CXO Xchange Welcomes Maria Haight, Halcyon & Sweet Security!
Maria Haight | Global Information Security Officer at Joyson Safety Systems
Maria Haight is an accomplished technology executive with extensive expertise in cybersecurity, IT transformation, talent development, and vendor management. She has held senior roles such as Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Currently, she is the Global Information Security Officer at Joyson Safety Systems.
Her strategic focus includes leading organizational change in cloud and digital initiatives, enterprise application integration, cybersecurity, data rationalization, automation, process improvement, and workforce optimization.
Her broad industry experience spans telecommunications (Nortel), consumer packaged goods (Kellogg), finance (KCCU & Zeal Credit Union), and print manufacturing (TGI Direct).
Additionally, she actively contributes to the community by serving on the boards of SIM Detroit and CIOs Against Cancer, reflecting her commitment to professional and social causes.
Cynthia Kaiser | SVP Ransomeware Research Center at Halcyon
Cynthia Kaiser is a seasoned cyber and national security executive with two decades of experience protecting the nation from complex threats across the globe. She previously served as Deputy Assistant Director of FBI’s Cyber Division, leading policy, intelligence, and partnerships to support victims and disrupt cyber adversaries. During her FBI tenure, she also served as a member of the Cyber Safety Review Board and as a daily intelligence briefer to senior White House officials in two administrations.
Today, Cynthia leads the Halcyon Ransomware Research Center, driving threat research and collaborating across sectors to outpace and defeat ransomware. Widely recognized as a leading cyber executive by organizations like The Cyber Guild, FedScoop, CyberScoop, WashingtonExec, and GovCIO, Cynthia is most proud of the teams she has built and the critical systems and communities their work helps protect.
Sohini Mukherjee | Solutions Architect at Sweet Security
Sohini Mukherjee is a solutions architect at Sweet Security, where she focuses on the intersection of eBPF-based runtime protection and Layer 7 visibility. A Georgia Tech graduate with a degree in biomedical engineering, Sohini traded physiological systems for cloud ecosystems, spending time at IBM and Palo Alto Networks before joining the "Sweet" side of CNAPP. When not dissecting kernel probes, she can be found traveling the globe, diving into a good book, or mastering Pilates.
Abstract:
Traditional Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) is great at telling you where your data is sitting, but it's often blind to how that data is moving. This talk explores how eBPF sensors can extract Layer 7 insights to monitor data in motion — and why that capability becomes uniquely powerful when securing AI workloads and agents in the cloud. We'll dive into how real-time visibility into application-layer traffic builds a live "storyline" of what your AI systems are actually doing: which models are being called, what data is flowing in and out of inference endpoints, and how agents are communicating across services. That runtime context is what lets security teams detect anomalous behavior, unauthorized data access, and suspicious lateral movement before a snapshot-based tool ever sees it.