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Business Wire
31-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Media Alert: DeepTempo at Black Hat USA 2025, DEF CON 33, and BSides Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- DeepTempo, a pioneer in behavioral threat detection powered by deep learning, will be on the ground at Black Hat USA 2025, DEF CON 33, and BSides Las Vegas. As the cybersecurity landscape evolves with polymorphic and AI-powered threats, DeepTempo's presence will focus on empowering defenders through community, collaboration, and context-rich detection. Join DeepTempo experts for panel discussions and talks starting August 4. Where to Find DeepTempo: Black Hat USA 2025 – Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas Outsiders & Outliers: Security's Superpower Hosted by Polaris Collective, Blue Cycle, and Code Red, Outsiders & Outliers is a curated evening event exploring how underground communities are influencing the future of cybersecurity. Evan Powell, Founder and CEO of DeepTempo, will join the panel 'AI Forging the Shield vs. Sharpening the Sword' to discuss how agentic AI and behavior-based detection are reframing cyber defense in 2025. Additional sessions include a fireside chat on 'The New Face of Vulnerability Management in the Agentic AI Era' and the panel 'AnarchoSec: Bleeding-Edge Innovation from the Margins to the Mainstream.' When: Monday, August 4, 5:00-10:00 PM PDT Where: Punk Rock Museum 1422 Western Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89102 Registration: Code Fast, Fall Hard, Recover Faster: The Security Promise & Pitfalls of Open-Source Acceleration Open source remains one of cybersecurity's greatest enablers. Transparency, collaboration, and peer-reviewed code are core to resilient digital infrastructure. But as development velocity increases, so do risks around complexity, dependency sprawl, and misunderstood trust boundaries. This session explores how CISOs can embrace the power of open source while managing its nuanced security trade-offs, ensuring that speed and openness don't come at the cost of resilience. Speaker: Julie Tsai, Advisor at DeepTempo, Bay Area CSO Council Board Member, Limited Partner at Rain Capital and One Way Ventures, and Founding Member of Professional Association of CISOs When: Wednesday, August 6, 12:05-12:25 PM PDT Where: The AI Stage, Business Hall Registration: Staying Ahead of AI Regulations: What Security Teams Need to Know As AI regulations move at pace around the world, security teams face mounting challenges as they try to balance breakthrough innovation with rock-solid compliance. This discussion will unravel the evolving global rulebook and show how to translate key requirements into your real-world AI pipelines while highlighting retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Attendees will walk away with an AI-powered governance framework that keeps you one step ahead of regulators. Speaker: Brennan Lodge, Fractional CISO at DeepTempo, Founder of Blodgic, and Director of Information Security at Manhattan Institute When: Wednesday, August 6, 4:25-4:45 PM PDT Where: The AI Stage, Business Hall Registration: DEF CON 33 – Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas Blue Team Village – DeepTempo is a proud sponsor! Find DeepTempo at the BTV, where the team will be supporting detection engineers, SOC defenders, and all blue teamers with real-time threat demos and sneak peeks at how our LogLMs are catching what others miss. Keep an eye out for our t-shirts and come talk shop with our engineering team. When: Saturday, August 9-Monday, August 11 Where: West Hall, 2nd Floor Registration: BSides Las Vegas – The Tuscany, Las Vegas RAG Against the Machine: Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation and MCP to Fortify Cybersecurity Defenses As threat actors evolve faster than our security tools, defenders need a new playbook, one that blends explainable AI with real-world cyber context. Enter CADDIE: a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine driven by the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to supercharge SOCs, auditors, and compliance teams. This session will unpack how to use RAG + MCP to inject real-time policy, threat intel, and log data into large language models, enabling automation for tasks like gap analysis, alert triage, and regulatory mapping. Attendees will walk away understanding how to wield GenAI as a precise, compliant tool, not a hallucinating risk vector. Speaker: Brennan Lodge, Fractional CISO at DeepTempo, Founder of Blodgic, and Director of Information Security at Manhattan Institute When: Tuesday, August 5, 3:00 PM PDT Where: Ground Truth Registration: About DeepTempo DeepTempo offers deep-learning-based cybersecurity solutions that safeguard enterprises and service providers against cyberattacks. Leveraging its foundation LogLMs, the company's cybersecurity solutions are on the Snowflake Native App Marketplace and also available for deployment in on-premise security data lakes, helping organizations optimize security spending and enhance operational efficiency while maintaining robust threat protection without lock-ins. To find out more, go to or check out the company's LinkedIn page, YouTube channel, and Medium posts.
South Wales Argus
05-07-2025
- South Wales Argus
Newport student broke into Swansea home and masturbated
Ex-Swansea University student Evan Powell, from Rogerstone, 'prowled the streets looking for opportunities for non-consensual sexual activity' in the early hours of October 31 last year after a night out. Swansea Crown Court heard Powell entered or attempted to enter four houses in the Brynmill area of the city. Inside one of the homes, a woman woke up to find Powell masturbating just feet from her bed. In a statement read out by prosecutor Dyfed Thomas, she said: 'It has had a massive impact on my family,' she said. 'It has made me nervous at night. 'I have had trouble sleeping. 'Our home should be a safe place.' Powell denied the offences, and claimed he was looking for people and a lost mobile phone – which the judge later dismissed as 'ludicrous'. Following a trial, the jury found Powell guilty on May 1 of three offences of trespassing with intent to commit a sexual offence and one charge of attempted trespassing. He was found not guilty of battery. Evan Powell prowled the streets of Swansea after a night out. (Image: South Wales Police) The court heard Powell, now 21, of Lobelia Close, had no previous convictions, however he did have two community resolution cautions for sexual assault and a public order offence from October 2023. Referring to the sexual assault, Mr Thomas said Powell had 'grabbed' a woman's arm in the early hours in Swansea after going out drinking on Wind Street, before then groping her bottom and thigh. The court was told that when Powell was asked about his previous offences, he said words to the effect of that it was 'no big deal' and that 'everyone gets groped sexually on student nights out'. Powell's defence counsel recognised the concerns the court had with the defendant's failure to accept the seriousness of his offending. He said it would be 'surprising', given the account Powell gave to the police and at trial, if he now acknowledged this. 'He comes from a loving and caring background and to acknowledge the behaviour he has been found guilty of would be a matter of shame and embarrassment for him,' he said. He added that Powell was 20 at the time, and asked the court to consider his 'immaturity'. 'He is no longer at Swansea University,' he said. 'Your conduct that night, entering or trying to enter four separate houses, was sexually motivated,' said Judge Paul Thomas KC. 'It was behaviour of an extremely sinister nature. 'You prowled the streets looking for opportunities for non-consensual sexual activity. 'Throughout this, you have demonstrated not one iota of remorse.' Judge Thomas sentenced Powell to an extended nine-year sentence, made up of five years imprisonment and an additional four years extended licence. He must register as a sex offender for life, and was hit with a 10-year restraining order.
BBC News
03-07-2025
- BBC News
Swansea man jailed for entering bedrooms of sleeping women
A 21-year-old student who broke into the homes of three women while they were asleep has been jailed. Evan Powell entered the properties in the Brynmill area, Swansea during the early hours of 31 October Paul Thomas KC said he showed no remorse and described his behaviour as "of an extremely sinister nature".At Swansea Crown Court on Thursday, Powell was sentenced to five years in prison and four years on extended license. Warning: This article contains upsetting details In May, after denying the charges, Powell was found guilty of three counts of trespassing with intent to commit a sexual offence, and one count of attempting to do so. During the trial, the court heard that one woman woke at about 05:00 BST to find Powell, a stranger to her, standing in her bedroom. She later discovered he had also entered her child's room and rummaged through an hour later, Powell entered a second nearby property. The woman sleeping there woke to find him standing over her, masturbating with his genitals exposed. He was chased from the house and police were a former Swansea University student, then entered a third property, waking the resident by opening their bedroom door before also attempted to enter a fourth property but was unsuccessful. In a victim impact statement, one of the women said the incident had a "massive impact" on her added her son, who has ADHD and autism "woke to see a unknown strange man in the bedroom"."It's had a massive impact on his daily routine," she said. "He has had trouble with sleeping for month." Judge Paul Thomas KC described Powell's actions as "opportunistic but nevertheless persistent," adding: "You prowled the streets of the student area looking for opportunities of non-consensual sexual activity."You carried on even when people discovered you in their property."He dismissed Powell's defence - that he was searching for unnamed individuals and a lost mobile phone - as "ludicrous"."You have no insight into your problem, and you do not acknowledge that you have one," the judge told him. Mr Avirup Chaudhuri, defending Mr Powell, told the court how the defendant had some "issues" growing up despite coming from a "loving and caring background" and was away from his family at the time of the offences. The court heard that Powell had no previous convictions, but police issued him with two community resolutions in October 2023, after he attacked two young women - one sexually and the other non-sexually - on Wine Street, Thomas KC said that it's of "greatest regret that you were not properly dealt with at that time through the courts". Carolina Mayorga-Williams from the Crown Prosecution Service said it takes all allegations of sexual offending "very seriously"."Waking up to find a stranger in your or your child's bedroom must be a terrifying experience and violates a person's right to feel safe in their own home," she added. Powell will serve two-thirds of his five-year prison term in custody before becoming eligible for release. Judge Thomas also ordered Powell to sign the sex offenders register for life.
