K-12 security teams are being asked to defend more than ever with less than ever. Student and staff data, learning platforms, and district operations are high-value targets, yet most districts operate with a handful of IT staff and no dedicated analysts. Alert volume keeps climbing, attackers move faster, and the gap between “something looks off” and “we know what happened” is where incidents turn into disruptions.

This session shows how natively integrated AI and proactive threat hunting can close that gap without adding headcount. Using the SentinelOne Singularity Platform in a live demonstration, we will walk through the full investigation lifecycle: from an initial detection, to natural-language questions in Purple AI, to agentic investigation that assembles context and suggests next steps, to a hunt for related activity across the environment. Attendees will see how an analyst with limited query-language experience can ask plain-English questions and get actionable answers in minutes rather than hours.

We will also cover how threat hunting expertise, delivered through Wayfinder Essentials, extends the reach of a small team by proactively looking for adversary behavior that automated detections alone may miss. The session will focus on the operational value of integration: one platform, one data set, and one workflow, rather than stitching together separate tools while an incident is underway.

Attendees will learn:

- How natural language investigation and agentic AI reduce the skill and time barriers to effective triage, investigation, and response
- How proactive threat hunting complements automated detection and shortens attacker dwell time
- How native integration across detection, investigation, and hunting reduces tool sprawl and analyst fatigue

PRESENTER: Briana Lopez-Urteaga, SentinelOne

Cybersecurity Summit Session 5D

Cyber / Information Security

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