"Building an Effective Red Team: Beyond Penetration Testing"

#1754633: "Building an Effective Red Team: Beyond Penetration Testing" - October 22, 2026

Description:	Learn how to establish and operate internal red teams that provide realistic adversary simulation beyond the limitations of traditional penetration testing. Attendees will explore red team methodologies, operational security, and organizational integration that maximize red team programs’ value and effectively test detection and response capabilities while providing actionable improvement recommendations. Speakers: Tom Parker, Independent Cybersecurity Expert Tom Parker is a cybersecurity veteran, entrepreneur and industry strategist with more than two decades of experience building companies, leading global security organizations and advising executives on emerging technologies, market opportunities and cyber risk. Tom co-founded FusionX, a pioneering offensive security company that was acquired by Accenture, where he went on to lead the multibillion-dollar growth strategy for Accenture Security. He later founded Hubble, a cyber asset and attack surface management company backed by Accel and Paladin Capital. Hubble received numerous industry accolades, including recognition as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, and was acquired by KKR-backed NetSPI in 2024, where Tom served as Chief Technology Officer. A technologist and business operator, Tom has spent his career at the intersection of offensive security, enterprise risk, cybersecurity innovation and commercial opportunity. He is a published author whose work includes Cyber Adversary Characterization: Auditing the Hacker Mind and the popular Stealing the Network series. Tom is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world, including Black Hat Briefings. He also lectures at universities, contributes to community research initiatives and is regularly called upon to provide expert commentary by major media organizations, including BBC News, CNN, Reuters, Wired, Vanity Fair, The Register and Bloomberg Businessweek. Dr. Süleyman Özarslan, Co-founder and VP, Picus Security Dr. Suleyman Ozarslan is Co-founder of Picus Security, the pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation, and VP of Picus Labs, the company's research arm. With 20+ years of experience spanning offensive security, malware analysis, and security control validation, he leads the research behind Picus's annual Red Report and Blue Report, which analyze millions of real-world attack simulations and over a million malware samples to reveal how adversaries operate and how defenses actually perform. Before co-founding Picus, Dr. Ozarslan served as a cyber defense trainer for the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme and held an academic post in a cybersecurity graduate programme. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems, has published academic research and 200+ threat analysis articles, and founded Purple Academy, Picus's free, open-access cybersecurity training platform. His current work focuses on applying AI to security validation and advancing autonomous penetration testing.
More info:	https://dr-resources.darkreading.com/free/w_picu24/

Description:

Learn how to establish and operate internal red teams that provide realistic adversary simulation beyond the limitations of traditional penetration testing. Attendees will explore red team methodologies, operational security, and organizational integration that maximize red team programs’ value and effectively test detection and response capabilities while providing actionable improvement recommendations.

Speakers:
Tom Parker, Independent Cybersecurity Expert
Tom Parker is a cybersecurity veteran, entrepreneur and industry strategist with more than two decades of experience building companies, leading global security organizations and advising executives on emerging technologies, market opportunities and cyber risk.

Tom co-founded FusionX, a pioneering offensive security company that was acquired by Accenture, where he went on to lead the multibillion-dollar growth strategy for Accenture Security. He later founded Hubble, a cyber asset and attack surface management company backed by Accel and Paladin Capital. Hubble received numerous industry accolades, including recognition as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, and was acquired by KKR-backed NetSPI in 2024, where Tom served as Chief Technology Officer.

A technologist and business operator, Tom has spent his career at the intersection of offensive security, enterprise risk, cybersecurity innovation and commercial opportunity. He is a published author whose work includes Cyber Adversary Characterization: Auditing the Hacker Mind and the popular Stealing the Network series.

Tom is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world, including Black Hat Briefings. He also lectures at universities, contributes to community research initiatives and is regularly called upon to provide expert commentary by major media organizations, including BBC News, CNN, Reuters, Wired, Vanity Fair, The Register and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Dr. Süleyman Özarslan, Co-founder and VP, Picus Security
Dr. Suleyman Ozarslan is Co-founder of Picus Security, the pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation, and VP of Picus Labs, the company's research arm. With 20+ years of experience spanning offensive security, malware analysis, and security control validation, he leads the research behind Picus's annual Red Report and Blue Report, which analyze millions of real-world attack simulations and over a million malware samples to reveal how adversaries operate and how defenses actually perform.

Before co-founding Picus, Dr. Ozarslan served as a cyber defense trainer for the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme and held an academic post in a cybersecurity graduate programme. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems, has published academic research and 200+ threat analysis articles, and founded Purple Academy, Picus's free, open-access cybersecurity training platform. His current work focuses on applying AI to security validation and advancing autonomous penetration testing.

More info:

https://dr-resources.darkreading.com/free/w_picu24/

Date added	Sept. 21, 2026, noon
Source	Dark Reading
Subjects	PodCasts / Webcast / Webinar / eSummit / Virtual Event etc. Security Management/Strategic Security/ROI/ROSI - CISO and Higher Level Vulnerability Assessment / Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Scanning etc.
Venue	Oct. 22, 2026, midnight - Oct. 22, 2026, midnight