Safetech Innovation participated as Silver Partner at ZF Digital 2025
On November 14, Safetech Innovations participated as a Silver Partner at ZF Digital 2025, an event organized by Ziarul Financiar and dedicated to the theme “Romania in the AI era: agents of progress or risk?”. This year’s edition brought to the table business leaders and specialists from the AI, telecom and financial-banking sectors – decision-makers of organizations that are key players in the market, such as Orange, Vodafone, BRD, CEC Bank, eMAG, Motorola, Mastercard and Visa. Safetech Innovation participated in the event as a Partner, Ionuţ Georgescu, Director of Operations, being invited to the debate “Benefits and risks of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence.” It was an opportune moment to present the company’s vision on the challenges and priorities in the cybersecurity area, in the context of the evolution and accelerated adoption of AI technologies.
AI, between challenges and opportunities in cybersecurity
Ionuţ Georgescu stressed that one of the main benefits of AI technology is the ability to accelerate and simplify the innovation process and that Safetech’s research and development team has already aligned itself with this reality. “It is increasingly difficult, in the R&D process, to have people who have all the necessary tools and skills to turn ideas into reality. However, AI helps them become the architects of their own concepts: it provides them with tools that assist them, including in writing code, and helps them quickly assess whether an idea can be implemented,” explained Ionuț Georgescu.
The specialist also spoke about the negative impact of AI acceleration on cyber threats, as attackers adapt quickly, already using LLM-type models to refine their methods. At the same time, social engineering has become much more sophisticated. If, a few years ago, phishing could be identified by the user by certain clues, today the attacks are much more complex and personalized. The director of Safetech Innovations illustrated this phenomenon with a recent example: a person who posted on LinkedIn that he was going to attend an external conference later received an email apparently from an airline, requesting data on the grounds of a “problem” with the ticket, a message that contained a malicious link.
“Behind it there may be an AI agent that monitors public posts, connects the person, destination and the airline, generates and sends a credible message to obtain personal data. We expect these situations to become more and more frequent and complex. But security solutions are adapting: all the international vendors we work with integrate AI into their products in order to be able to identify the behavioral aspects specific to this type of attack, not just the classic signatures, which no longer bring added value.” , explained Ionuţ Georgescu.
NIS 2 and risks in the supply chain
Another topic addressed in the ZF Digital 2025 panel was the importance of the NIS 2 Directive, which makes operators of essential services responsible for the security of the supply chain. In this context, more and more companies are coming to Safetech requesting audits for critical suppliers, including customers who manage global networks with up to 1000 third parties. In parallel, Safetech customers are increasingly requesting security tests against AI operators. According to Ionut Georgescu, AI software providers will have to be treated as critical third parties, and comply with all customer security requirements and internal rules, given that a data breach can have serious consequences, including business closure. To prevent such incidents, companies are increasingly organizing simulations that test their response to security breaches or incidents with AI agents. The representative of Safetech Innovations added that it is essential to have clear rules about how AI agents are used, specifically: what level of access they are granted and how possible security issues can be quickly isolated, although, according to him, it will take some time before we have standardized solutions and clear answers to these challenges.
How will AI technologies help in the work of Safetech Innovations? “AI will help us optimize response time and effectively identify incidents. Attackers no longer spend much time in compromised infrastructure: they enter with AI, exfiltrate data, and demand ransom. Reducing the identification time helps us and all security companies to stop attacks and keep customer infrastructures more secure,” added Ionuț Georgescu at ZF Digital 2025.
Other topics addressed during the event organized by Ziarul Financiar were the situation of the telecom market in Romania and 5G networks, the local demand for AI solutions and their concrete use in business. We invite you to follow all the discussions at ZF Digital 2025 by following this link.