Erik Saller

  • Manager | Risk Consulting
  • Ernst & Young

Cybersecurity expert with over 20 years of professional experience, currently working as a Manager at Ernst & Young. He is passionate about advancing cybersecurity practices and specializes in both offensive and defensive disciplines, including security audits, testing, secure architecture design and review, risk assessment, and implementation of information security management frameworks.

Erik’s primary focus is offensive cybersecurity, with extensive experience in penetration testing, red teaming, and adversary simulation across IT, OT, and IoT environments. He has a strong interest in ICS/SCADA exploitation, hardware security, AI attack surface evaluation, and vulnerability research. He regularly leads advanced security testing engagements.

He holds multiple internationally recognized certifications, including CISA, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, OPST and PRINCE2. Erik is also an experienced trainer and advisor, for both technical teams and executive stakeholders.

Sessions

  • Panel discussion (SK)

  • AI vs AI (SK)

    Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming a decisive force on both sides of the cybersecurity battlefield. Attackers are weaponizing AI to automate reconnaissance, craft convincing phishing campaigns, bypass defenses, and even generate malicious code. At the same time, defenders are leveraging AI to detect anomalies, predict threats, automate incident response, and strengthen resilience at a scale and speed beyond human capacity.
    This presentation explores the emerging dynamic where machine battles machine. We will examine current and near-future attacker tactics enhanced by generative AI and machine learning, and contrast them with the defensive capabilities that security teams are deploying in response. Key topics will include AI-driven social engineering, adversarial attacks on models, automated vulnerability discovery, and the use of AI for threat detection, deception, and adaptive defense.
    Participants will gain insights into the opportunities and risks of AI in cybersecurity, understand how adversaries are innovating with these technologies, and discover practical strategies for defenders to stay ahead in an arms race increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence.