Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026 London: Day 1 Highlights

We are bringing you news and highlights from the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, taking place this week in London. Below is a collection of key announcements and insights coming out of the conference.

On Day 1 of the conference, we are highlighting the opening keynote, exploring why public sector AI investments often fail to deliver ROI and highlighting the outlook for cybersecurity threats. Be sure to check this page throughout the day for updates.

Presented by Christopher Mixter, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner

CISOs must rethink how they lead security, identity, and innovation as AI accelerates both opportunity and disruption. In the opening keynote, Christopher Mixter, VP Analyst at Gartner, explored four opportunities for chief information security officers to improve the effectiveness of their cybersecurity programs.

• Is Dark AI The Apocalypse or Just Brilliant Marketing? “Frontier AI models do present dangers, but they also create advantages for cybersecurity teams over the attackers. Ignore the vendor/media doom-hype and show your executives that you are the right leader for this moment.”

• Enterprise Investment in AI to Modernize IAM: “As customer, constituent, and supplier interactions become increasingly agent or even just machine based, position IAM modernization as an opportunity to show how IAM can be an accelerant in your company.”

• Normalization of Cyberattacks to Redefine How We Win: “Cyberattacks have become a normalized feature of modern business. Resilience, not prevention, is the strategy organizations can use to win.”

• Set Your Cybersecurity Team Up as World Class Innovators: “Measure cybersecurity innovation. Share and recognize it to help adapt, optimize, become more agile, or increase the scalability of your team. Use the enterprise rush to AI to recommit cybersecurity’s culture of solution-building.”

Journalists can receive additional information and/or request an interview with Christopher Mixter by contacting Laurence Goasduff at laurence.goasduff@gartner.com.