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  • Saturday, October 24, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop Breakfast
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: AI Security Leader: Organizational Management​ (2-Day, Part 1)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: Creating a Zero Trust Roadmap (2-Day, Part 1)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: From Breach to Evidence: Applying Digital Forensics Across Modern Incident Response (1-Day)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: From Zero to Security Bot: Building and Hardening an AI-Powered Code Review Pipeline (2-Day, Part 1)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: Securing AI: Cybersecurity Strategy (2-Day, Part 1)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: Security Findings That Actually Get Fixed (1-Day)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: Transforming Cyber Leadership (2-Day, Part 1)
  • Sunday, October 25, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop Breakfast
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: AI Security Leader: Organizational Management​ (2-Day, Part 2)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: Creating a Zero Trust Roadmap (2-Day, Part 2)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: From Breach to Evidence: Applying Digital Forensics Across Modern Incident Response (1-Day)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: From Zero to Security Bot: Building and Hardening an AI-Powered Code Review Pipeline (2-Day, Part 2)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: Securing AI: Cybersecurity Strategy (2-Day, Part 2)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: Security Findings That Actually Get Fixed (1 Day)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Pre-Conference Workshop: Transforming Cyber Leadership (2-Day, Part 2)
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM MT
    Expo Hall Hours
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM MT
    Mix, Meet and Mingle Networking Reception
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM MT
    Women's Reception
  • Monday, October 26, 2026
  • 6:30 AM - 8:00 AM MT
    Breakfast
  • 8:00 AM - 8:35 AM MT
    ISC2 Security Congress 2026 Welcome & Opening Address
  • 8:35 AM - 9:25 AM MT
    Opening Keynote: Freakyclown and Dr. Jessica Barker
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM MT
    Expo Hall Hours
  • 9:25 AM - 10:10 AM MT
    Expo Hall Break
  • 9:35 AM - 10:05 AM MT
    Career Center Forum: Beyond the Skills Gap: The Cybersecurity Hiring Catch-22
  • 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM MT
    ACTion Room: Setting Standards in a Turbulent Cyber Landscape
  • 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM MT
    Behind the Boardroom Door: Evolving the CISO Role in the Age of AI
  • 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM MT
    Beyond the CIA Triad
  • 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM MT
    Bright Ideas Roundtable: Communicating Cyber Beyond the Bytes
  • 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM MT
    Detecting and Responding to an Insider Attack at a Fortune 500 Company
  • 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM MT
    Is Your AI Code Assistant Generating Badly Behaving Code? Strategic Testing Can Help Decide
  • 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM MT
    The Special Ops Edge: Applying Military-Grade Decision-Making to Battle-Ready Cyber AI, Agentic and Autonomous Systems
  • 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM MT
    ACTion Room: Rethinking Workforce Metrics in Cybersecurity
  • 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM MT
    Beyond the Bot: Scaling Cloud Governance with AI-Augmented Policy as Code
  • 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM MT
    Conversations with Criminals: What Criminals Taught Us About Building Better Incident Response
  • 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM MT
    Framework to Function: Moving from Static Compliance to Continuous Risk and Resilience (RMF to CSRMC)
  • 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM MT
    Protecting Your Mental Health Against Burnout
  • 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM MT
    Tabletop/Gamified: When Approved AI Goes Off-Scope: An Executive Tabletop on Governance Drift and Third-Party Risk
  • 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM MT
    When the Supply Chain Bites Back: npm-supply-chain-attack, shai-hulud and the Attribution Problem Nobody Talks About
  • 12:20 PM - 1:35 PM MT
    Expo Hall Break
  • 12:20 PM - 1:35 PM MT
    Lunch
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM MT
    ACTion Room: Code of Professional Conduct in Practice
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM MT
    Bright Ideas Roundtable: A Conceptual Framework for Authentication in Agentic AI Ecosystems: Protocol Analysis and Taxonomy
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM MT
    Busting Certification Myths: Build a Career‑Aligned Exam Game Plan That Actually Works
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM MT
    Implementing Zero Trust to Secure Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Enterprises
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM MT
    Synthetic Insiders: The New AI Risk to Your Org
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM MT
    Your Next Insurance Renewal Is An AI Audit: What do Underwriters Want? What’s Actually Covered?
