Roundtable
Information Security

IBM/ Microsoft: When the Breach Hits: An Executive Cyber Crisis Simulation & Breakfast Briefing on AI-Powered Defence

Join IBM and Microsoft for breakfast at IBM's Austin campus, then step inside the IBM X-Force Cyber Range. In a realistic, immersive breach simulation, you and your peers will make the calls that matter in real time.
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October 19, 2026
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Discussion Points

1. The first hour of a breach: who decides what?

How leadership teams work together under pressure, and where response plans tend to fail when they meet reality.

2. Frontier AI threats and the case for autonomous security.

Why attacks driven by AI need detection and containment at machine speed, and how much leaders should trust automated response.

3. Governing agentic AI in your own defences.

How to adopt AI agents for cyber defence while keeping oversight, accountability and regulatory confidence.

When the Breach Hits: An Executive Cyber Crisis Simulation & Breakfast Briefing on AI-Powered Defence

AI is changing cyber attacks faster than most organisations can change how they respond. A breach is no longer just an IT problem. It reaches patient care, student services, regulatory standing, revenue and reputation within hours.

Join IBM and Microsoft for breakfast at IBM's Austin campus, then step inside the IBM X-Force Cyber Range. In a realistic, immersive breach simulation, you and your peers will make the calls that matter in real time: when to escalate, what to disclose, how to keep operations running, and who owns which decision.

After the simulation, IBM will show how autonomous security helps organisations detect and contain frontier AI threats at machine speed. Microsoft will then share its agentic cyber defence strategy and how the two approaches work together. The morning ends with a short wrap-up and next steps, followed by an optional session on the IBM Innovation Studios Ferrari race simulator.

This session is designed for senior leaders who share responsibility for resilience across technology, security, risk, compliance, AI and the wider business. It is especially relevant to healthcare and higher education organisations across the Austin area.

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Agenda

8:30 AM
9:00 AM
Arrival & Breakfast
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
IBM Cyber Range Experience
10:00 AM
10:30 AM
IBM's Autonomous Security to Combat Frontier AI Threats
10:30 AM
11:00 AM
Microsoft's Agentic Cyber Defense Strategy

Better Together and Wrap Up

Closing Remarks and Next Steps

11:00 AM
12:00 PM
IBM Innovation Studios Activation: Ferrari Race Simulator (Optional)
8:30 AM
9:00 AM
Arrival & Breakfast
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
IBM Cyber Range Experience
10:00 AM
10:30 AM
IBM's Autonomous Security to Combat Frontier AI Threats
10:30 AM
11:00 AM
Microsoft's Agentic Cyber Defense Strategy
11:00 AM
12:00 PM
IBM Innovation Studios Activation: Ferrari Race Simulator (Optional)

About the Hosts

About IBM Security Services

IBM Security Services helps organisations prepare for, detect and respond to cyber threats, using the experience of IBM X-Force. X-Force is IBM's team of threat researchers, incident responders and offensive security specialists. It responds to real-world breaches every day and publishes the annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, a widely followed view of how attackers operate.

The IBM X-Force Cyber Range puts that front-line experience into an immersive setting. Leadership teams rehearse a live breach together before a real one forces them to. IBM pairs this readiness work with consulting, managed security services and AI-driven autonomous security, so organisations can find and contain threats at machine speed.

About Microsoft Security

Microsoft Security protects organisations across identity, endpoints, cloud, data and AI. It draws on threat signals from one of the largest technology footprints in the world. Its portfolio includes Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Security Copilot. Together these products give security teams a unified view of their environment and AI agents that help them investigate and respond faster.

Microsoft's agentic cyber defence strategy is about two things: using AI agents to strengthen defenders, and securing the AI agents that organisations are now deploying across their own businesses.

Better Together: IBM and Microsoft

IBM and Microsoft bring complementary strengths to the same challenge. IBM brings X-Force threat intelligence, incident response experience and hands-on crisis readiness. Microsoft brings the security platform and AI that many organisations already run on.

Together, they help organisations get the most from their existing Microsoft investments, prepare their people for the moment a breach happens, and use AI to defend at the speed that today's threats demand.

IBM and Microsoft

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11800 Alterra Pkwy, Austin, TX 78758

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