SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit Fall 2026

The SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit Fall 2026 is a two-day summit on November 2-3, 2026 at the Hilton Arlington Rosslyn The Key in Arlington, Virginia, with a live online option. Chaired by Rob T. Lee (Chief AI Officer, SANS Institute) and Sounil Yu (Knostic), it combines morning keynotes and fireside chats with afternoon hands-on workshops on investigating generative-AI threats, scoping AI agent swarms in incident response, autonomous DFIR agents and AI-assisted penetration testing. Speakers include leaders from PwC, Mastercard, Sysdig, Google and AWS. Attendance earns 12 CPE credits.

Date

November 2–3, 2026

Location

Hilton Arlington Rosslyn The Key, Virginia

Format

Hybrid

Event Type

Summit

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

SANS Institute

Added

Sep 21, 2026

Updated

Sep 21, 2026

• ✓CISOs and deputy CISOs
• ✓Security operations and incident-response leads
• ✓Red-team and penetration-testing leads
• ✓AI governance and risk officers
• ✓Government and public-sector security leaders
• ✓Security architects adopting AI agents

Security leaders are being asked to approve AI agents in their SOCs while defending against attackers using the same tools. This summit gives a CISO or security VP two days of concrete answers: how peers scope what agents may touch, how incident response extends to generative-AI systems, and what AI-assisted offence looks like against live targets. Teams leave with workshop-tested techniques they can pilot the following week, direct access to practitioners from PwC, Mastercard, Google and AWS, and 12 CPEs — at a fraction of the cost of a large vendor conference.

• ✓Keynotes and keynote fireside chats on both mornings (Morgan Adamski, Amy Herzog, Joshua Corman, Michael Collins, Daniel Miessler — 'Rethinking the AI Harness')
• ✓Threat Intelligence Brief on AI — John Hultquist
• ✓Panel: The Looming AI Cyber Disaster — Myth or Reality (Moussouris, Evron, Grossman, Epp, Hutchins)
• ✓Workshops: Scoping AI Swarms for incident response; Investigating AI Threats at the generative-AI layer; Offensive AI in Practice
• ✓Workshops: Delegating Security Work to AI Agents Without Losing Control (Lenny Zeltser); hands-on autonomous DFIR with Mulder; AI-assisted penetration testing (Pedram Amini)
• ✓Find Evil! Hackathon debrief: how the winners built autonomous DFIR agents
• ✓Solutions Expo, Summit Social and a Cyber Leaders podcast recording

• ★Practitioner-led rather than vendor-led: afternoons are two-hour hands-on workshops (autonomous DFIR, AI-assisted pentesting against live targets), not product demos.
• ★Agenda is squarely on the 2026 problem set — delegating security work to AI agents, investigating threats at the generative-AI layer, and whether an 'AI cyber disaster' is myth or reality.
• ★Senior, recognisable speakers: keynotes and panels with Katie Moussouris, Jeremiah Grossman, John Hultquist (Google), Amy Herzog (AWS) and Joshua Corman.
• ★Low cost for a two-day summit — $525 in person, $100 live online — with 12 CPEs.

Summit pass: $525 in person (Arlington, includes both summit days and workshops) or $100 live online; prices exclude applicable local taxes. 12 CPE credits for the summit.

When is SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit Fall 2026?

SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit Fall 2026 takes place November 2–3, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia.

Where is SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit Fall 2026 held?

SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit Fall 2026 is held in Arlington, Virginia. The event format is hybrid.

How much does SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit Fall 2026 cost?

SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit Fall 2026 is paid. Summit pass: $525 in person (Arlington, includes both summit days and workshops) or $100 live online; prices exclude applicable local taxes. 12 CPE credits for the summit.

Who should attend SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit Fall 2026?

SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit Fall 2026 is aimed at CISOs and deputy CISOs, Security operations and incident-response leads, Red-team and penetration-testing leads, AI governance and risk officers, Government and public-sector security leaders, Security architects adopting AI agents.

What topics does SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit Fall 2026 cover?

SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit Fall 2026 covers AI threat intelligence, Securing AI agents, AI in incident response and DFIR, Offensive AI and AI-assisted penetration testing, Generative AI attack surface, AI security governance.

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