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So excited about this meeting's location - please join us at the Michigan State University Innovation Center for our next Chapter meeting!!!
*Event may display as "Full" when Registering. Attendees will be added to Waitlist until approved.
About this event
This meeting will be focused on the world's favorite topic, AI.
We'll start with the latest on how attackers are leveraging AI models for their nefarious deeds, shift into Google's multi-layered security approach to protect AI systems, and finish with how AI Agents are helping the Defenders speed up incident investigations and Threat Intel research.
We will be taking a tour of the Michigan Sate University Innovation Center after the meeting and hosting a happy hour for those who would like to network post meeting.
Speakers
Joe Gombos
Google Cloud Security Principal Architect
Andrew Crabtree
Google Cloud Apigee Customer Engineer
Richard Hart
Google
Principal Security Architect
James Kelly
Google Cloud Security Solutions Engineer
When
Thursday, December 4, 2025 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM (UTC)
Joe Gombos, Google Cloud Security Principal Architect will brief us on how cybercriminals are leveraging large language models (LLMs) to enhance their operations. Acting as a powerful force multiplier, these LLMs provide cybercriminals with technical support that boosts the frequency, intensity, and success rates of their malicious activities. This new threat landscape highlights how advanced AI tools, while helpful for many, are also being exploited to create more effective and frequent cyber threats.
7:00 PM
Architecting Defenses for OWASP API & LLM Risks
Andrew Crabtree from the Google Cloud Apigee Customer Engineering team will lead a technical deep dive on securing AI and API services on Google Cloud. This session moves beyond the "what" of the OWASP Top 10 for APIs and LLMs to focus on the "how," covering specific configurations and integration patterns. The presentation will explore the AI Gateway Pattern for centralized policy enforcement, ML-Powered Anomaly Detection using Advanced API Security to find shadow APIs and abuse, and Prompt Injection Countermeasures with Model Armor policies to protect back-end models like Vertex AI, Gemini, or other 3rd party models.
7:45 PM
Break
8:00 PM
Security Santa's lil helpers... AI Agents
Richard Hart, Principal Security Architect and James Kelly, Security Solutions Engineer will demonstrate how AI Agents are speeding up incident investigations and Threat Intel research in SecOps / Google Threat Intel.. and how you can build your own AI Agents to leverage Google's published MCP tools to extend your security capabilities.
8:45 PM
Meeting Wrap Up
9:00 PM
Tour of the Innovation Center
Info about Innovation Center: https://innovationcenter.msu.edu/
9:45 PM
Networking Happy Hour (Optional)
We are headed to "The Jolly Pumpkin" post meeting for some networking time.
