Five Things to Think About in Cyber, Vendor and AI Risk

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Five Things to Think About in Cyber, Vendor and AI Risk

A Four-Part Webinar Series from NxNW Technologies and Cruxial Technology Group

Technology risk is no longer confined to the IT department. Cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, third-party relationships, and vendor decisions now affect operations, finance, compliance, reputation, and executive accountability.

This four-part webinar series will help business and technology leaders establish a common language for risk, make more informed decisions, and improve oversight across the organization.

What You’ll Learn

Across four focused sessions, we’ll explore how organizations can:

  • Establish a common language for technology and business risk
  • Make more informed decisions about cyber, AI, and third-party exposure
  • Reduce organizational risk without slowing the business
  • Create guardrails for the responsible use of AI
  • Improve oversight of vendors and strategic partners

Register Once for the Entire Series

Your registration includes access to all four live sessions. After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a calendar download containing the full series schedule and Teams access details.

  • July 30th, 2026
  • August 27th, 2026
  • September 24th, 2026
  • October 29th, 2026

Five Things Every Executive Should Know Before Managing Cyber, Vendor, and AI Risk

Your registration includes access to all four live sessions. After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a calendar download containing the full series schedule and Teams access details.
 
All episodes will be held from 11:30 - 12:30 PDT.   
Cybersecurity risk, vendor risk, and AI risk are no longer separate conversations. They overlap constantly. A vendor may introduce an AI feature. An employee may use an unapproved AI tool with sensitive company data. A business process may depend on a third party that nobody has formally reviewed. A technical vulnerability may become a business continuity issue.
 
Before we talk about the individual topics, we need to establish a common foundation.

This is one of the most underestimated areas of cybersecurity and operational risk. Most organizations depend heavily on third parties: cloud providers, SaaS platforms, payroll processors, MSPs, billing systems, data processors, consultants, AI providers, and software vendors. The risk is simple: your organization may be accountable for outcomes that depend on systems and people you do not directly control.

The mistake many organizations make is treating risk management as a spreadsheet, an audit requirement, or an annual exercise. That misses the point. A useful risk management program helps leadership prioritize limited resources, understand exposure, and make better decisions under uncertainty. Here are five things you should know about risk management.

AI is moving quickly and just saying "no" is a significant risk in itself. Employees are using it. Vendors are embedding it. Software platforms are adding it. Executives are asking about productivity, competitive advantage, and risk. The mistake is treating AI as either pure innovation or pure threat. It is both an opportunity and a risk. Here are five things you should know about AI governance.

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Founding Partner - NxNW Technologies

Joel Robnet

Joel has spent 20+ years in technology, and close to the last 10 focused around cybersecurity — first on the vendor side with companies like Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, and Sysdig, then leading go-to-market for managed security services at an IT consultancy — before co-founding NxNW Technologies. That combination gives him a working view of both how security and cloud tools get sold and how they actually get implemented, supported, and managed once the contract is signed. Today he helps IT leaders and teams cut through vendor and technology noise to make clear, confident decisions on cybersecurity, cloud, and AI risk

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CISO | Entrepreneur | Veteran

Steve Sims

Steve is an AF veteran and cybersecurity guy with more than 20 years of technical and non-technical roles. He is a Certified Information System Security Professional or CISSP and an Advisory Committee member for the CompTIA SME program, writing certification exams for Security+, CySA+, and CASP+. Steve started an MSSP in 2017 called Cascade Defense and sold that to a large inorganic growth company, 11:11 Systems, in 2021. He now runs Cruxial Technology Group and focuses on helping small and medium businesses tackle security and compliance through Fractional CISO executive advisory services.