CSO Conference & Awards 2025

As the United States enters 2026, cybersecurity stands at the intersection of AI acceleration, identity‑driven attacks, geopolitical conflict, and rising regulatory pressure. The CSO Cybersecurity Awards and Conference brings together the industry’s most influential security leaders to examine the forces reshaping digital risk, recognize organizations delivering measurable resilience, and define what modern security leadership looks like in an era where cyber threats carry economic, operational, and national security consequences.

Join fellow CISOs, senior security executives, and innovators to share insight, benchmark progress, and shape the strategies that will define cybersecurity leadership in the year ahead.

Key Themes and Focus Areas:

• AI‑Driven Security and Autonomous Defense: Exploring how agentic AI is transforming both cyber offense and defense, accelerating detection, response, and operational decision‑making.
• Identity as the Core Security Control Plane: Addressing identity compromise, zero trust execution, privilege governance, and the shift from network‑centric to identity‑centric security.
• Resilience Engineering and Ransomware Readiness: Moving beyond prevention toward recovery, continuity, and measurable resilience in the face of inevitable attacks.
• Governance, Regulation, and the Evolving CISO Role: Aligning security strategy with board oversight, regulatory expectations, and the expanded mandate of the modern security executive.