  • 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM MT
    Expo Hall Break
  • 3:55 PM - 4:25 PM MT
    Career Center Forum: Should I Stay or Should I Go: Using the MOVE Framework for Career Decisions
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM MT
    A Quantum Cybersecurity Platform to Protect Organizations that You Can Use Today
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM MT
    ACTion Room: Connecting the Dots to Shape the Profession: Portfolio, Practice, and the Path to Influence
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM MT
    AI Doesn’t Forget: The Privacy and Governance Risks Hiding in Plain Sight
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM MT
    AI Pentesting: Reimagining the DevSecOps Stack
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM MT
    Continuous Threat Exposure Management:(CTEM) - Replacing the Scan-and-Patch Mentality
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM MT
    Tabletop/Gamified: From Intent to Enforcement: Agentic Kubernetes Guardrails with Quarantine Mode
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM MT
    Twice Redundant, Doubly Resilient: Building the Incident Response Plan for Your Cyber Career
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM MT
    Monday Night Reception
  • Tuesday, October 27, 2026
  • 6:30 AM - 8:00 AM MT
    Breakfast
  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM MT
    Keynote: Chris Voss + ISC2 Global Achievement Awards Announcement
  • 9:00 AM - 7:30 PM MT
    Expo Hall Hours
  • 9:25 AM - 10:25 AM MT
    ACTion Room: Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop Defended: The National Security Considerations of the Water Sector’s Cybersecurity Investments
  • 9:25 AM - 10:25 AM MT
    Closing the Intent Gap in Agentic AI Security
  • 9:25 AM - 10:25 AM MT
    From NSA to SMB: Threat Modeling When Resources Don't Match the Threat
  • 9:25 AM - 10:25 AM MT
    HeapSpy: Breaking Container Isolation Through Kernel Memory Allocator Side Channels
  • 9:25 AM - 10:25 AM MT
    Root To CISO: Leading the Future of Cybersecurity
  • 9:25 AM - 10:25 AM MT
    Tabletop/Gamified: Running the Go‑Live Gate: Operational Readiness Reviews as a Security Control
  • 9:25 AM - 10:25 AM MT
    When AI Context Leaks: Security and Privacy Risks in MCP
  • 9:25 AM - 11:25 AM MT
    AI Incident Room: AI-Driven Data Classification Failure and Impact​
  • 9:25 AM - 11:25 AM MT
    AI Incident Room: Third-Party AI Vendor Introduces Hidden Risk​
  • 10:10 AM - 12:10 PM MT
    From 'That's Weird' to 'I'm a Target': A Real-World Lesson in Operational Security (OPSEC)
  • 10:25 AM - 11:10 AM MT
    Book Signing, Chris Voss: "Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It"
  • 10:35 AM - 11:05 AM MT
    Career Center Forum: The CISO Path Is Not Linear: What Future Security Leaders Need Before the Title
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM MT
    ACTion Room: A Digital City on a Hill: Building the Cyber Future We Want
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM MT
    Cyber-Enabled Fraud and Deepfakes: Defending Trust as a Core Security Function
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM MT
    ISC2 Board of Directors Governance Session
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM MT
    Mapping the Data Abyss: Conquering CCPA's Cybersecurity Audit Requirements
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM MT
    Prompt to Promotion: Using AI to Advance Your Cyber Career
  • 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM MT
    Tabletop/Gamified: From Alert to Action: An Interactive Simulation as a Security Analyst
  • 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM MT
    Lunch
  • 1:25 PM - 2:50 PM MT
    ISC2 Town Hall + ISC2 Global Achievement Awards Announcement
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    73 Fraud Cases Later: Building Agentic AI Defense from Real Attack Data
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    Beyond the User: Architecting for Non-Human Identity in Agentic Clouds
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    Bright Ideas Roundtable: From Tool to Actor: Governing Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Agents
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    Cost Center to Competitive Advantage: Making Cyber Resilience a Business Driver
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    ISO/IEC 42001 and the OpenClaw Phenomenon: Human-in-the-Loop AI Governance That Actually Works
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    Packet Loss in Your Career? Diagnosing Stalls and Pivots in Cybersecurity
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM MT
    Who Writes the Bug, Who Finds the Bug? Human-AI Security Lessons from Open Source
  • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM MT
    AI Incident Room: AI-Driven Threat Detection Failure and Control Correction​
  • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM MT
    AI Incident Room: Shadow AI Proliferation Across the Organization​
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM MT
    Expo Hall Break
  • 4:10 PM - 4:40 PM MT
    Career Center Forum: AI Security Is the Next Cybersecurity — Are Women Ready to Lead It?
  • 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM MT
    AI ‘Big Shift’ in Cybersecurity Careers: 30 New Roles and Next Five Years in Security
  • 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM MT
    Harvest Now, Re-Identify Later: Quantum Computing and the Architecture of Identity
  • 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM MT
    Managing Fourth-party Risk Without a Playbook
  • 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM MT
    Operationalizing Today’s Threat Priorities Through Public-Private Partnership
  • 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM MT
    Tabletop/Gamified: From Fuzzing to Artificial Intelligence: How API Gateway Defenses Must Evolve
  • 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM MT
    The Invisible Workforce: How Non-Human Identities Are Breached and How to Defend and Govern Them
  • 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM MT
    When Innovation Outpaces Oversight: Securing the Future with Humans + Machines
  • 5:45 PM - 7:30 PM MT
    Congress Connections Expo Hall Reception
  • Wednesday, October 28, 2026
  • 6:30 AM - 8:00 AM MT
    Breakfast
  • 8:15 AM - 9:25 AM MT
    Keynote: Kemba Walden + ISC2 Global Achievement Awards Announcement
  • 9:35 AM - 10:35 AM MT
    Air-Gapped to Austere: Zero Trust Patterns for LLM Deployment at Every Scale
  • 9:35 AM - 10:35 AM MT
    Beyond the Prompt: A 360-Degree "Tri-Sphere" Approach to Gen AI Risk
  • 9:35 AM - 10:35 AM MT
    Claude Code as Server-Side Security Infrastructure: From Proactive Hardening to Post-Breach Forensics
  • 9:35 AM - 10:35 AM MT
    From Intel to Action
  • 9:35 AM - 10:35 AM MT
    From the Server Room to the Boardroom: Empowering Security Professionals to Drive Cyber Governance
  • 9:35 AM - 10:35 AM MT
    Where DF is my job?
  • 9:35 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Tabletop/Gamified: Ransomware Rampage: Gamifying Your Incident Response Playbook
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Beyond the Slide Deck: Building a High-Velocity Tabletop Factory
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Identity as the Control Plane for Software Supply Chain Security
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Invisible No More: Bringing ITDR into the Heart of the Private Cloud
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    Lessons Learned from Real-World Zero Trust Deployments
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    New Tools, Same Mission: Teaching Cybersecurity to the Next Workforce
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM MT
    The Agentic Accountability Gap: Governing Autonomous Artificial Intelligence in Compliance