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Agentic AI Threats & SOC Autonomy

AI agents are moving from the whiteboard to the SOC floor — and security teams are figuring out the rules as they go. In this webcast, SANS instructor Dave Shackleford and a Palo Alto Networks expert share fresh survey data from practitioners navigating the shift from static automation to autonomous AI operations. What threats are keeping defenders up at night?

The SOC Analyst in the Age of AI: What’s Changing, What Still Matters, and How to Keep Up

AI can speed up investigations, but it can also lead analysts astray. Join John Hubbard to explore where AI helps, which SOC skills still matter, and how SEC450’s major update prepares analysts for AI-enabled detection, triage, and investigation.

Fall Cyber Solutions Fest 2026: Emerging Technologies Track

SANS Fall Cyber Solutions Fest 2026: Emerging Technologies Track explores the cutting edge of security innovation as organizations race to secure increasingly complex digital ecosystems.

Fall Cyber Solutions Fest 2026: Identity Security and Zero Trust Track

The SANS Fall Cyber Solutions Fest 2026: Identity Security and Zero Trust Track delivers a deep technical examination of identity as the modern attack surface.

Fall Cyber Solutions Fest 2026: SOC Track

The SANS Fall Cyber Solutions Fest 2026 SOC Track brings together frontline defenders, analysts, engineers, and SOC leaders to dissect the evolving threat landscape and the technologies reshaping modern security operations.

The Unpatched Long Tail: What Your Patch Program Misses

Most patching programs cover the obvious software. The real risk often sits outside that core set: user-installed apps, niche tools, legacy software, and unsupported packages that quietly remain across the environment. Join Action1 to explore how to uncover this hidden software exposure, understand the risk it creates, and decide what to patch, update, replace, or remove.

SANS 2026 Detection and Response Survey Report: Signals, Not Noise

Now in its third year, this independent, vendor-neutral survey captures both a snapshot and a trendline—offering critical insights into what’s working, what’s lagging, and where the industry is heading. Join us as we break down the results and uncover how real-world teams are cutting through noise to focus on signals that matter.

SANS Cyber Defense Initiative 2026 - SANS@Night: The Changing Role of the Security Leader

Attend this session to learn how to think about the role of a modern security leader to succeed in today’s environment.

SANS Cyber Defense Initiative 2026 - SANS@Night: Rehearsing the End of the World: A MITRE-Led TTX on Protracted Cyber Conflict

MITRE recently hosted the Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise (CICS TTX), bringing together approximately 200 participants from 70 organizations—including federal, state, and local governments, emergency managers, and industry representatives from pipelines, electricity, IT, communications, and rail—across five metropolitan areas.

Hybrid Mesh Firewall Evaluators Guide: Key Criteria and Assessment Checklist

Choosing a hybrid mesh firewall requires evidence that it can address your organization’s security and operational priorities. Join us to learn how to turn those priorities into testable requirements and use an evaluation checklist to guide selection, proof-of-concept testing, and implementation acceptance.

SANS 2027 SOC, SIEM, SOAR Forum

Join us for a fast paced survey of vendors and practitioners' take on what they're doing for SOC/SIEM/SOAR right now.

Cyber Solutions Fest Spring 2027: Detection & Response Track

The Detection & Response Track at SANS Spring Cyber Solutions Fest 2027 convenes leading security architects, analysts, and technology partners to explore how modern operations teams are redefining threat visibility and defense at scale.

SANS Spring Cyber Solutions Fest 2027: Exposure Management Track

This track focuses on that next gap: moving from exposure discovery to measurable risk reduction. It brings together practitioners and technology providers addressing the questions teams face across the exposure management lifecycle: Which exposures matter most in your environment?

2027 SANS State of Identity Threats & Defenses Survey Insights Event - From Detection to Containment in the Age of Machine Identity

Explore the 2027 SANS Identity Threats & Defenses Survey with Rich Greene and industry experts. Discover trends in machine identity, detection, containment, and the defenses shaping the future of identity security.

2027 SANS Government Cybersecurity Survey Insights Event Modernizing Government Cybersecurity: Building Resilience Across an Evolving Threat Landscape

Explore findings from the 2027 SANS Government Cybersecurity Survey and hear experts discuss how agencies are modernizing security across AI, cloud, Zero Trust, threat response, exposure management, and IT/OT to build greater cyber resilience.

2027 SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Survey Insights: Faster Tools, Same Discipline: How CTI Teams Are Adapting Tradecraft in the Age of AI

Explore findings from the 2027 SANS CTI Survey and discover how AI and automation are reshaping threat intelligence. Hear experts discuss evolving tradecraft, human expertise, integration across security operations, and how CTI teams demonstrate impact.

SANS 2027 Cyber Innovations Showcase | Spring

The SANS 2027 Cyber Innovations Showcase will examine the technologies, startups, and emerging security categories that could define the next several years of cybersecurity

2027 SANS Cyber Resilience Survey Insights: Measuring the Gap Between Recovery Confidence and Recovery Reality

Led by survey author and SANS Instructor Matt Bromiley, this virtual event brings together industry experts to explore findings from the 2027 SANS Cyber Resilience Survey.

2027 SANS SOC Survey Insights: What’s Working in the Modern SOC? How staffing, outsourcing, AI, and automation are shaping detection and response—and where complexity gets in the way.

The 11th annual SANS SOC Survey looks at how security operations are being rebuilt to keep pace. This year's research digs into how SOC models are changing, how organizations are splitting work between in-house teams and outsourced partners, and how AI and automation are being woven into detection, investigation, and response.

2027 SANS Exposure Management Survey: From Attack Surface Visibility to Action

The 2027 SANS Exposure Management Survey examines how organizations turn visibility into action. It explores how teams combine vulnerability data, asset context, threat intelligence, identity risk, cloud posture, business criticality, and attack-path analysis to decide what matters most and drive remediation.