Adversaries are evolving — are your defenses keeping up?
Americas: Nov 19 at 11 a.m. PT | 2 p.m. ET
Organizations worldwide faced a surge of sophisticated cyber incidents this year. CrowdStrike's incident response (IR) team has been at the forefront, investigating and stopping these attacks while witnessing adversary tactics evolve firsthand.
Join our frontline experts as they reveal authentic stories and insights from this year's most significant incidents, including nation-state operations, ransomware campaigns, cloud intrusions, identity-based attacks, and more. This session will emphasize practical ways for security teams to strengthen detection, response, and resilience while considering how emerging threats and trends could shape priorities in 2026.
Key takeaways:
- Frontline stories from pivotal 2025 incidents
- Common weaknesses exploited by today's adversaries
- Actions to improve readiness and reduce risk
- Predictions for 2026 and how security teams can get ahead
Featured Speakers
Tim Parisi
Sr. Director, Professional Services, CrowdStrike
Tim Parisi is a Senior Director of the Incident Response practice in CrowdStrike Services. In addition to supporting clients during incidents, Tim leads the overall strategy of the IR practice to ensure CrowdStrike IR is the best to work with and work for. Prior to joining CrowdStrike, Tim performed incident response at Mandiant and federal government agencies.
Yinan Yang
Sr. Director, Incident Response, CrowdStrike
Yinan Yang is CrowdStrike's Americas Head of Incident Response Services and oversees the delivery of incident response and breach investigation services across U.S. and Canada. Together with his team, they have investigated some of the highest profile intrusions that ranged from Nation State to eCrime and ransomware attacks. He has over a decade of cybersecurity experience across all major commercial verticals specializing in areas of digital forensics and incident response, threat hunting, security operations and cyber threat intelligence integration. In addition to his operational and supervisory duties, Yinan also leads methodology development and executive engagement efforts for the practice.
Shelly Giesbrecht
Director, Incident Response, CrowdStrike
Shelly Giesbrecht is a Director of Incident Response ("IR") at CrowdStrike and the Practice Lead for Canada. She currently focuses on management and oversight of customer incidents, customer and partner relationship building, case management processes, and consultant development.
Prior to joining CrowdStrike, Shelly managed the customer-facing IR team at Cisco for three years, leading a team of consultants in both proactive and reactive engagements, and developing and maturing the practice. Before that, Shelly was a manager of IR at Deloitte Canada, and worked in private industry (energy and airline industries) doing IR and security operations for 11 years.
