Tariffs, global instability, and AI threats are making CISOs’ jobs tougher. As we defend AI investments and fight AI-enabled attacks, sharing insights within the cybersecurity community is crucial. Together, we’re smarter and stronger.
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Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026 dives deep into key topics for cybersecurity leaders around AI, risk management, cloud security and more.
2026 Conference Theme
Smarter, Faster, Stronger … Together
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Monday, 09 March, 2026
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
CISO Edge: Focus on Risk Reduction, Not on Quantifying Cybersecurity’s Value
Wam Voster,
VP Analyst, Gartner
CISOs struggle to demonstrate the business value of cybersecurity investment in terms that resonate with business executives. The continuing search for an effective way of quantifying business value is a wild goose chase and an ineffective way of utilizing scarce cybersecurity resources. Rather, focus on maximizing the defined output with available resources and use qualitative narratives and limited, defensible metrics to communicate cybersecurity's value.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Use Security Reference Architectures to Industrialize Security-by-Design
Patrick Hevesi,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Security-by-design employs a set of best-practice principles early in the architecting process to help ensure security aims are met throughout design. This session explains how to use Gartner’s resources including its reference architecture library to meet security-by-design goals.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM IST
CISO Circle: Leadership Exchange: The Key Drivers of CISO Effectiveness
Alex Michaels,
Director Analyst, Gartner
Will Candrick,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The CISO role and expectations are evolving. CISO’s need to be effectively managing their priorities. Are you modeling the right behaviors? Building the right skills? Prioritizing time management? In this session, attendees will explore the latest findings from Gartner's CISO Effectiveness benchmarking that are most conducive to effectiveness in role.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM IST
Workshop: Developing a Ransomware Playbook for Incident Response
Ransomware, unlike other security events, puts your organization on a countdown timer. Delays in decision making and response can significantly increase the risk to the business. In addition to your incident-response plan, a specific ransomware playbook is needed. This workshop will provide you with the tools and techniques needed to create a playbook specific to your organization.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Technical Insights: Secure by Design: Engineering Secure Applications
Manjunath Bhat,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Secure by design is a security engineering approach that enables building software products that are foundationally secure and resilient. This session will review key tenets of the secure by design principle, such as threat modelling, secure by default and software supply chain security.
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12:30 PM - 01:15 PM IST
Ask the Expert: How to Secure the Cloud — Without Crippling Business Innovation
Richard Bartley,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Cloud adoption — SaaS, PaaS and IaaS — continues to grow in the vast majority of enterprises. This Ask the Expert session provides a forum to ask about how to make this adoption as secure as possible without crippling business innovation. You can ask your specific questions about cloud security approaches, techniques and technical controls.
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12:30 PM - 01:00 PM IST
Outlook for Human Factors in Cybersecurity
Will Candrick,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The vast majority of cybersecurity investment prioritizes technical solutions. Yet most cyber incidents involve human error. What many cybersecurity leaders miss is the human factor. People-ranging from the c-suite to line-level employees — have a massive impact on cyber risk outcomes. Learn how cybersecurity leaders can use human factors in security to their advantage!
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12:45 PM - 01:15 PM IST
5 Emerging Tactics for CISOs to Harness and Scale Generative AI Securely
Craig Porter,
Director Analyst, Gartner
Security leaders are challenged to provide solid governance to securely scale multiple use-cases generative AI provides for the business. Join this session to learn how to lead your organization's generative AI transformation confidently.
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