RSAC 2026 Day 3: AI in SOC, Cyber Trends & The Truth About Agentic AI – RSAC26 #3
Beyond the Audit: Making Cyber Risk Continuous, Quantified, and Actionable – Travis Wong – RSAC26 #3
Travis Wong is the VP of Customer Engagement at Resilience. He leads the Security and Risk Services and Customer Success teams and brings over 15 years of experience in risk management consulting, helping clients assess, measure, and manage their risk effectively.
Trends Revealed in Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report – Aamir Lakhani – RSAC26 #3
Aamir Lakhani is a cybersecurity researcher and practitioner with Fortinet and FortiGuard Labs, with over 15 years of experience in the security industry. He is responsible for providing IT security solutions to major commercial and federal enterprise organizations. Lakhani is considered an industry leader in support of detailed architectural engagement and projects on topics related to cyber deference, mobile application threats, malware and advanced persistent threat (APT) research. Previously, Lakhani designed cyber solutions for defense intelligence agencies, and has assisted organizations in defending themselves from active strive-back perpetrated by underground cyber groups. Lakhani’s areas of expertise include FortiGuard, fundamentals of network protection, cyber defense, mobile application threats, malware and APT research.
Securing AI Agents: Managing Runtime Risk in Enterprise AI Systems – Jimmy White – RSAC26 #3
Jimmy White is a technology and AI leader focused on building secure, scalable platforms at the intersection of AI, infrastructure and cybersecurity. He currently drives AI and engineering strategy at F5, where he’s leading efforts to secure AI systems and modern application environments. Previously, he served as Chief Technology Officer and President at CalypsoAI, helping scale the company’s AI security capabilities, and has held senior engineering and security leadership roles at organizations including Qualtrics and FireEye/Mandiant. With many years of experience across software, security, and high-growth product teams, Jimmy is passionate about translating emerging AI innovation into practical, enterprise-ready solutions.
Why Passkeys Are Ready for Prime Time in Modern Banking – Ashish Jain – RSAC26 #3
Ashish Jain is OneSpan’s Chief Technology Officer. Widely regarded as one of the top digital identity experts in the industry, Ashish brings over two decades of experience leading product management, engineering, and operations teams at global organizations. He most recently served as Chief Product Officer at Arkose Labs, an enterprise fraud management and account security company where he led the development of the platform to help address consumer fraud and identity challenges for many Fortune 1000 companies. Prior to his role at Arkose Labs, Ashish served as Head of Identity at eBay, where he led the global engineering team to build the identity, risk, and trust platform to support onboarding, authentication, KYC, fraud, and abuse protection for 180+ million eBay customers and third-party developers. Before joining eBay, Ashish was Vice President of Workspace ONE at VMware, where he spearheaded the development and patenting of a solution that integrated identity and mobile device management, one of the core tenets of Zero Trust Security.
How AI-Driven Development is Reshaping the Application Risk Landscape – Idan Plotnik – RSAC26 #3
Idan is a serial entrepreneur and product strategist, bringing to Apiiro nearly 20 years of experience in cybersecurity. Previously, Idan was Director of Engineering at Microsoft following the acquisition of Aorato where he served as the founder and CEO.
Mind the Gap: Confidence, AI, and the Future of Exposure Management – Chris Wallis – RSAC26 #3
Chris Wallis is the founder and CEO of Intruder. With deep experience in both offensive security and defensive operations, Chris has worked hands-on with global banks, major financial institutions, and critical national infrastructure, securing some of the most targeted and high-risk environments in the world. This blend of attacker-led insight and real-world defense crafted Intruder’s practical approach to finding and fixing the vulnerabilities that matter before they can be exploited.
Why More Technology Hasn’t Made Us More Secure – John Anthony Smith – RSAC26 #3
John Anthony Smith, Founder and Chief Security Officer of Fenix24, is a leading information security expert with deep cybersecurity experience in healthcare, financial services, and legal industries. He has overseen infrastructure for over 400 companies and currently serves as a vCIO and trusted advisor to companies worldwide. With more than 16 years of breach response experience, he is a staunch advocate for tougher sanctions on nations harboring cybercriminals and is dedicated to locating, investigating, and prosecuting cybercriminals.
