February 10th at 10am PT | 1pm ET
An open-source AI agent called OpenClaw (formerly known as Moltbot and Clawdbot) has gone viral, surpassing 150,000 GitHub stars in days, and is already being deployed on local machines with deep system access. Built for autonomous action, it holds massive potential for automation and personal productivity gains — but it also introduces a new, high-risk attack surface that security teams can’t ignore.
In this session, we’ll cover:
- What OpenClaw is, how it works, and why it matters for security teams
- Realistic attack scenarios, including direct and indirect prompt injection attacks
- How adversaries can exploit agentic behavior for data exfiltration, reconnaissance, lateral movement, and execution
- How CrowdStrike delivers visibility and guardrails capabilities for agentic security threats like OpenClaw
We’ll close with a live Q&A with our technical experts, who will explain what this means for your environment today.
Featured Speakers
Elia Zaitsev
Global CTO, CrowdStrike
Elia Zaitsev leads CrowdStrike technology vision and strategy, notably driving the company’s data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning and malware research functions. Zaitsev was promoted to CrowdStrike’s Global Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in 2023. He joined the Office of the CTO in 2020 after having led the Americas Sales Engineering organization. He joined CrowdStrike in 2013 as the company’s first sales engineer. Throughout his tenure, he has worked closely as a trusted advisor to CrowdStrike's largest customers while collaborating with the product and R&D teams to ensure continued customer success and safety through innovation and evolution of the Falcon platform. Prior to CrowdStrike, Zaitsev was at IBM, i2 Inc. and Northrop Grumman.
Joey Melo
AI Red Teaming Specialist, CrowdStrike
Joey Melo is an AI Red Teaming Specialist at CrowdStrike and a contributor to AI Safety programs at OpenAI and Anthropic. His AI red teaming expertise is globally recognized, having ranked 2nd among 30,000 competitors in the HackAPrompt 2.0 AI hacking challenge sponsored by OpenAI and ranking 1st place in Pangea’s global AI escape room challenge. Joey frequently presents on AI security topics at conferences like DEF CON and the AI Risk Summit and has had his research covered in major media publications. An OSCP, OSCE3, and BSCP certified penetration tester, Joey specializes in web security, exploit development, and reverse engineering, constantly honing his skills in high-pressure CTF environments.
John Gamble
Head of AI Detection and Response Marketing, CrowdStrike
John Gamble is the Head of AIDR Marketing at CrowdStrike and has spent more than fifteen years in the cybersecurity industry, including his most recent role as VP Marketing at Pangea, an AI security company acquired by CrowdStrike in 2025. Prior to that, he served as Head of Corporate Marketing at Corelight, a network detection and response company and before that as Director of Product Marketing at Lookout, a mobile endpoint security company.
