Live from RSAC 2026: AI, Zero Trust & Cybersecurity Trends You Need to Know – RSAC26 #1
Modern Phishing Attacks Are Under Multi-Channel Siege – Erich Kron – RSAC26 #1
Erich Kron, CISO Advisor at KnowBe4 is an author, a podcast host and regular contributor to cybersecurity industry publications. He is a veteran information security professional with over 30 years of experience in the medical, aerospace, manufacturing, and defense fields. His experience has fueled his passion for helping to address the human side of cybersecurity.
He is the former security manager for the US Army’s 2nd Regional Cyber Center and holds CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, SACP, and many other certifications. Erich has worked with information security professionals around the world to provide the tools, training, and educational opportunities to succeed in Information Security.
From Reactive to Autonomous: Real-Time Endpoint Intelligence in the Age of AI – Tim Morris – RSAC26 #1
Tim is a visionary leader and an IT and cyber security expert, with decades of experience across industries. He joined Tanium after retiring from Wells Fargo, where he was an SVP and led several teams in cyber operations, engineering, and research. He holds 25 US patents and has written many articles on cyber security topics. He is also a trusted source of insights and opinions for major publications and web shows, where he shares his knowledge and passion for the field.
Tim started his IT career as a developer and sysadmin in manufacturing, then moved to banking, where was a software packaging, scripting, active directory administration, and M&A projects. He has been dedicated to cybersecurity since 2009, specializing in areas such as detection and response, systems and patch management, vulnerability assessment, web-content filtering, malware analysis, red-teaming, and digital forensics.
The Identity Crisis of Agentic AI – Ron Rasin – RSAC26 #1
As Chief Strategy Officer, Ron leads Silverfort’s strategic alliances with technology partners, as well as our growth operations and business strategy. He brings more than 15+ years of hands-on product management experience and cyber security expertise. Prior to joining Silverfort, Ron was the Director of Product Management at Claroty, and held product management roles at Wix and NCR. Before that Ron served as a Team Leader at the 8200 elite cyber unit of the Israel Defense Forces. Ron holds a B.A in Economics from Tel Aviv University.
X-PHY Delivers Hardware-Enforced Security for the Age of AI Agents – Camellia Chan – RSAC26 #1
Camellia Chan is the Co-Founder and CEO of X-PHY Inc., a pioneering cybersecurity company delivering hardware-based protection at the physical layer. She leads the company’s global strategy, innovation, and partnerships, with a focus on AI-embedded solutions that provide real-time, autonomous defense against modern cyber threats. Under her leadership, X-PHY has developed a growing portfolio of patented technologies and launched award-winning solutions like the X-PHY® Cyber Secure SSD.
Zero Trust That Actually Ships: Moving From Strategy Decks to Real Security – Rohan Ravindranath – RSAC26 #1
Rohan Ravindranath is a cloud and security modernization strategist known for turning Zero Trust from concept into production reality. As Founder & CEO of Zappsec Technologies, he leads global infrastructure transformation programs that converge network modernization, cloud landing zones, microsegmentation, and AI-ready architecture into a unified execution model.
Rohan has directed large-scale initiatives spanning 1,000’s of international sites, embedding identity-driven controls and workload-level segmentation directly into modernization programs.
He is passionate about bridging the gap between security theory and operational deployment, helping enterprises enforce policy, reduce attack surface, and accelerate innovation simultaneously.
Agentic AI: Don’t Make Your SOC Faster at Being Wrong – Georges Bossert – RSAC26 #1
Georges Bossert is the Co-founder and Chief Technology and Product Officer of Sekoia.io. An engineer by training and PhD graduate from CentraleSupélec, his research focused on applying machine learning and grammatical inference to cybersecurity.
With over 15 years of experience, he has worked across the full spectrum of cybersecurity — from reverse engineering to leading technology and product strategy.
A former reservist in the French Army’s cyber operations division, Georges now serves as a board member and lecturer at the University of Rennes. He is passionate about innovation, mentoring, and building resilient teams. He was named *Innovator of the Year 2024* by *Le Point* magazine and a 2025 *Cyberscoop 50* finalist.
