SecureWorld Seattle 2026

This intensive, live workshop is your shortcut to cyber resilience mastery. In just one power-packed day, you’ll walk away with:

• Complete mastery of NIST CSF 2.0 – Understand every component and why it matters to YOUR business
• Your personalized Cyber Risk Map – Identify your organization’s exact vulnerabilities and blind spots
• A step-by-step action plan – No more guessing what to do next
• Real-world case studies – See how organizations just like yours have successfully implemented the framework
• Expert-level confidence – Finally speak cybersecurity with authority and clarity

What makes this different?
This isn’t another theoretical lecture. You’ll spend most of your time actually BUILDING your organization’s cybersecurity roadmap using the proven Cyber Risk Management Action Plan (CR-MAP) methodology. You’ll leave with tools and know-how you can implement immediately.

Perfect for:

• IT Directors and Managers
• Cybersecurity Professionals
• Business Leaders responsible for risk management
• Compliance Officers
• Anyone tasked with “figuring out cybersecurity”

Exclusive Bonus: Every attendee receives our comprehensive digital CR-MAP Online Workbook ($197 value), your step-by-step guide to:

• Getting BUY-IN from your senior decision makers
• Discovering your top five cyber risks
• Creating a prioritized risk mitigation plan with implementation roadmap
• A score card you can use to track progress

Warning: This live, in-person intensive has limited seating. Don’t let another cyber incident catch your organization unprepared.

Your organization’s cybersecurity can’t wait. Register now.

Come to the Registration desk in the lobby to check-in and get your badge. SecureWorld staff will be available throughout the day if you have any questions.

Your opportunity to visit our solution vendor partners, whose sponsorship makes SecureWorld possible, as well as association chapters! Booths have staff ready to answer your questions. Look for participating Dash For Prizes sponsors to be entered to win prizes.

Also, look for “Cyber Connect” discussions on select topics and join the conversation.

Moderated discussion for SecureWorld Advisory Council members. By invite only.

Participating professional associations and details to be announced.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our supporting solution providers and association partners.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our supporting solution providers and association partners.

Session details to come.

Session details to come.

Session details to come.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our supporting solution providers and association partners.

Session details to come.

Quantum computing has crossed a critical threshold from a long-term research initiative to an immediate enterprise risk and national security priority. The June 2026 federal executive orders accelerating quantum computing capabilities and directing agencies to adopt post-quantum cryptography (PQC) have fundamentally changed the cybersecurity timeline. Organizations can no longer afford to treat quantum resilience as a future compliance initiative. The threat has already begun.

Nation-state adversaries are actively conducting “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” (HNDL) campaigns, collecting encrypted intellectual property, financial records, healthcare data, operational technology communications, and other sensitive information with the expectation that future cryptographically relevant quantum computers will decrypt it. For sectors such as financial services, energy, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure, the risk is not limited to future confidentiality loss it extends to long-term operational resilience, supply chain trust, regulatory exposure, and national security.

This session presents a practical, engineering-driven framework for helping enterprises transition from policy awareness to operational readiness. Drawing on experience designing and leading cybersecurity programs across fintech, enterprise environments, and critical infrastructure, the presentation focuses on the organizational, architectural, and governance challenges that determine whether post-quantum migration succeeds.

As organizational footprints expand across cloud, SaaS, OT/IoT, and dispersed workforces, defenders face a more complex and interconnected digital battlefield. This panel brings together experts to explore how today’s threat actors combine automation, social engineering, identity breaches, and software supply-chain attacks into highly coordinated assaults.

Panelists will examine the expanding importance of identity in the modern SOC, the emergence of AI-driven threats such as automated reconnaissance and deepfake-assisted breaches, and how fourth-party dependencies are changing risk visibility. The discussion also connects these trends to organizational resilience—showing how teams can improve detection, response, and business continuity across an evolving attack surface. This comprehensive session provides practical insights for any security leader seeking clarity amid converging threats.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our supporting solution providers and association partners.

Moderated discussion for SecureWorld Advisory Council members. By invite only.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our supporting solution providers and association partners.

