All 2025 Conference Sessions

Gartner Keynote: Harness the Hype: Turning Disruption Into Cybersecurity Opportunity

Speakers:

• Leigh McMullen, Distinguished Vice President
• Christine Lee, Vice President

Key take-aways

• Be mission-aligned: When CISOs communicate in terms of protection levels and buying down exposure levels, they are less likely to get caught up in someone else’s marketing hype. This eventually helps CISOs prove that their cybersecurity efforts are aligned to their organization’s mission.
• Be innovation-ready: CISOs must cultivate AI literacy, experiment with AI in cybersecurity and protect AI investments in their organizations.
• Be change-agile: CISOs must be able to empower their teams to be part of the solution and feel agency. If CISOs’ teams feel agency, they will want to focus on automating repetitive tasks and developing new skills to fuel your growth, as well as theirs, which in turn will make them resilient agents of change no matter what that change is.

Technical Insights: How to Mitigate Deepfake Identity Impersonation Attacks

Speaker:

• Akif Khan, Vice President

Key take-aways

• GenAI-created deepfakes can be used by attackers to impersonate the identity of genuine customers or employees. Deepfakes can be combined with social engineering in calls to employees to try to trick them into helping the attackers achieve their goals.
• Preventing deepfake identity impersonation attacks is not just about being able to detect the deepfake, as all risk signals are useful.
• Deepfakes and social engineering are a bad combination. CISOs must make their people and processes more resilient but stay aware of nascent technical solutions.

Future of AI in Cybersecurity: Predictions and Challenges for 2025-2028

Speaker:

• Jeremy D’Hoinne, Distinguished Vice President

Key take-aways

• Do not use AI as an excuse and hope for a magical AI solution to solve all cybersecurity issues.
• Cybersecurity objectives must lead AI adoption, not the other way around.
• AI requires increased cybersecurity investments, not less.
• CISOs must become "Agile AI Tinkerers.”
• Ensure cybersecurity objectives drive the use cases.