Berlin Cybersecurity Social #30 x Idealo
This session is part of the Berlin Cybersecurity Social community’s monthly meetup, where security professionals, leaders, and enthusiasts come together to share knowledge and connect. So are you a cybersecurity professional looking to connect with like-minded professionals, share experiences, and make friends? Look no further!
Join us for a special edition hosted in partnership with Idealo.
**Please note: This event has a strict capcity limit of 80 people. Please only sign up if you can attend or cancel if you cannot attend. In order to attend, full name and email and company is required on the registration. You will be required to show a valid ID that matches your registration at the Idealo office venue. Signups will be turned off 48 hours prior to the event.**
Lightning Talk: From Alert Triage to Autonomous Investigation: Our Agentic AI Journey
What if your security alerts could investigate themselves?
At idealo, the team built an AI-powered triage platform that gathers context, correlates evidence across security data sources, and turns noisy alerts into clear investigation summaries.
The difficult part wasn’t simply connecting AI to security tools. It was figuring out how much autonomy to give the system, how to keep investigations focused, how to manage secure access, how to deal with incomplete evidence, and ultimately how to prove that the conclusions were reliable.
In this talk, the team will share:
What worked and what didn’t
How they approached autonomy and guardrails
How they evaluate AI-generated investigations against human analyst conclusions
The challenges of working with incomplete or ambiguous evidence
Lessons learned turning agentic AI from a demo into something useful for real security operations
Panel: Building Security Teams in the AI Era
We’ll follow the talk with a panel looking beyond the technology itself and asking what these changes mean for the people building and joining security teams.
As AI takes on more repetitive analysis and early-stage work, how do we make sure new security professionals still develop the experience and judgement they need? What skills will security leaders increasingly look for? And how should companies rethink hiring, training, and career development as the work itself changes?
We’ll explore topics including:
How AI is changing the skills security teams need
The impact of automation on different career levels and roles
How people gain practical experience when AI can perform more entry-level tasks
Emerging skills gaps in cybersecurity
How security leaders should think about training and developing new colleagues
What hiring managers and recruiters will value in the next generation of security talent
About the Speakers
Ali Alwashali is a Detection and Response Specialist with experience in modern security operations, cloud security, and incident response. He has worked on designing detection systems, strengthening security teams capabilities, and investigating complex security incidents across large-scale cloud environments.
More recently, his work has focused on, building AI-driven systems that support alert triage, gather investigation context, and help analysts focus on the incidents that require human attention. His work brings together security engineering, automation, cloud technologies, and AI to improve how security teams investigate and respond to threats.
Mike Lesniak is Head of Information Security at idealo and has built security functions from scratch twice: first at ImmobilienScout24 and later at idealo.
Starting his career as a hands-on security engineer, Mike has since built and scaled security teams and programs spanning penetration testing, incident response, secure architecture, ISMS, GRC, security products, and organizational security strategy. Today, he leads a multi-team security department while staying closely connected to the technical side of the field.
Christian Becker is an information security leader with more than 15 years of experience across security engineering, incident response, and information security management. Today, he leads Security Detection & Response at idealo, combining people leadership with his role as Security Product Owner.
His current focus areas include detection and response, cloud security, and the opportunities and risks that AI creates for security. He is a CISM and holds several certifications in cloud and AI security.
About idealo is one of Europe’s leading price comparison platforms, helping consumers make informed purchasing decisions across more than 600 million offers from around 50,000 retailers. Founded in Berlin in 2000, idealo now operates across six European markets and combines large-scale technology, data, and e-commerce expertise to make online shopping more transparent.
About Berlin Cybersecurity Social: This meetup is open to cybersecurity professionals of all levels, from beginners to experts. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting your journey in the field, this event is the perfect opportunity to connect with others who share your passion for cybersecurity.