In this interactive, table-top exercise session, the audience is divided into two or three separate groups and designated as companies or entities doing business together. A BEC incident is introduced, and the group is asked to tabletop how to remedy the BEC incident from different perspectives of financial victims, compromise victims, and affected third parties. A gamification of the participation will show which group would have the better chance at a proper recovery based on prior investigations and incidents.

Session details to come.

AI is revolutionizing cybersecurity at all levels, speeding up detection and enabling automated attacks on an unprecedented scale. This session examines AI’s dual role as both a powerful defensive tool and a new threat vector for attackers. Panelists will discuss how AI copilots enhance analyst workflows, triage, and anomaly detection, while also addressing emerging risks such as LLM data leakage, prompt injection, model poisoning, and hallucinations within high-trust SOC processes.

The discussion will cover AI governance and assurance frameworks, evolving regulatory expectations, and the impact of synthetic content—including deepfakes, audio spoofing, and hyper-personalized phishing—on social engineering defenses. Attendees will leave with a solid understanding of AI’s potential, the safety measures needed for responsible deployment, and practical steps for preparing teams and pipelines for an AI-driven threat environment.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our supporting solution providers and association partners.

This session introduces the comprehensive, no-cost cybersecurity services offered by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to owners and operators of critical infrastructure in both the private sector and the public sector—including state, local, and tribal governments. Participants will gain insight into CISA’s technical and strategic assessments, such as vulnerability scanning, web application scanning, and maturity evaluations, all designed to bolster cyber resilience. The presentation also covers how to access timely threat notifications, utilize exercise packages, engage with protective security advisors, and receive emergency communications support. Attendees will leave with actionable next steps and key points of contact to help them proactively strengthen their cybersecurity posture, all at no cost to their organization.

Session details to come.

Modern enterprises rely on a complex mix of cloud providers, SaaS platforms, APIs, and distributed identities—offering agility but also creating new control gaps. This panel gathers leaders in CSPM, workload protection, cloud identity, API security, and SaaS governance to explore the challenges of securing multi-cloud environments at scale.

Panelists will discuss AI-driven misconfigurations, rapid SaaS sprawl, and the persistent risk of API-related breaches, as well as how zero trust principles are applied to cloud entitlements and data flows. The conversation also covers DSPM-led visibility, cross-cloud identity governance, and the convergence of network and cloud security through SASE/SSE. Whether you’re cloud-mature or still early in the journey, this session provides strategies for protecting cloud workloads, identities, and data in environments where every misconfiguration can become a breach.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our supporting solution providers and association partners.

Join your peers for conversation and complimentary beverages. This is a great opportunity to network with other security professionals from the area and discuss the hot topics from the day.

This intensive, live workshop is your shortcut to cyber resilience mastery. In just one power-packed day, you’ll walk away with:

• Complete mastery of NIST CSF 2.0 – Understand every component and why it matters to YOUR business
• Your personalized Cyber Risk Map – Identify your organization’s exact vulnerabilities and blind spots
• A step-by-step action plan – No more guessing what to do next
• Real-world case studies – See how organizations just like yours have successfully implemented the framework
• Expert-level confidence – Finally speak cybersecurity with authority and clarity

What makes this different?
This isn’t another theoretical lecture. You’ll spend most of your time actually BUILDING your organization’s cybersecurity roadmap using the proven Cyber Risk Management Action Plan (CR-MAP) methodology. You’ll leave with tools and know-how you can implement immediately.

Perfect for:

• IT Directors and Managers
• Cybersecurity Professionals
• Business Leaders responsible for risk management
• Compliance Officers
• Anyone tasked with “figuring out cybersecurity”

Exclusive Bonus: Every attendee receives our comprehensive digital CR-MAP Online Workbook ($197 value), your step-by-step guide to:

• Getting BUY-IN from your senior decision makers
• Discovering your top five cyber risks
• Creating a prioritized risk mitigation plan with implementation roadmap
• A score card you can use to track progress

Warning: This live, in-person intensive has limited seating. Don’t let another cyber incident catch your organization unprepared.

Your organization’s cybersecurity can’t wait. Register now.

