RSAC 2026 Day 2: Agentic AI, Hidden Cybersecurity Trends & What’s Next – RSAC26 #2
Managing Cyber Risk as Financially Motivated Attacks Grow – Tony Anscombe – RSAC26 #2
Tony Anscombe is the Chief Security Evangelist for ESET. With over 25 years of security industry experience, Tony is an established author, blogger, and speaker on the current threat landscape, security technologies and products, data protection, privacy and trust, and Internet safety. His speaking portfolio includes industry conferences RSAC, Black Hat, VB, CTIA, MEF, Gartner Risk and Security Summit, and the Child Internet Safety Summit. He is regularly quoted in cybersecurity, technology and business media, including BBC, Dark Reading, the Guardian, the New York Times and USA Today, with broadcast appearances on Bloomberg, BBC, CTV, KRON, NBC, and CBS. Tony is a board member of NCA and previously served on the board of MEF and FOSI and held an executive position with AMTSO.
AI Agents for Vulnerability Management – Mehul Revankar – RSAC26 #2
Mehul is a seasoned Cybersecurity Product Leader with a proven track record of building award-winning products and scaling B2B SaaS and open-source solutions. With over 20 years of experience in enterprise security, he has led product, engineering, and research teams at industry leaders like Qualys, and Tenable. He is now a Co-founder at Quantro Security where he is building agentic AI solutions for Enterprise Cyber Risk Management. Where he leads Product, Sales and Marketing.
AI’s Security Inflection Point: Hybrid, Browser Security, and Data Compliance – Thyaga Vasudevan – RSAC26 #2
Thyaga Vasudevan is a high-energy software professional currently serving as the Executive Vice President, Product at Skyhigh Security, where he leads Product Management, Design, Product Marketing and GTM Strategies. With a wealth of experience, he has successfully contributed to building products in both SAAS-based Enterprise Software (Oracle, Hightail – formerly YouSendIt, WebEx, Vitalect) and Consumer Internet (Yahoo! Messenger – Voice and Video). He is dedicated to the process of identifying underlying end-user problems and use cases and takes pride in leading the specification and development of high-tech products and services to address these challenges, including helping organizations navigate the delicate balance between risks and opportunities.
The Threat Curve Has Reset: Why AI Made “Solved” Attacks Dangerous Again – Eyal Benishti – RSAC26 #2
Eyal Benishti is the CEO and Founder of IRONSCALES, pioneering the world’s first self-learning email security solution to combat advanced phishing, BEC, and account takeover attacks. With over 15 years in the software industry, Eyal has held roles as a security researcher and malware analyst at Radware and a technical lead for information security solutions at Imperva. He also held R&D positions at Comverse and Amdocs. Eyal earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from Bar-Ilan University in Israel and has been passionate about cybersecurity from a young age.
Coding Agents Are Getting More Cautious, but Not Safer – Brian Fox – RSAC26 #2
Brian Fox is CTO and co-founder of Sonatype, with more than 20 years of experience spanning software development, open source, and cybersecurity. A founder of Maven Central and former chair of the Apache Maven project, he also serves in leadership and advisory roles with OpenSSF, FINOS, Singapore’s CTREX Panel, and the Apache Software Foundation.
Autonomous Intelligence and the Future of Digital Trust – Amit Sinha – RSAC26 #2
Dr. Amit Sinha is CEO of DigiCert. Prior to DigiCert, Dr. Sinha was President of Zscaler. During his 12-year tenure, Zscaler grew from a startup to a NASDAQ-100 company and established itself as a dominant leader in enterprise security. Dr. Sinha is an independent Board Member at Zscaler and at DataRobot, an AI cloud platform company, and an advisor to several startups.
Prior to Zscaler, Dr. Sinha served as CTO for Motorola’s Enterprise Networking and Communications business, delivering Wi-Fi solutions. He was the CTO of AirDefense, a market leader in the wireless security space, leading to its successful acquisition by Motorola in 2008. Prior to AirDefense, Dr. Sinha served as Co-Founder and Chief Technologist at Engim, a Wi-Fi semiconductor company.
Dr. Sinha earned his Masters and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where he graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the President of India Gold Medal. He has authored over 25 journal/conference papers, contributed to 3 books, and is the inventor of 39 U.S. patents granted or pending.
OT: Segmented Today, Breached Tomorrow – HD Moore – RSAC26 #2
HD Moore is a pioneer of the cybersecurity industry who has dedicated his career to vulnerability research, network discovery, and software development since the 1990s. He is most recognized for creating Metasploit and is a passionate advocate for open-source software and vulnerability disclosure.