Wales Online
03-07-2025
- Wales Online
He crept into women's bedrooms at night as they slept and carried out a sex act
He crept into women's bedrooms at night as they slept and carried out a sex act One woman woke to find Evan Powell performing a sex act on himself Evan Powell (Image: South Wales Police ) A man crept into women's houses in the dead of night and entered their bedrooms to watch them sleeping, a court has heard. On one occasion Evan Powell pleasured himself while staring at one of his dozing victims. When arrested the defendant claimed he had been going into houses looking for someone who might have the mobile phone he had lost during a student night out on Swansea's Wind Street. He denied there was any sexual element to what he had done. A jury rejected that version of events and found him guilty of trespassing with intent to commit a sexual offence. Making the defendant the subject of an extended sentence the judge at Swansea Crown Court said on the night in question Powell had been "prowling the streets" looking for "opportunities for non-consensual activity" and he described Powell's behaviour as "extremely sinister". The court has previously heard that on the night of October 30 last year Swansea University computer science student Powell attended a fancy dress Cocktail Society house party on Brynmill Crescent in the Brynmill area of Swansea before going on to the bars of Wind street in the city centre. He was dressed in a black suit and tie in the style of the lead characters in the film "Men in Black". In the early hours of the following morning the defendant left the city centre and returned to the Brynmill area where he entered three houses, and tried to enter a fourth For the latest court reports sign up to our crime newsletter In one property the student first went into a child's bedroom and rummaged through a chest of drawers - the child woke to see the stranger in his room - before entering the mother's bedroom. The court heard the women woke suddenly to see the 21-year-old standing near her bed watching her. Powell fled down the stairs and left the house. Article continues below At a property nearby Powell again entered a woman's bedroom - this time he exposed his penis and masturbated while watching his sleeping victim. The woman woke and challenged the defendant who fled into the kitchen where an altercation took place during which the woman punched him and he pushed her. The defendant then left. The court heard Powell also entered a third property, though on that occasion the sleeping occupant was woken by the sound of the bedroom door opening. The defendant ran off and went home to his shared student house.. The incidents were reported to police and Powell was identified and subsequently arrested. Enquiries conducted by the police established that the defendant had tried to enter a fourth Brynmill property on the night in question but had been unsuccessful. Powell subsequently pleaded not guilty and the matter went to trial in April this year. Following his conviction, sentencing was adjourned for the preparation of a report to consider the issue of dangerousness. At the trial prosecution barrister Dyfed Thomas had put it to Powell that he had been "looking for sexual satisfaction from watching women sleeping in bed" but the defendant rejected that. Powell accepted it was a "very odd, unusual situation" but insisted he had been trying to find the property where the earlier house party had been held in the hopes someone there might know where his lost phone was. He added: "I'm very, very bad with directions". Evan Powell, now of Lobelia Close, Rogerstone, Newport, had previously been convicted at trial of three offence of trespassing with intent to commit a sexual offence and one count of attempting to trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence when he returned to the dock for sentencing. He has no previous convictions but the court heard that in October 2023 the defendant sexually assaulted a young woman in the Brynmill area in the early hours of the morning when he followed her along Bryn Road before grabbing her and putting his hands between her legs. The assault was reported to police but the defendant was not prosecuted and was dealt with by way of a "community resolution" which saw him admit the offence and write a letter of apology. Judge Paul Thomas KC had previously expressed his concern at the 2023 offending being dealt with by a community resolution, and the prosecution barrister told the court he had made enquiries into the matter and it seemed the officer who investigated the incident had not referred it to an officer of detective inspector rank or above as he should have done before making the decision. The prosecutor said the officer had been spoken to. Avirup Chaudhuri, for Powell, said the defendant came from loving and caring background. He said his client understands the gravity of the situation he was facing and asked the court to consider that it may be the "shame and embarrassment" Powell feels which prevents him from "confronting his offending in full". The barrister also asked the court to take into account the defendant's age and immaturity, and he said his client but been putting his "privileged education" to good use while on remand in prison by helping fellow inmates to improve their literacy skills. Judge Paul Thomas KC said on the night in question Powell had been "prowling the streets of the student area looking for opportunities for non-consensual activity". He said the defendant's motivation in entering or trying to enter four properties in the space of around two hours had been sexual, and he described Powell's behaviour as "extremely sinister". The judge said Powell had no insight into his problem and did not even acknowledge he had a problem, and he said until the defendant did come to terms with the reality of the situation he would continue to pose a high risk of sexual offending in the future. Powell was given a nine-year extended sentence comprising five years in custody followed by a four-year licence period. He will become eligible for parole after serving two-thirds of the custodial element of the sentence. The defendant will be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life. Article continues below Judge Thomas added that it was a matter of "great regret" that the 2023 sexual offending had not been dealt with "properly" at the time as it should have been. Speaking after the sentencing Carolina Mayorga-Williams, senior crown prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution service's rape and serious sexual offence team, said: "Waking up to find a stranger in your or your child's bedroom must be a terrifying experience and violates a person's right to feel safe in their own home. We take all allegations of sexual offending very seriously. The evidence presented by the Crown Prosecution Service resulted in the jury reaching their guilty verdicts and has brought Powell to justice."
Associated Press
12-02-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
DeepTempo Completes BNY Ascent Program to Advance AI-Driven Cybersecurity Innovation
DeepTempo announced today that it has completed the BNY Ascent Program. As part of the program, DeepTempo worked with BNY on evaluating through a proof-of-concept (POC) deployment its LogLM-based software for cybersecurity incident identification. The Ascent program seeks out exceptional early-stage companies worldwide to create new capabilities for BNY and its clients by collaborating on solutions and conducting a POC. 'By engaging with cutting-edge companies such as DeepTempo, we have earlier insight to solutions that address challenges and convey competitive advantages,' said Joseph Sieczkowski, CIO, Architecture and Engineering at BNY. 'The Ascent program streamlines our engagement, creating a collaborative experience benefiting both start-ups and BNY. Our collaboration with DeepTempo highlights our commitment to infrastructure investment, our culture of innovation, and our dedication to testing solutions at the forefront of technology.' 'Our Tempo software sees attacks that other solutions miss while offering significant cost savings versus aging rules and ML-based software,' said Evan Powell, CEO and founder of DeepTempo. 'We would like to thank our extended team at BNY. Together, we are building towards collective defense via deep learning and solidifying the foundations of cybersecurity.' About the BNY Ascent Program The BNY Ascent Program was established to facilitate innovation and collaboration with the fintech ecosystem and its emerging leaders. The Program offers a streamlined approach for testing and validating new technologies and their use cases. With a proof-of-concept based approach, participants focus on real business problems with the objective of addressing the evolving needs of BNY's clients. Underpinned by the spirit of entrepreneurship, founders and their teams benefit from opportunities to inform their product roadmaps and better scale their businesses with insights from BNY leadership, top venture capitalists, and exposure to BNY's larger ecosystem. The Ascent program is focused on providing exceptional leadership to the technology and financial ecosystem and supporting companies founded by diverse entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit DeepTempo builds deep-learning-based cybersecurity solutions that protect enterprises and service providers from cyber attacks. Leveraging its foundation LogLMs, DeepTempo delivers unparalleled accuracy and adaptability, enabling best-of-class threat detection with minimal customization. The company's cybersecurity solutions are available on the Snowflake NativeApp Marketplace, empowering organizations to avoid lock-in, optimize security spending and enhance operational efficiency while maintaining robust protection against cyber risks. To find out more, go to or check out the company's LinkedIn page, YouTube channel, and Medium posts . Silicon Valley PR SOURCE: DeepTempo Copyright Business Wire 2025. PUB: 02/12/2025 08:05 AM/DISC: 02/12/2025 08:06 AM
