June 25, 2026
Craig Bowman, Senior Vice President at Trellix, discussed Trellix’s project to secure Ukraine’s cyber environment against nation-state attacks, highlighting the rapid evolution of attack vectors from Ukraine to the U.S.
He emphasized the importance of AI in cybersecurity, noting Trellix’s use of AI to autonomously mitigate attacks, as seen during the 2025 cyber espionage campaign.
Bowman also explained Trellix’s detonation chamber technology, which isolates and analyzes threats without affecting live data, and its Agentic AI, which operates on-premises without data movement to provide real-time cybersecurity insights.
Ukraine has become the world’s most concentrated cyber battlefield, giving security teams unprecedented visibility into emerging attack techniques.
In this interview, Trellix’s Craig Bowman revealed that attack patterns once took six months to reach the U.S. after appearing in Ukraine—today, that gap can be as short as six seconds —highlighting why AI-powered cyber defense is becoming essential for federal agencies.
In this interview, Trellix’s Craig Bowman revealed that attack patterns once took six months to reach the U.S. after appearing in Ukraine—today, that gap can be as short as six seconds —highlighting why AI-powered cyber defense is becoming essential for federal agencies.
It is essential because a human simply cannot fight an autonomous machine by clicking through alerts. It is time to use AI to fight AI.
"Customers are not buying the UI. They're buying the data and how AI is going to make sense of that data in real time. That is the future of cyber."
Ukraine has become the world’s most concentrated cyber battlefield, giving security teams unprecedented visibility into emerging attack techniques. In this interview, Trellix’s Craig Bowman revealed that attack patterns once took six months to reach the U.S. after appearing in Ukraine—today, that gap can be as short as six seconds —highlighting why AI-powered cyber defense is becoming essential for federal agencies.
It is essential because a human simply cannot fight an autonomous machine by clicking through alerts. It is time to use AI to fight AI.
