The buzz around Agentic AI – the latest form of AI systems designed to autonomously make decisions and act – is rampant. As security leaders grapple to understand the nuances of this next wave of AI excitement, there are many considerations to take into account to determine if, where and how to experiment and accelerate its use within your environment. In this symposium, IANS Faculty Jake Williams cuts through the noise and shares practical insights and recommendations to aid your understanding of the technology, its risks and guardrails for adoption within your enterprise.

10 strategies for CISOs to make Security Awareness Month 2025 programs impactful, moving beyond compliance to lasting behavior change.

The buzz around Agentic AI – the latest form of AI systems designed to autonomously make decisions and act – is rampant. As security leaders grapple to understand the nuances of this next wave of AI excitement, there are many considerations to take into account to determine if, where and how to experiment and accelerate its use within your environment. In this symposium, IANS Faculty cuts through the noise and shares practical insights and recommendations to aid your understanding of the technology, its risks and guardrails for adoption within your enterprise.

Ross Young has spent two decades at the forefront of cybersecurity, from CIA officer to enterprise CISO. He’s the co-host of CISO Tradecraft, creator of the OWASP Threat and Safeguard Matrix (TaSM), and a recognized leader who has served as CISO in Residence at Team8, CISO of Caterpillar Financial, instructor at Johns Hopkins University, and divisional CISO at Capital One. Ross also brings over a decade of frontline experience from the CIA, NSA, and the Federal Reserve Board.

Most organizations now grapple with explosive growth in privileged non-human identities (NHIs)—from OS-scoped service accounts and SaaS tokens to RPA bots and agentic AI. Recent incidents show attackers bypassing humans entirely by abusing OAuth and app-to-app integrations to siphon data and cloud keys, underscoring how NHI compromise fuels supply-chain style breaches. This session reframes NHI security around practical lifecycle management and hard-won field lessons. We’ll cut through hype on AI agents to the real work: securing emerging protocols like MCP, tightening SaaS-to-SaaS grants, and balancing priorities between the emerging and legacy pain that still drives risk. Attendees leave with actionable architectures, governance patterns and controls that reduce NHI blast radius in imperfect, real-world conditions.

CISOs are exploring how to use AI to modernize security operations centers from agentic AI for incident response to workflow automation—but they must ensure security without amplifying risk.

The CISO role continues to increase in visibility and influence in the business, due to a dramatic expansion in scope over the last few years. However, compensation growth for CISOs has not kept pace with the changes in both scope and impact. Macro conditions have slowed the market down and a general lack of job movement has contributed to relatively meager gains in CISO compensation through 2025 compared to prior years. In this webinar, IANS Faculty Steve Martano and Senior Research Director Nick Kakolowski will explore the findings of the IANS and Artico CISO Compensation and Budget Survey to discuss the broader CISO hiring market. While they'll focus on unpacking the data on CISO compensation and anecdotal market trends behind that data, they'll use that data as an entry point into a conversation designed to help CISOs think about their own standing in the business, providing insights and strategies to continue to enhance their brand and the brand of their program.

Our research shows CISOs are consolidating tools into platforms and leaning on MSSPs, with nearly 70% using platforms and 68% relying on MSSPs.