One Guitar. One CISO. Your Questions.

4:15 pm
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5:00 pm
CT

Yonesy Núñez, CISO at Surf AI, is trading the war room for a stage — acoustic guitar in hand.

This isn't a panel. It isn't a keynote. It's a live jam session where cyber marketers get rare, unfiltered access to one of cybersecurity's most recognizable CISOs — one who also happens to play. Yonesy has spent years at the center of enterprise security, building a reputation that precedes him in every room he walks into. Now he's bringing that same presence to CyberMarketingCon, taking live questions from the audience, riffing on what marketers get right (and spectacularly wrong), and answering honestly about what actually influences a CISO's buying decisions, vendor relationships, and attention.

Part performance, part conversation, part something you haven't seen at a conference before.

Just follow the music.

Session Agenda

  • You'll leave knowing how to talk to the person your whole campaign is built around — straight from the source, with a soundtrack.

Speakers

Yonesy Núñez

CISO

Surf AI

Yonesy Núñez

CISO

Surf AI

Dr. Yonesy F. Núñez is a 6x Chief Information Security Officer, board director, and senior security executive at Surf AI, the agentic security platform closing the execution gap between detection and resolution.

Over more than two decades, Yonesy has built and scaled cybersecurity programs across financial services and critical infrastructure, including CISO and senior security leadership roles at DTCC, Jack Henry & Associates, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, The New School, and Pall Corporation. At DTCC, he served as both CISO and inaugural Chief Cybersecurity Risk Officer for an institution settling multi-quadrillion-dollar transaction volume. He has engaged directly with U.S. and global regulators including the SEC, Federal Reserve, OCC, FINRA, FCA, and Central Bank of Ireland, and has led security through M&A, consent order remediation, and enterprise modernization.

He serves as an Independent Board Director at Chain Bridge Bank, N.A. and Pentegra Retirement Services, and is a named inventor on four U.S. patents in fraud risk detection.

At Surf AI, Yonesy shapes how the world’s largest enterprises approach agentic security, from the boardroom to the analyst. He advises CISOs on where automation earns trust and where it breaks it, convenes security leaders through roundtables and industry forums, and carries the technical weight in the rooms where Surf’s own security posture is put under a microscope. He engages CISOs as a peer because he has been in the chair, and he knows why context matters more than model intelligence the moment agents start making decisions at machine speed.In a world of AI attackers, hygiene is your best defense.Context is the differentiator. Decisions are the product.

About this Session's Track

Product Marketing & Cybersecurity Perspective

Gain technical and market intelligence on positioning cybersecurity products, telling the right story, and translating complex technical capabilities into compelling customer value propositions.