every device, user and application. Timeline Matching shows exactly where controls are missing or not working, checked every 60 minutes, so teams reach 99%+ control coverage and have the evidence ready for DORA, NIS 2 and Cyber Essentials Plus. They join the table as guests, not presenters.