HD serves as the CEO and founder of runZero, which provides a single source of truth for exposure management across your total attack surface. Delivering in-depth visibility into every asset and exposure, runZero helps you mitigate risks faster, meet compliance requirements, and ensure you continuously discover critical insights that others miss — including unknown and unmanageable devices and elusive exposures that evade traditional tools.
Prior to founding runZero, HD held leadership positions at Atredis Partners, Rapid7, and BreakingPoint. HD has also been a frequent speaker at industry events such as Black Hat and DEF CON. HD’s professional journey began with exploring telephone networks, developing exploits for the Department of Defense, and hacking into financial institution networks.
The Missing Layer in Zero Trust: The Security Policy Control Plane – Jody Brazil – RSAC26 #2
Jody Brazil is the Founder and CEO of FireMon and the original visionary behind the Network Security Policy Management (NSPM) category. Since co-founding FireMon in 2004, Jody has been at the forefront of firewall policy and change management innovation. Following his tenure as founder of the cloud-security platform DisruptOps, he returned to lead FireMon in 2021. Today, he focuses on helping enterprises maintain a unified control plane, automating security policies across hybrid-cloud infrastructures to ensure continuous compliance and operational integrity
Breach Readiness for Measurable Risk Reduction in the Age of AI – Rajesh Khazanchi – RSAC26 #2
Rajesh Khazanchi is the CEO and Co-Founder of ColorTokens, Inc., a Bay Area cybersecurity company pioneering the global shift to Zero Trust security architectures. With over 25 years of leadership across enterprise security, cloud infrastructure, and product innovation — and 8 granted patents — he is recognized as a technology visionary who transforms bold ideas into enterprise-grade platforms that shape the future of cybersecurity.
At ColorTokens, Rajesh has advanced the company’s mission of delivering Zero Trust Microsegmentation and breach readiness at scale, building a trusted partner ecosystem with Fortune 500 enterprises, global system integrators, and managed service providers. The company’s flagship platform, Xshield, has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and GigaOm as a leader in Zero Trust MicroSegmentation. Over the last 10 years journey at ColorTokens, he also acquired two security companies – PureID and Cognore.
Previously, Rajesh held senior leadership roles at VMware, HP, and Oracle, where he drove global product innovation, large-scale enterprise adoption, and next-generation security products and solutions. These experiences gave him a unique perspective on aligning technology with business transformation — a principle that continues to anchor ColorTokens’ customer-first approach.
A recognized thought leader and innovator, Rajesh regularly engages with C-Level and Fortune 500 executives worldwide, shaping strategies that position security not just as protection, but as a strategic enabler of resilience, agility, and growth in the digital era.
How We Achieve Agentic Outcomes in CyberSecurity: The “Do-It-For-Me” Mobile Defense – Tom Tovar – RSAC26 #2
Tom Tovar is the co-creator and CEO of Appdome, a one-stop shop for mobile app defense. He’s a self-taught product creator, mobile app coder, hacker. He’s serves as product advisor on several venture funded cyber companies, and previously as executive chairman of Badgeville, an enterprise digital motivation platform acquired by CallidusCloud, in several executive positions, including CEO, of Nominum, an intelligent-DNS security and services provider that was acquired by Akamai, and chief compliance officer, and operational executive in charge of business and corporate development, legal and channel at Netscreen Technologies acquired by Juniper Networks for $5B. He began his career as a corporate and securities attorney with Cooley Godward LLP. Tovar holds a JD from Stanford Law School and a BBA in finance and accounting from the University of Houston.
Know Your AI Agents Through Visibility, Control, and Accountability – Matt Immler – RSAC26 #2
Matt Immler is the Regional Chief Security Officer for Okta in the Eastern Americas, where he leverages his Identity expertise to drive customer success. Matt’s background includes Auth0 Security and Compliance, in addition to previous roles in information security, network operations and software engineering.
Agentic AI and the Future of Threat Intelligence Operations – Sachin Jade – RSAC26 #2
Sachin Jade is Chief Product Officer at Cyware, where he leads product strategy for the company’s threat intelligence and security operations platform. His work focuses on helping organizations operationalize threat intelligence by integrating intelligence workflows directly into detection and response environments.
Sachin works with enterprises, government organizations and information sharing communities to advance automation, intelligence collaboration and the practical application of AI within security operations.