No Device, No Access: The Future of Zero Trust Security – Rob Allen – RSAC26 #3
Rob Allen, Chief Product Officer of ThreatLocker, is an IT Professional with three decades of experience assisting small and medium enterprises embrace and utilize technology. He has spent the majority of this time working for an Irish-based MSP, which has given him invaluable insights into the challenges faced by businesses today. Rob’s background is technical – first as a system administrator, then as a technician and an engineer. His broad technical knowledge, as well as an innate understanding of customers’ needs, made him a trusted advisor for hundreds of businesses across a wide variety of industries. Rob has been at the coalface, assisting clients in remediating the effects of, and helping them recover from cyber and ransomware attacks.
Beyond IOCs: A Framework for High-Impact Cyber Threat Intelligence – Samuel Hassine – RSAC26 #3
Former Head of Cyber Threat Intelligence at the French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) and Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Tanium, Samuel Hassine is the CEO and the co-founder of Filigran, a fast-growing European CyberTech developing cutting-edge solutions for cyber threat management.
The Agentic SOC: Autonomous AI Analysts at Machine Speed – Edward Wu – RSAC26 #3
Edward Wu is the founder & CEO of Dropzone AI, creator of the world’s first autonomous AI SOC analyst that force-multiplies cybersecurity teams with armies of AI agents. Previously, Edward spent eight years at ExtraHop Networks, leading AI/ML and detection engineering and developing behavioral network attack detection. He also worked on automated binary analysis and software defenses at the University of Washington, Seattle, and UC Berkeley. Edward holds 30+ patents in applied AI for cybersecurity and is a contributor to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The Guardrails are Gone: The Onus for AI Security Is On the Enterprise – Marc Manzano – RSAC26 #3
Dr. Marc Manzano leads the cybersecurity group at Sandbox. His current research interests include post-quantum cryptography, lightweight cryptography, fully-homomorphic encryption, the intersection between machine learning and cryptanalysis, performance optimizations of cryptographic implementations on a wide range of architectures, and quantum algorithms. Manzano holds a Ph.D. in Computers Network Security, which he earned under the supervision of the University of Girona (Spain) and Kansas State University (United States). He earned an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Girona (Spain), while he did research stays at UC3M (Spain) and at DTU (Denmark). He initiated his research career while finalizing his BSc in Computer Engineering at Strathclyde University (UK).
Over the past ten years, Manzano has led the development of many secure cryptographic libraries and protocols. Manzano was formerly a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, and before that, he was the Vice President of the Cryptography Research Centre at the Technology Innovation Institute, a UAE-based scientific research center. Prior to that, he held several positions where he was responsible for implementing pivotal cryptographic components of a variety of secure communication products, including an electronic voting platform.
Multi-Channel Impersonation: Why Legacy Controls Are Failing – Bobby Ford – RSAC26 #3
Bobby Ford is the Chief Strategy and Experience Officer at Doppel, an AI-native social engineering defense platform backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and a16z. A globally recognized cybersecurity leader, Bobby has nearly 30 years of experience and has served as CISO for Abbott Laboratories, Unilever, Exelis, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Since joining Doppel in July, Bobby has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s strategy during a defining period of expansion and innovation.
Hard Truths: The Lies We Keep Buying in Cybersecurity – Andrew Rubin – RSAC26 #3
As Founder, CEO, and Board Member of Illumio, Andrew is responsible for the overall strategy and vision of the company. With deep expertise in Zero Trust, segmentation, network security, and regulatory and compliance management, Andrew is the Executive Sponsor of many of Illumio’s largest customers worldwide, including Citi, HSBC, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Andrew frequently participates in panels, articles, and podcasts for leading industry events and publications. Andrew was named to Goldman Sachs’ “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” seven times as part of its Builders & Innovators program and received Ernst & Young’s Bay Area Entrepreneur of the Year 2024.
Andrew serves as a Board Member of Emigrant Bank, as well as an advisor to several cyber and technology start-ups, and is an active angel investor. Andrew graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BSBA in Finance, and he is both a guest lecturer on entrepreneurship and a National Council member of the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the university.
