Emerging Applications of AI in Cybersecurity
Explore how AI is reshaping cybersecurity and supply chain resilience.
Join Dr. Robert Handfield as he discusses key insights from the forthcoming CAPS Research report, Emerging Applications of AI in Cybersecurity and Supply Network Stress Testing (2025).
In this session, discover how organizations are leveraging AI to address the growing sophistication of cyber threats and the vulnerabilities spreading across interconnected supply networks. Learn why traditional perimeter defenses are no longer enough and how integrated, AI-enabled resilience strategies are becoming essential.
Drawing on practitioner insights, federal–industry workshops, enterprise case studies, and survey data from CAPS Research and APQC, this webinar offers practical guidance for strengthening cybersecurity posture and ensuring supply chain continuity.
Key Topics:
- The Rising Tide of Cyber Threats – Understand how supply chain attacks reveal systemic vulnerabilities across global networks.
- AI in Cyber Defense – Explore how AI is being applied in threat detection, anomaly identification, vulnerability management, incident response, and Cyber SCRM Centers of Excellence.
- Generative AI and Risk – Examine how GenAI supports scenario planning, supplier risk assessments, disruption mapping, and stress testing.
- Governance and Metrics That Matter – Learn about outcome-based governance models, executive dashboards, and metrics that measure resilience and human factor vulnerabilities.
- The Human Element – Discover why 60% of breaches involve social engineering, and how targeted training and AI-assisted detection can reduce these risks.
- Contracting and Compliance Levers – Gain insights into implementing annual security addenda, SBOM requirements, and runtime telemetry to strengthen supplier accountability.
- Preparing for AI-Driven Threats – Understand how large language models (LLMs) and other AI tools can both enhance and challenge enterprise security, and what policies are needed to manage them effectively.
As AI becomes a defining force in both cyber offense and defense, aligning governance, data integrity, and workforce readiness is essential. This webinar will translate the latest CAPS Research findings into actionable steps to help your organization build stronger, more adaptive cybersecurity and supply chain systems.
Reserve your spot today and gain research-driven insights to navigate the evolving AI–cybersecurity landscape.
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Meet our presenter
Robert Handfield, Ph.D.
Executive Director of Supply Chain Resource Cooperative
Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management
North Carolina State University
Rob Handfield is the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University, and Executive Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative. Handfield is Editor-in-Chief of the online Logistics journal, Consulting Editor of the Journal of Operations Management, one of the leading supply chain management journals in the field, and the author of several books on supply chain management, including “FLOW: How the Best Supply Chains Thrive” (2022), “Supply Chain Immunity” (2023), “The LIVING Supply Chain: The Evolving Imperative of Operating in Real Time” (2017), and “Introduction to Supply Chain Management” (1999, 25,000 copies sold, and translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean).
His current research involves work on understanding how to restructure the public health response system, based on his pro bono work with the Joint Acquisition Task Force during the COVID pandemic in March – October, 2020. He has been supported by multiple grants exceeding $10M, including the United States Department of Agriculture to study market forecasts for bio-based products ($200,000), a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to create an Ethical Apparel Index ($1.2M over three years), a $500K grant to study the use of serious gaming in supply chain resilience wargames, and has received multiple NSF grants for studies in supply chain management.