The SDLC Blind Spot: Why Breaches Start with Identity, Not Code – Raj Mallempati – RSAC26 #1
Raj Mallempati is CEO & Co-founder of BlueFlag Security. Prior to launching BlueFlag, he most recently served as COO CIEM at Microsoft, through Microsoft’s acquisition of his prior company CloudKnox Security (acquired 2021). Prior to joining CloudKnox, Raj was the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Malwarebytes. Raj has also held positions as the Vice President of Global Marketing at MobileIron, Vice President of Product Marketing at Riverbed Technology, and was the Director of Marketing and Business Strategy at VMware. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, MS, Computer Science from the University of Texas, and a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Introducing Legion Investigator: Goal-Oriented AI Investigations – Ely Abramovitch – RSAC26 #1
Ely Abramovitch is the Co-Founder and CEO of Legion Security, the world’s first browser-native AI SOC platform. With a background leading product management for Microsoft Sentinel, he has a proven track record of scaling multi-billion dollar security solutions. Abramovitch’s vision focuses on automating complex threat investigations by having AI learn directly from human analyst workflows. He is also a former jazz pianist whose transition into mathematics and technology has shaped his creative approach to solving enterprise security challenges.
Delinea: Redefining Identity Security for the Agentic AI Era – Phil Calvin – RSAC26 #1
Phil Calvin brings more than 25 years of software development, technical leadership and entrepreneurial experience to Delinea. His areas of expertise include technical strategy, cloud architecture, and engineering executive management. Prior to Delinea, Phil spent nearly a decade at Salesforce in a variety of architectural and engineering leadership roles, most recently leading the Platform Engineering organization and focusing on making the Salesforce platform trusted, accessible, and scalable.
Privileged by Design: AI Agents and the New Identity Risk to Production Systems – Shashwat Sehgal – RSAC26 #1
Shashwat Sehgal is the Co-Founder and CEO of P0 Security. He’s spent most of his career building security and observability products for developers, DevOps, and security teams.
Shashwat is passionate about solving the problem of cloud access security and helping security engineers’ control ‘who has access to sensitive resources in their clouds.’
He enjoys playing tennis, spending time with his family, teaching his son how to play chess, and geeking out on all things security.
Downtime: The New Economic Threat – Christy Wyatt – RSAC26 #1
Christy Wyatt is President and CEO of Absolute Security, an enterprise Cyber Resilience leader.
As a recognized business and cybersecurity industry visionary, Christy has deep experience and expertise spanning cybersecurity, enterprise mobility, embedded platforms, IoT, enterprise software, and data science.
Prior to Absolute Security, she served as the Chairman and CEO of Dtex Systems. Before that, she was President and CEO of Good Technology (acquired by Blackberry). Christy has held technology and business leadership roles at Citigroup, Motorola, Apple, Palm, and Sun Microsystems. She currently serves on the board of directors of LM Ericsson and Silicon Labs. She has previously served on the boards of Quotient Technologies, Good Technology, Dtex, Centrify, and the Linux Foundation.
Christy has been recognized as an SC Media Women in Cybersecurity Leader, CEO of the Year by Globe and Mail, a Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS, an Inc. Magazine Top 50 Women Entrepreneurs of America, an Information Security’s CEO of the Year, and a Fierce Wireless “Most Influential Women in Wireless.”
Scripted Sparrow: A Prolific BEC Group – John Wilson – RSAC26 #1
John Wilson has been combating email-based fraud since 2006, when he developed an authentication-based anti-phishing solution as CTO of Brandmail Solutions. John continued his mission to rid the world of email fraud at Agari. As part of their threat intelligence team, John assisted Microsoft and the FS-ISAC with the B54 Citadel botnet takedown by providing data related to Citadel botnet infections and by acting as a declarant in the civil forfeiture action filed in US District Court.
John joined Fortra through the acquisition of Agari in June 2021. In his current role at Fortra, he continues to research email scams and conduct experiments in “active defense”. In early 2023, John again worked with Microsoft, this time on a takedown effort aimed at curbing the illegal use of Fortra’s Cobalt Strike adversary simulation solution.
John holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT. He has spoken at a variety of security conferences including RSA, FS-ISAC, Aviation ISAC, NCFTA Disruption, and the Microsoft Digital Crimes Consortium.
Cloning Attacker Tradecraft: Why AI Pentesting is Becoming Essential – Ido Geffen – RSAC26 #1
Ido Geffen is the CEO and co-founder of Novee, the leader in AI-powered penetration testing. He brings over 20 years of experience across offensive and defensive cybersecurity, including nation-scale operations, vulnerability exploitation, and defense.
Through his work on national defense, he and fellow Novee co-founders Gon Chalamish and Omer Ninburg saw enterprises facing an impossible challenge: deploying code continuously while testing security only quarterly, even as attackers operate 24/7 with AI-powered tools. They founded Novee in May 2025 to clone their combined expertise into an agent that runs continuously, finding zero-days, business logic flaws, and complex attack chains that traditional tools miss.