5 key priorities for your RSAC 2026 agenda
Summary
The RSA Conference 2026 agenda is heavily influenced by AI, with approximately 40% of sessions addressing its integration across all cybersecurity tracks. CISOs face a dual mandate to enable AI adoption for competitiveness while securing the enterprise against AI-generated threats.
IFF Assessment
The article highlights that AI itself is creating a new and complex threat landscape that organizations are not yet equipped to defend against, representing a growing challenge for defenders.
Defender Context
As AI becomes increasingly embedded in cybersecurity, defenders must prioritize learning about the new attack surfaces it introduces, such as RAG workflows, LLM data pipelines, and vector databases. Understanding and mitigating novel threats like prompt injection and training data poisoning will be critical for securing AI-enabled environments.