Michigan User Group - Dec 2025

Name: Michigan User Group - Dec 2025
Start: 2025-12-04T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-04T17:00:00-05:00
Location: East Lansing Technology Innovation Center

Dec 4, 2025, 6:00 – 10:00 PM (UTC)

Michigan User Group

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.
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Click below to access event presentations:** GenAI Attack Vectors and Observed Threat Activity     
AI Security and API's 

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)

Where

East Lansing Technology Innovation Center
325 East Grand River Avenue
East Lansing 48823

Agenda

Welcome and Introductions
Large Language Mischief	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.
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.
Break
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.
Meeting Wrap Up
Tour of the Innovation Center	Info about Innovation Center: https://innovationcenter.msu.edu/
Networking Happy Hour (Optional)	We are headed to "The Jolly Pumpkin" post meeting for some networking time.