Planet Cyber Sec AI: Virtual Mini Summit
Securing the Rise of AI Agents
Free to attend · Vendor-neutral · Live Q&A · Registration required
AI agents can draft reports, access sensitive data, use enterprise tools, and take action across systems. As their capabilities grow, security teams need a clearer way to decide what agents should be allowed to do - and how to spot trouble when they don’t behave as expected.
Join Planet Cyber Sec for a virtual summit on AI agent security, visibility, and governance. Hear practical perspectives from experienced practitioners, explore real-world scenarios, ask questions during live Q&A, and take part in an interactive AI workshop.
You’ll leave with a stronger framework for evaluating agent risk, ideas for improving visibility and detection, and practical questions to bring back to your team.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
11:50 AM–3:00 PM Pacific Time | 2:50 PM–6:00 PM Eastern Time
11:50 AM — Welcome & Introduction; main program begins at 12:00 PM Pacific
Location: Zoom. Your unique access link will be emailed shortly before the event.
CPE credits: Available upon request.
This event is currently open to professionals located outside the European Union.
What You'll Take Away
Evaluate AI agent risk — autonomy, authority, access, and impact
See and detect AI agents — visibility, hunting, telemetry, and detection
Govern AI responsibly — sanctioned and shadow AI
Prepare for what's next — becoming “Frontier Ready”
Featured Speakers & Sessions
Caroline Wong - Chief Strategy Officer at Axari and Author of The AI Cybersecurity Handbook
Talk:
Autonomy Isn’t Authority: A Better Way to Think About AI Agent Risk
An AI agent that runs by itself every morning to draft a briefing and an AI agent that waits for a human instruction before moving $5 million are both “agents.” But they are very different security problems.
A lot of the conversation about agentic AI treats autonomy as a proxy for risk: the more independently an agent operates, the more dangerous it must be. That misses something important. Autonomy is about how independently something operates. Authority is about what it is allowed to do. Those are two different things.
This talk offers a practical way to evaluate AI agents by looking at both, along with the other things that actually determine how much risk an agent creates: what data it can reach, what can influence it, which tools and systems it can connect, and what happens when it gets something wrong.
The goal isn’t to come up with another AI risk score. It’s to ask better questions about what an agent can actually do, how far its actions can travel, and where the controls need to be.
Aaron Turner - A cybersecurity veteran and entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience spanning Microsoft, critical infrastructure security, and technology innovation. He also serves as an IANS Faculty expert, advising security leaders on cyber risk and resilience.
Talk:
Hunting AI Agents: Building a SecOps Capability in the Age of AI Agents
AI agents are being deployed faster than security teams can track them and are becoming the shadow workforce in our enterprises. They’re now in browsers, developer pipelines, SaaS platforms, and endpoints with access to massive amounts of data.
Teams are challenged to both gain visibility and continually monitor that the agents are performing as expected. In this virtual symposium, IANS Faculty Aaron Turner provides a structured methodology to enable teams to build an AI hunting capability.
Identify common challenges and lessons learned from real-world cases of agents being manipulated or going rogue.
Gain a structured methodology to build an AI hunting capability, including what telemetry to collect, how to build detection logic, and how to govern both sanctioned and shadow AI before it becomes a breach vector.
Jim Reavis - Co-founder & CEO of CSA
https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/profiles/jim-reavis
Talk:
The Future of Cybersecurity Is Frontier Ready. What Is It and How Do I Get There?
AI is changing the speed, scale, and economics of cybersecurity. As frontier models and autonomous agents expand what attackers and defenders can accomplish, security leaders face a fundamental challenge: how to transform their organizations while the technology continues to advance.
Being “Frontier Ready” means building the capacity to continuously adapt - defending against AI-powered adversaries, securing enterprise AI, and reshaping security operations around humans and intelligent agents working together. This transformation reaches across security architecture, workforce skills, governance, and investment priorities.
In this session, Jim Reavis, CEO and co-founder of the Cloud Security Alliance, will explain CSA’s vision for Frontier Ready cybersecurity and the practical steps organizations can take to get there. Drawing on CSA’s research and readiness framework, he will explore how to assess organizational maturity, prioritize changes to vulnerability management and security operations, establish enforceable controls over AI agents, and prepare professionals to build, supervise, and validate increasingly automated defenses.
Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of what Frontier Ready means for their organization and their own careers, along with a starting roadmap for turning AI disruption into stronger security capabilities.
Tom Bendien - CEO, GT Edge AI
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