Hacker Hour Webinar Series
The Hacker Hour webinar series provides an interactive and engaging cybersecurity training experience - completely free of charge. We encourage attendees to actively participate in the conversation, ask questions, share ideas, and suggest topics. Additionally, we offer a range of products and services to help alleviate any stress or concerns related to specific cybersecurity issues your organization may be facing.
AI is showing up everywhere. The question isn’t whether you’ll use it. It’s how you’ll keep its cost, risk, and value under control. AI is becoming a line item you may not even know you have.
Copilot, assistants, agents, APIs, and AI-powered features are rapidly becoming part of the tools your organization already uses. But every prompt, workflow, and automated process has a cost, and simply telling employees to “use the approved AI” may not be a realistic strategy.
In this Hacker Hour, we’ll cut through the confusion around AI tokens, subscriptions, and usage costs and explore a more practical question: How do you give employees access to the right AI tools for the right jobs without creating runaway costs or unnecessary risk?
We’ll share real-world lessons from SBS’s own AI journey and discuss a practical framework for evaluating AI use cases based on business value, cost, security, and governance. You’ll leave with a smarter way to answer: Is this AI use case actually worth paying for?
HOST
Sheryl Ryan
Senior Information Security Consultant
SBS CyberSecurity
GUEST
Blake Schmiedt
Network Security Engineer
SBS CyberSecurity
Tim Cruickshank
IT Systems Manager
Farmers State Bank of Hamel, Minnesota
Judy Murdoch
Arize Federal Credit, Pennsylvania Union, Pennsylvania
Rochelle Bushman
Information Security Officer
Citizens Savings Bank, Iowa
Sheila Christiansen
Vice President, IT Manager, & Security Officer
BankVista, Minnesota