Hypervisor Blind Spots: Compliance, Liability, and Financial Sector Risk

About Event

Hypervisors have long been overlooked in compliance frameworks and audit processes, leaving a critical gap in financial institutions’ risk posture. Beginning with MITRE ATT&CK v17 elevating virtualization-layer techniques and auditors beginning to scrutinize this gap, recent attacks by groups like Scattered Spider have raised the stakes—including personal liability for CISOs. This session breaks down regulatory expectations, reporting obligations, and emerging accountability risks, giving attendees practical steps to close compliance gaps and strengthen governance to avoid costly breaches and legal exposure.

Speaker

Austin Gadient

Austin Gadient is a cofounder of Vali Cyber and serves as the company’s CTO. Austin is the primary author of Vali Cyber’s ZeroLock® platform, the world’s first hypervisor ransomware protection that combines portability, performance, and efficacy into one easy-to-use system. Prior to starting Vali Cyber, Austin was an officer in the United States Air Force and developed secure software architectures for America's satellite infrastructure. Austin holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he completed a thesis on a novel automatic exploit generation system called RAGE, as well as a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy where he was a captain of the Academy's competitive hacking team and the number one engineering graduate from the class of 2018.

Event Partners

Vali Cyber^® secures where attacks have the most impact: mission critical systems. While most defenses focus on endpoints, Vali Cyber identified Linux and hypervisors as critical yet under protected. Built for this reality, ZeroLock^®delivers preemptive security with CLI-MFA, exploit prevention, deep hypervisor visibility, and AI-driven behavioral detection. By operating at the hypervisor layer, ZeroLock stops threats in real time without performance impact or added overhead. If incidents occur, automated rollback restores workloads in seconds, ensuring uptime. Recognized by Gartner as a Key Startup in Security Software, Vali Cyber leads by protecting the foundation of modern infrastructure others overlook.