Come to the Registration desk in the lobby to check-in and get your badge. SecureWorld staff will be available throughout the day if you have any questions.

This intensive, live workshop is your shortcut to cyber resilience mastery. In just one power-packed day, you’ll walk away with:

• Complete mastery of NIST CSF 2.0 – Understand every component and why it matters to YOUR business
• Your personalized Cyber Risk Map – Identify your organization’s exact vulnerabilities and blind spots
• A step-by-step action plan – No more guessing what to do next
• Real-world case studies – See how organizations just like yours have successfully implemented the framework
• Expert-level confidence – Finally speak cybersecurity with authority and clarity

What makes this different?
This isn’t another theoretical lecture. You’ll spend most of your time actually BUILDING your organization’s cybersecurity roadmap using the proven Cyber Risk Management Action Plan (CR-MAP) methodology. You’ll leave with tools and know-how you can implement immediately.

Perfect for:

• IT Directors and Managers
• Cybersecurity Professionals
• Business Leaders responsible for risk management
• Compliance Officers
• Anyone tasked with “figuring out cybersecurity”

Exclusive Bonus: Every attendee receives our comprehensive digital CR-MAP Online Workbook ($197 value), your step-by-step guide to:

• Getting BUY-IN from your senior decision makers
• Discovering your top five cyber risks
• Creating a prioritized risk mitigation plan with implementation roadmap
• A score card you can use to track progress

Warning: This live, in-person intensive has limited seating. Don’t let another cyber incident catch your organization unprepared.

Your organization’s cybersecurity can’t wait. Register now.

Your opportunity to visit our solution vendor partners, whose sponsorship makes SecureWorld possible, as well as association chapters! Booths have staff ready to answer your questions. Look for participating Dash For Prizes sponsors to be entered to win prizes.

Also, look for “Cyber Connect” discussions on select topics and join the conversation.

Moderated discussion for SecureWorld Advisory Council members. By invite only.

Participating professional associations and details to be announced.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our supporting solution providers and association partners.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our supporting solution providers and association partners.

Nearly every vendor has embedded AI into their product. Most organizations updated their vendor risk questionnaires but are still asking the wrong questions. Industry research shows that 90% of security leaders report AI visibility, yet nearly six in 10 confirm that ungoverned AI systems exist in their environment. This session presents 10 questions your vendor assessments are missing, drawn from published agentic AI threat models and real supply chain breach evidence from 2025 and 2026. For each question, we cover why standard questionnaires skip it and what a defensible risk decision looks like.

Leave with 10 practitioner-tested questions that expose the gaps between what AI vendors promise and what your current assessment process actually evaluates.

Session details to come.

Session details to come.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our supporting solution providers and association partners.

1. How Do You Say No (and Actually Be Heard)? Security professionals at every level constantly face pressure to approve things they shouldn’t, meet timelines that cut corners, or stay quiet in rooms where decisions are being made above them. This session,  moderated by Ann Robinson, covers how to push back effectively, how to frame risk in business terms, and how to build credibility so your “no” carries weight. CISOs have years of hard lessons here that early-career professionals rarely get exposed to.

AI agents are being deployed across enterprise environments with the ability to call APIs, read files, execute code, and take actions on behalf of users. They chain tool calls, delegate to other agents, and operate without human review at each step. The authorization controls most organizations have in place were simply not designed for this.

This session examines what goes wrong when agents inherit human permissions, how privilege escalates through multi-agent workflows, and why existing controls create a false sense of security. It also covers what the industry is building to address the gap—emerging standards for agent identity, authorization APIs, and real-time trust signaling—and what security teams can do today without waiting for broad adoption.

People have always been the most targeted layer in any organization’s security posture—but AI is rewriting the rules of engagement. Sophisticated phishing campaigns now arrive personalized at scale, deepfake audio and video are eroding the credibility of internal communications, and MFA fatigue attacks are turning security controls against the users they were designed to protect. The threat surface hasn’t changed, but the speed, precision, and plausibility of attacks targeting it have.

