Securing AI at Scale Takes Center Stage at ISMG Implications of AI Summit 2026

As AI Reshapes Cybersecurity, the Virtual AI Summit Targets Scale, Trust and Resilience

Princeton, NJ – Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the cybersecurity landscape, prompting enterprises to rethink how they detect threats, govern innovation and build resilient security teams. The Virtual Cybersecurity Summit: Implications of AI, taking place on February 24 with on-demand access available through February 27, will bring industry leaders together to examine how organizations can harness AI securely, without compromising human judgment, governance or trust.

Spanning Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, the virtual cybersecurity summit will bring together global security leaders to explore how AI is transforming cyber defense, from zero-day detection and SOC operations to enterprise governance, critical infrastructure protection and quantum-ready security – united by one urgent mandate: securing AI and securing with AI.

While the 2025 summit focused on governing and securing AI, including intent-based data protection, AI oversight and the evolving role of risk and security leaders, the 2026 summit shifts the focus to scale and impact. This year’s program advances the conversation to securing AI-driven enterprises, with emphasis on AI identity and trust, SOC and critical infrastructure transformation, quantum-ready security, and the economics of AI security in a rapidly changing threat landscape.

“Whether you’re scaling AI-driven enterprises, managing risk and ROI, or protecting critical infrastructure, the Virtual AI Summit is your compass for resilient, scalable and trusted AI security,” said Jennifer Eisenhofer, vice president of events, ISMG.

The summit agenda blends strategic insight with hands-on guidance, addressing real-world security challenges as AI becomes embedded across enterprise operations. Opening with a deep dive into securing AI-assisted engineering, the program examines how AI-driven development is reshaping the threat landscape, and what security and DevSecOps leaders must do to protect AI-powered workflows at scale.

Extending the focus from engineering risk to enterprise execution, the agenda also features a session led by Sean D. Mack, managing director of CXO Advisory Practice at ISMG, who will examine how organizations can move from AI experimentation to secure, repeatable deployment at scale. Drawing on real-world experience, Mack will outline practical frameworks for governing AI systems across their life cycle, helping security and risk leaders establish oversight, accountability and trust as AI becomes operationalized across the enterprise.

Expert-led sessions will explore AI-driven zero-day detection, modern enterprise AI governance, securing critical infrastructure, transforming SOC operations, and preparing security strategies for a quantum-ready future.

The summit also examines the human and governance foundations required to make AI work securely at scale. “Building the AI-Ready Security Team” focuses on how organizations can blend human expertise with AI-driven tools, upskilling teams to question, contextualize, and act on AI insights while preserving critical thinking and accountability. Complementing this, “Balancing Innovation With Risk: Enterprise AI Governance Models” brings practical guidance on setting guardrails for responsible AI adoption, featuring perspectives from J.D. Rogers, CISO at American Financial Bank, and Vivek Menon, CISO at Digital Turbine, on aligning innovation with security, compliance and business integrity in an era of shadow AI.

Featuring regionally tailored sessions programming across global time zones and opportunities to earn CPE credits, the Virtual Cybersecurity Summit: Implications of AI, 2026, provides security leaders with a global platform to exchange insights, learn from real-world use cases and advance practical strategies for securing AI-driven enterprises.

For registration and more event information, click here.

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About ISMG Events

ISMG Events is a premier platform for security professionals and practitioners worldwide. Our global, annual events bring together the ISMG Events Community, comprising over 40,000 members, to exchange knowledge, insights and best practices in the field of cybersecurity. The cornerstone of our event portfolio is the ISMG Global Summit Series. These summits take place both virtually and in-person, offering participants a diverse range of topics to explore. In addition to our Global Summit Series, ISMG Events hosts exclusive Executive Roundtables that are closed-door, topic-focused discussions that provide practitioners with a collaborative environment to address today’s most pressing security concerns.