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
09:30 AM - 10:15 AM IST
Gartner Opening Keynote: Seize the Initiative
Fadeen Davis,
Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
What if the chaos of cybersecurity could fuel a learning cycle that makes us smarter, stronger and faster? What if we could build smarter and stronger prevention by understanding how the most successful attackers are using AI? Or, what if we could increase the speed and intelligence of our resilience to the point that it becomes deterrence? What if our ability to weaponize learnings could translate into less drudgery and more engaging work? Join this keynote and learn how to seize the initiative!
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM IST
Contract Negotiation Clinic for Cybersecurity Leaders
DD Mishra,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Cybersecurity leaders are increasingly responsible for negotiating security services and subscriptions for their function or are called on by procurement and business leaders to opine over security-specific clauses in business-critical agreements. This session will cover top regulatory and legal trends in negotiating agreements, their impacts on key security provisions in agreements, contracting secrets, key terms to negotiate and more.
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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
Outlook for AI & Cybersecurity
Craig Porter,
Director Analyst, Gartner
Predicting AI's impact on cybersecurity remains fluid, with some threats accelerating and others failing to materialize with the strength and impact we'd expected. In this session, we'll look at offensive and defensive use cases for generative AI spanning three-time horizons — near, far and uncertain and ambiguous. We'll share where we have consensus and where we're still debating, what is interesting and has caught our eye, as well as the dark cases we're eyeing on.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Use Security Reference Architectures to Industrialize Security-by-Design
Richard Bartley,
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
Franz Hinner,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
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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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM IST
Ask the Expert: How to Evolve From Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management
Alex Tytarenko,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Its important to establish a strong foundation in vulnerability management but what do you do when you get there? This session will provide an opportunity to discuss some of the challenges you and your peers will overcome to build exposure management capabilities from incorporating attack surface to implementing exposure validation tools to improve visibility and prioritization of exposures.
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