All 2027 Conference Sessions

Gartner Cybersecurity & Risk Management Summit 2027 explores key cybersecurity and risk topics, including AI governance, strategy and innovation, risk management, and cloud and data security, to help you address your organization’s mission-critical challenges.

2027 Conference Theme

Accelerate Value. Deliver Intelligently.

To lead in the digital era, organizations must accelerate value and deliver intelligently. This event is designed as a rallying call and a roadmap for future-ready IT infrastructure and operations leaders. This is your invitation to dive deep into value-centric transformation, data-driven intelligence, strategic AI enablement and human empowerment to ensure that you, your teams and your technology thrive alongside one another. Stop just managing infrastructure — accelerate value and deliver intelligently.

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind.

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Monday, 15 March, 2027

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AEDT

Frontier AI Models Demand a Defense-in-Depth Approach to Vulnerability and Exposure Management
Craig Lawson, VP Analyst, Gartner
Frontier AI has revolutionized vulnerability discovery. Static "patch-only" strategies are ineffective. Cybersecurity leaders must adopt a "compensate first, patch as fast as you can, but as slow as you have to" mindset, utilizing defense-in-depth controls to manage exposure and risk of breaches. ... Show More Show Less

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM AEDT

Outlook for Cybersecurity Threats: Prioritizing With Gartner's 2027 ThreatScape
John Watts, VP Analyst, Gartner
The cybersecurity threat landscape is a moving target. Organizations cannot address all threats due to resource limitations and need proven ways to prioritize their investments. Gartner's updated ThreatScape for 2026-27 enables organizations to optimize their prediction and prevention, enhance detections, and prepare for new and emerging threats. ... Show More Show Less

03:45 PM - 04:15 PM AEDT

We Can't Patch Our Way Out of Threat Exposure Debt
Craig Lawson, VP Analyst, Gartner
Patch management is a topic of interest for Gartner clients. However, approaches for prioritizing remediation have been lagging for some time. This session offers insights and approaches that assist in updating and adapting vulnerability prioritization, and in building support and collaboration from information security partners. ... Show More Show Less
Tuesday, 16 March, 2027

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM AEDT

Ask the Analyst: Technical Insights: Beyond Vulnerabilities: Preparing for Exposure Assessment Adoption
Steve Santos, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
New capabilities are available that incorporate past VM capabilities and provide additional context to better articulate exposure risk. This session will provide a forum to disuses what are those capabilities, and what should be considered for unique environments and pitfalls. ... Show More Show Less

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM AEDT

SOC of the Future: Building the Foundations for AI Readiness
Eric Ahlm, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Build the SOC of the future takes transformation. Simply adding AI on to a modern SOC will fall short of creating machine speeds responses to AI driven attackers. This presentation lays out a vision of the soc of the future, and the foundations required for true AI readiness in security operations. ... Show More Show Less

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM AEDT

How to Negotiate Security and Risk Into Technology Vendor Contracts
Luke Ellery, VP Analyst, Gartner
CISOs are increasingly responsible for negotiating security services and subscriptions for their function, or are called on by procurement and business leaders to opine over security-specific clauses in business-critical agreements. This session will outline Gartner's position on the top risk and security clauses that must be addressed to ensure business resiliency and regulatory compliance for your organization and some negotiation tactics to improve the likelihood of success. ... Show More Show Less

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM AEDT

Ransomware Reloaded: How AI Is Reshaping the Threat and the Defense
Eric Grenier, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
As AI rapidly advances, it is transforming the ransomware landscape, empowering both attackers and defenders. This session explores how threat actors use AI to accelerate the success of their cyberattacks, while security leaders turn to AI tools for faster detection and response. Explore the evolving AI-powered threat environment and provides actionable insights on adapting defenses, updating playbooks and preparing for the next generation of intelligent cyber extortion. ... Show More Show Less

04:15 PM - 04:45 PM AEDT

"Use AI Like a Threat Actor" and Other Strategies for AI in Cyber Defense
Craig Porter, Director Analyst, Gartner
Join us for this session as we discuss how you can use AI in the way APTs are using it, for shortening the times for living-off-the-land hacking from weeks and months to hours and days. We will provide the full stratagem for this, as well as several others, including ways to wire cyber business intelligence into your SOC using AI. ... Show More Show Less

04:15 PM - 04:45 PM AEDT

Building a 5-Year SIEM Strategy in an Agentic Age
Eric Ahlm, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The SIEM market is overflowing with changes both in requirements from buyers, and innovations from providers. This presentation outlines the major changes in the SIEM market for 2027 including the two new market options Security Data Lakes and Integrated Security Operations (ISOC) solution. It also provides the insights buyers need to know to build their 5 year SIEM strategy in today's environment. ... Show More Show Less

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“Quality presentations with incisive and interesting topics. Would recommend to cyber and risk professionals alike.”

Craig Thompson
IT Risk Manager, Hollard

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