At the same time, defenders are gaining new tools. Behavioral analytics and UEBA platforms are surfacing anomalies that static rules would miss, and AI-assisted policy frameworks are helping organizations govern workforce behavior—including how employees interact with AI tools themselves—without sacrificing productivity. This panel brings together practitioners navigating insider risk, identity-based threats, and the governance questions that arise when the line between human error and AI-augmented deception becomes increasingly hard to draw.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our supporting solution providers and association partners.

Moderated discussion for SecureWorld Advisory Council members. By invite only.

Visit the Networking Hall to network with attendees and connect with our supporting solution providers and association partners.

Session details to come.

Session details to come.

Resilience has shifted from a compliance task to a vital business skill. This panel explores how organizations prepare for disruptive cyber incidents involving multi-cloud setups, SaaS dependencies, supply chain issues, and rapid ransomware attacks. With experts in incident response, digital forensics, MDR, insurance, and crisis management, the panel emphasizes developing response playbooks that mirror current operational dependencies.

Panelists will explore insurer-driven requirements for identity security and MFA, lessons from major SaaS outages, and how to communicate effectively with executives and boards when downtime impacts revenue-critical operations. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to engineer resilience—not just respond—and how to align IR, continuity planning, insurance, and business priorities into a unified, enterprise-wide strategy.

This is your final chance to visit the Networking Hall and get scanned by our participating partners for our Dash for Prizes. You can also turn in your Passport cards at the Registration Desk before we announce our winner!

Security teams are under increasing pressure to reduce tool sprawl, streamline SOC workflows, and demonstrate measurable ROI—fueling a wave of consolidation across the industry. This panel explores the shift toward unified detection and response platforms, integrated identity and data controls, AI-enabled SOC copilots that unify telemetry, and architectural simplification that reduces operational drag.

Panelists from XDR, SIEM, platform security, and MSSP providers will discuss frameworks for evaluating ROI, navigating contract consolidation, avoiding visibility gaps, and deciding where consolidation strengthens or weakens security posture. Ideal for leaders facing budget constraints or platform migrations, this session offers practical guidance for optimizing spending without sacrificing coverage.

One API request, aimed at the right endpoint, can compromise an entire organization. When an API answers without checking who is really asking, a single call can read any record, act as any user, and seize the powers meant for admins alone.

In this rapid-fire, hands-on workshop, you’ll go from zero to hacking your first API in 35 minutes. You’ll find and exploit the most common REST API vulnerabilities in real time, hands on the keyboard, against a live target. No prior hacking experience required. APIs are one of the best first vectors for learning offensive security, and by the end, you’ll have worked the OWASP API Security Top 10 by breaking an API yourself.

Built for beginners and practitioners who want quick, practical techniques they can use the next day—with some fun along the way.

Session details to come.

Participating sponsors will announce their Dash for Prizes winners. Must be present to win.

This intensive, live workshop is your shortcut to cyber resilience mastery. In just one power-packed day, you’ll walk away with:

• Complete mastery of NIST CSF 2.0 – Understand every component and why it matters to YOUR business
• Your personalized Cyber Risk Map – Identify your organization’s exact vulnerabilities and blind spots
• A step-by-step action plan – No more guessing what to do next
• Real-world case studies – See how organizations just like yours have successfully implemented the framework
• Expert-level confidence – Finally speak cybersecurity with authority and clarity

What makes this different?
This isn’t another theoretical lecture. You’ll spend most of your time actually BUILDING your organization’s cybersecurity roadmap using the proven Cyber Risk Management Action Plan (CR-MAP) methodology. You’ll leave with tools and know-how you can implement immediately.

Perfect for:

• IT Directors and Managers
• Cybersecurity Professionals
• Business Leaders responsible for risk management
• Compliance Officers
• Anyone tasked with “figuring out cybersecurity”

Exclusive Bonus: Every attendee receives our comprehensive digital CR-MAP Online Workbook ($197 value), your step-by-step guide to:

• Getting BUY-IN from your senior decision makers
• Discovering your top five cyber risks
• Creating a prioritized risk mitigation plan with implementation roadmap
• A score card you can use to track progress

Warning: This live, in-person intensive has limited seating. Don’t let another cyber incident catch your organization unprepared.

Your organization’s cybersecurity can’t wait. Register now.