Explore the tracks that were covered at last year’s conference, informed by key cybersecurity and risk challenges and emerging trends.
Explore this year’s sessions
Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2025 dove deep into key topics for cybersecurity leaders around AI, risk management, cloud security and more.
Conference Tracks at a Glance
Cybersecurity Leadership
Cybersecurity leaders face many disruptions: technological, geopolitical, organizational and human. Learn how to improve your effectiveness as a leader, communicate the value of cybersecurity, govern AI, optimize costs and help your organization to be more resilient.
Artificial Intelligence
AI’s rapid evolution presents many cybersecurity risks and opportunities. Learn how to effectively integrate AI into your cybersecurity roadmap, govern AI for your organization and navigate the AI hype to create real value.
Cyber-Risk Management
You might think risk has been overhyped, but don’t wait for it to materialize. Sessions on this topic covered risks relevant to privacy, supply chains and cybersecurity. Learn how to communicate value, correlate risk data to automate control monitoring and enable decision making.
Look back at 2025 Conference Sessions
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Monday, 07 April, 2025
09:30 AM - 10:15 AM GST
Welcome Address and Gartner Opening Keynote: Harness the Hype: Turning Disruption Into Cybersecurity Opportunity
Christopher Mixter,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Patrick Hevesi,
VP Analyst, Gartner
H.E Dr Mohamed Al Kuwaiti,
Head of Cyber Security, United Arab Emirates Government
Join us for a Welcome Address by H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti - Head of Cyber Security for the UAE Government. Our organizations have grand ambitions and know they can’t ignore cybersecurity. But in our fast-paced environment, we are endangered by the extremes of unbridled technology optimism and excessive preoccupation with risk. Hype, whether driven by AI, emerging technologies or the latest headline-grabbing cyber attack, threatens to derail strategic objectives and the partnership between cybersecurity and the rest of the business. This keynote will help cybersecurity leaders exploit the power of hype to drive an innovative and adaptive cybersecurity program.
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10:30 AM - 10:50 AM GST
CyberKnight: Bridging Security & Observability — Unlocking the Power of Network Intel
Danielle Kinsella,
Director Sales Engineering and Technical Advisor, Gigamon
Security and observability are intrinsically connected and vital for every organization’s success. However, many companies still face challenges with achieving complete observability, dealing with tools collection sprawl, and gaining complete application visibility. Why is it a must for organizations to streamline visibility across complex environments, optimize their security posture, and make informed decisions to protect their infrastructure?
This session will explore how Gigamon enhances your security tools by integrating advanced network intelligence and unlocking additional capabilities. ... Show More Show Less
This session will explore how Gigamon enhances your security tools by integrating advanced network intelligence and unlocking additional capabilities. ... Show More Show Less
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GST
Ask the Expert: What Are the Top Security Use Cases for AI?
Craig Porter,
Director Analyst, Gartner
This open-ended session is an opportunity for attendees to ask any questions they have about AI and cybersecurity. Some questions this session will cover include: where organizations are seeing value, what to expect from AI in the future, whether you should wait or trust your vendor about this new GenAI feature, and more.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM GST
Workshop: Upgrading Incident Response for Breach Reporting Requirements
Wam Voster,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Cybersecurity incident response plans must accommodate breach notification laws and regulations — including the SEC's cybersecurity rules. Yet breach notification requires input and participation across functions, including finance, legal, compliance and privacy. Join this workshop to develop an upgraded incident response plan, covering incident severity assessment, escalation, chain of custody, evidence retention and other important features.
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GST
Executive Story Q&A: Cybersecurity Workforce Design Reimagined
Olivier Busolini,
Group CISO, Mashreq Bank
Lorna Trayan,
Sr Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
In this session, “Cybersecurity Workforce Design Reimagined,” we delve into innovative organizational models to enhance talent development and organizational resilience. By leveraging service ownership, Centers of Excellence (CoE), T-Shaped experts, job shadowing, and matrix organizations, we aim to cultivate a versatile and skilled cybersecurity workforce. These models not only foster continuous learning and skill enhancement but also build a robust organizational framework that retains top talent. Our approach ensures that the cybersecurity organization remains agile, resilient, and capable of addressing evolving threats while maintaining high employee satisfaction and retention.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GST
SOC Sourcing Sorcery: Be a Wizard at Selecting Service Providers
Steve Santos,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Managing security operations center (SOC) complexity and maintaining operational excellence is difficult. Security service providers often promise to help, but choosing the wrong type of service and engagement model leads to frustration. This session discusses how to build a hybrid SOC using role and objective modeling to better plan how to use service providers.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GST
Cybersecurity Turbulence Report: 7 Forces That Will Threaten Your Organization's Future
Leigh McMullen,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The security landscape is ever-changing, evolving and complex. To add to the complexity, security threats could come from all areas of what Gartner refers to as Tapestry (TPESTRE — technology, politics, economics, social, trust, regulatory, and environmental). This session discusses the seven forces that will threaten your organization's future.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GST
Practical Zero Trust — The Art of the Possible
Charlie Winckless,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Many Gartner clients are either looking at adopting a zero trust initiative, being asked about it by their leadership or trying to implement it. This session will address the practicalities of getting started with zero trust and some possible shortfalls and risks that can occur — focusing on the art of the possible and practical rather than the perfect ideal.
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11:45 AM - 12:30 PM GST
Roundtable: Securing the Modern Application from Code to Infrastructure, moderated by Akamai
Rupesh Chokshi,
SVP & GM APPLICATION SECURITY, AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES - MA
With the modern enterprise running more than 1,061 applications on average, ensuring excellent customer experience without compromising performance is crucial. The pervasive way applications run our world has introduced security vulnerabilities that multiply as we become ever more connected. During this discussion, the pivotal points in the application ecosystem to protect against the abuse and exploitation of vulnerabilities, from secure code to application workloads and the infrastructure that powers applications will be discussed to prevent, detect, and mitigate threats.
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