The 2025 agenda delivered the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across key topic areas, covering the challenges most critical to CISOs and their leadership teams.
The 2025 agenda delivered the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across key topic areas, covering the challenges most critical to CISOs and their leadership teams.
Track A. Cybersecurity Leadership
Learn how cybersecurity leaders can excel in their roles in the face of mission-critical challenges, including distributed technology decisions, labor shortages, the rise of AI and an exponentially expanding attack surface.
Track B. Cyber-Risk Management
You might think risk has been overhyped, but don’t wait for it to materialize. This track covers risks relevant to privacy, supply chains and cybersecurity. Learn how to communicate value, correlate risk data to automate control monitoring and enable decision making.
Track C. Infrastructure Security
This track explores the evolving landscape of AI, privacy and infrastructure security solutions, from managed and unmanaged endpoints to the rapidly evolving network requirements to support cloud workloads and remote workspaces.
Track D. Application and Data Security
New technologies mean new threats and an increasing attack surface, not all of which are visible by the teams responsible for threat management. This track explores the latest developments and future roadmaps to traditional application and data security problems.
Track E. Cybersecurity Operations
Security operations is a crucial component of an effective security program. This track helps leaders increase business resilience through effective threat and exposure visibility, innovative applications of AI, response planning and risk prioritization for your organization.
Track F. The CISO Circle Program
Effectiveness in the CISO role continues to be a “moving target” in the face of ever-increasing business expectations. The application-only CISO Circle Program curates Gartner best insights and guidance in highly interactive sessions.
Spotlight Track: Technical Insights for Security Professionals
The Technical Insights track leverages Gartner for Technical Professionals research to deliver actionable, technical insights into security best practices, methodologies and tools that your organization needs to assure operational success.
Spotlight Track: Artificial Intelligence
AI will durably disrupt cybersecurity in positive ways, but also create many short-term challenges. Learn how to effectively integrate AI into your cybersecurity roadmap.
Spotlight Track: New To Role
The first 90 to 100 days in a new role represent a career-defining opportunity for CISOs. Experience the Gartner guidance and support system as you work your way through these first days in your new position, along with others in the same position.
Spotlight Track: Identity and Access Management
Security leaders must evolve their IAM toward an identity-first approach that puts identity-based controls at the heart of your organization’s protection architecture to enhance its cybersecurity posture, while delivering digital transformation and business value.
Spotlight Track: Midsize Enterprise
Midsize enterprises (MSEs) need to defend against the same threats and manage the same vulnerabilities as large organizations, but MSEs are resource-limited for people, budget and time. This track focuses on providing pragmatic advice.
Spotlight Track: Government
The mission objectives and dynamics of governmental organizations require unique skills and technical capabilities in the cybersecurity program. This track explores the challenges in and real-world solutions to supporting successful cybersecurity programs in government.