Our 2025 CISO compensation report offers powerful salary benchmarking insights, supports budget justification, and reveals opportunities for talent development and AI-driven advancement.

Whether concerned with the increased risks of data exfiltration via AI or the growing infiltration of imposter North Korean remote workers, organizations are looking for ways to enhance protection of insider threat risks. This symposium provides specific, actionable recommendations whether you’re just standing up a program or looking to mature and modernize it. We’ll share strategies to improve your monitoring within Legacy Applications, M365, Azure, AWS and GCP environments, and recommend processes for cross-functional collaboration to identify key applications and data, establish baselines for day-to-day activity, detect anomalies and respond to risks.

Learn how to develop a framework for governing AI identities that details best practices and architectural patterns for managing their lifecycle and outlines a roadmap for implementation.

This report explains how to enable AI development teams to safely use production data and warns against the temptation to allow production data in all development environments.

The challenges and opportunities of compliance in the age of AI include AI’s capabilities, transparency, ethical concerns, and responsible data use.

Scott is the Vice President of Global Cybersecurity for an international firm in the aviation sector. His background spans 25 years, beginning with operations and engineering work at companies like Raytheon and Symantec. Scott has since held senior leadership positions, including Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), across three diverse industries: utilities, financial services, and technology. In addition to his current role, Scott serves as a board member at US VALOR. 

 

Specific agentic AI threat models have been developed to address the unique risks and challenges that exist due to the autonomy, continuous learning and interaction of agentic AI systems. In this virtual symposium, delve into how to threat model agentic AI applications, the differences between industry-leading threat models/frameworks and how to apply them to your environment.

Barry is a Principal Cybersecurity and Compliance Consultant and former Senior Leader at FERC. With nearly 30 years of cybersecurity experience, Barry has led national efforts in securing industrial control systems and manufacturing environments across government, military, and private sectors. He spearheaded the AURORA project, contributed to CIP Reliability Standards, and advised top U.S. officials on cyber threats. He played a pivotal role in shaping national cybersecurity strategy and regulatory oversight for energy infrastructure. His work focused on securing operational technology (OT) systems, ensuring compliance with critical infrastructure.

Looking ahead to 2026, we anticipate a year marked by continued ambiguity and change, where resource-constrained defenders battle well-enabled and resourced adversaries leveraging AI for their attacks. Concurrently, the CISO role continues to evolve, shifting from a technical guardian to a strategic business partner focused on influence, communication and value creation to navigate increasing risk, regulations and economic pressures on security budgets. In this webinar, IANS Faculty Aaron Turner and Steven John call out the areas they believe will be most impactful to CISOs and their teams in 2026. Hear an overview of the trends and recommendations of actionable steps to work into your roadmap.