How retail security leaders in consumer-facing organizations can adjust their posture, priorities, and operating model for the year ahead.

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.

Security leaders and teams are playing a large role in governing the use of AI within their enterprises. However, many orgs are still challenged with how to operationalize the governance approaches they know are necessary. In this session, IANS Faculty Summer Fowler provides practical, actionable recommendations to help ensure your AI governance strategies provide proper oversight, risk review and mitigation to enable the business to pursue responsible AI adoption.

Learn how incident response tabletop exercises help organizations uncover gaps, improve readiness, and prepare teams for real-life cyber incidents.

AI-powered cyberattacks are increasing in scale—not sophistication. Learn what’s real, what’s hype, and how security leaders should respond.

The 2026 State of the CISO research surveyed over 600 security leaders and found a striking paradox: CISOs are gaining executive status while simultaneously losing ground on scope manageability.

Increased AI use – both internally and in customer-facing settings – is having troubling human consequences. The conversational traits of LLMs can lead to emotional bonding, sycophancy, anthropomorphism and perceived authority. This creates human risk factors. Employees can become overly dependent on AI answers and inadvertently manipulated into insider threats. Customers can be exposed to inappropriate content or, in extreme cases, convinced to harm themselves and others.

CISOs and security leaders can elevate their impact by linking cybersecurity initiatives directly to the company’s mission, vision, and values.

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.

Discover how quarterly tabletop exercises strengthen organizational resilience and cyber preparedness.