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It is widely recognized that the introduction of AI tools is a two-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity. Attackers, whether profit-driven hackers or hostile nation-states, are using AI to launch faster, wider-spread and more sophisticated attacks, including AI-generated phishing and spear phishing emails, malware capable of adapting to changes in defensive responses, and deepfakes that are very hard to detect.

State and local agencies are attractive targets, since there are many more of them and often do not have the financial or IT resources of federal agencies. 

This makes state and local agencies’ use of AI in cyber defense critical – AI tools can operate at machine speed and scale and adapt in response to evolving threats. These tools can significantly improve threat detection and intelligence by identifying anomalies and patterns signaling attacks under way; automating incident responses such as isolating compromised devices and resetting credentials; using Natural Language Processing (NLP) to flag sophisticated phishing and social engineering attacks; and prioritizing vulnerabilities to emphasize the most critical risks. 

Learning Objectives:

• Identify available AI tools to determine which best fit the security needs of your agency
• Review ways to integrate AI cybersecurity into existing defenses
• Understand the nature and magnitude of the threats posed by AI-empowered attacks

The agentic AI era is here. Your security strategy needs to evolve with it.

Organizations are rapidly deploying generative AI, autonomous agents, and machine-driven workflows across every corner of the enterprise. But while innovation is accelerating, governance, security, and risk management are struggling to keep pace. 

The Cybersecurity Implications of AI Summit brings together CISOs, security architects, AI leaders, and practitioners for a day of candid discussion, practical frameworks, and real-world lessons on securing AI adoption at scale. From governing autonomous agents and protecting AI supply chains to rethinking identity, access, detection, and response in an agent-driven world, the agenda focuses on the challenges security leaders are actively confronting today.

No AI hype. No theoretical futures. Just actionable insights from practitioners, security innovators, and industry experts helping organizations build resilient, secure, and trustworthy AI programs in an era of unprecedented technological change.

Join more than 2,000 intelligence, defense, and national security professionals on August 26-27 for the 13th annual AFCEA/INSA Intelligence and National Security Summit. 

Co-hosted by AFCEA and INSA, the nation’s leading non-profits dedicated to public-private partnership, the summit brings together leaders from government, academia, and industry for two days of mission-focused discussion. From plenaries and ignite rounds to an exhibit hall featuring the latest IC innovations, the program fosters genuine collaboration across the community. 

Because we are non-profit organizations, your registration and sponsorship do more than fund an event; they directly support the professional workforce and the mission-critical initiatives we lead year-round!

In a time of rapid change spurred by AI, the federal conversation about cybersecurity is becoming less about individual technologies or modalities and more about operational effectiveness. Agencies have invested heavily in cybersecurity, yet many still struggle to answer critical questions quickly enough to reduce risk.

Meanwhile, security tools have multiplied faster than agencies’ ability to make coordinated trust decisions. The technology stack has evolved, but security decisions haven’t. Common frustrations include tools that don’t work together the way agencies’ missions do; more data available than ever but less confidence in making decisions; and security decisions that require too much manual coordination across disconnected systems.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify ways to make trust dynamic – responding in real time to real threats – rather than assume trust
• Outline methods to enable AI without creating security blind spots
• Review steps you can take to make faster, more confident security decisions for your agency, such as network segmentation/microsegmentation, using AI to control traffic flow to prevent data loss

The Center for Digital Government is excited to host our annual dinner and recognize our Digital States Survey award winners at the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Annual Summit in San Diego!

This is a great evening to recognize the extraordinary accomplishments of states in their use of digital technologies to better serve their constituents. These are the results of our 2026 Digital States survey findings.

The dinner and awards ceremony will be Sunday, September 27 immediately following the NASCIO opening reception.

Come join us to celebrate! Stay tuned for more information!

This is an invitation-only event.

The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference connects the best thinkers in higher education technology.

This is THE event where professionals and technology providers from around the world gather to network, share ideas, grow professionally, and discover solutions to today’s challenges. It’s the largest gathering of your peers…people you can relate to, learn from, and stay connected to throughout the year.

All of DFIR. One Event.

Digital Forensics | Incident Response | Ransomware | Threat Hunting

The SANS DFIR Summit & Training is back—in a new city, a new season, and with our most in-depth program yet.

This year, the Summit has expanded to tackle today’s most challenging DFIR topics—from core digital forensics and incident response to focused deep dives in threat hunting and ransomware—through expert-led talks, open-source tool sessions, and more hands-on opportunities than ever before.

If staying sharp on the latest research, tools, and investigative tradecraft matters to you, this is where you need to be.

Summit: Oct 15-16 | Training: Oct 17-22

SANS 2026 DFIR Summit Solutions Track delivers a deep technical exploration of the tools, methodologies, and operational models driving next-generation digital forensics and incident response. Sessions focus on advanced evidence acquisition, host and network artifact analysis, memory forensics, cloud-native IR workflows, and the application of machine learning to accelerate triage and attribution. 

 Attendees will learn how to operationalize automation, standardize investigative pipelines, and integrate DFIR technologies into high-scale, distributed environments to improve precision, reduce dwell time, and harden enterprise response capabilities.

 What to Expect

• Technical walkthroughs of emerging DFIR tooling—including endpoint telemetry pipelines, memory forensics frameworks, malware analysis sandboxes, and automated evidence extraction workflows.
• Deep-dive case studies detailing attacker tradecraft, artifact correlation strategies, cross-host timeline reconstruction, and cloud IR techniques across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Practical guidance and reference architectures for building scalable DFIR environments with automated triage, standardized enrichment, and integrated SOAR/EDR workflows.

Who Should Attend

• DFIR practitioners, digital forensic examiners, threat hunters, and reverse engineers seeking advanced, tool-focused investigative techniques.
• Incident response leads and SOC engineers responsible for building automated triage pipelines, forensic readiness strategies, and high-throughput investigation environments.
• Security architects and platform engineers integrating DFIR telemetry, EDR/XDR data, and cloud-native artifacts into centralized analysis and response systems.
• Organizations evaluating next-gen DFIR platforms, scaling IR operations, or adopting automation and ML-driven investigative workflows.

The need for this summit has never been more urgent. Four major Chinese state-sponsored APT groups—Volt Typhoon, Salt Typhoon, Flax Typhoon, and Brass Typhoon—are already targeting and embedding themselves inside U.S. critical infrastructure networks. With over 80% of critical infrastructure privately owned, cyber threats in these sectors pose national risks, and defending them requires unified, real-time collaboration between sectors, private companies and federal, state, and local governments.

Billington will once again bring together the most senior leaders across government, industry, and investment to discuss ways to strengthen defenses, build resilience, and deter adversaries who fully understand how a single weakness can cascade across the entire economy.

When and where will the Billington Critical Infrastructure CyberSecurity Summit take place?

November 17–18, 2026
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
900 E. Market Street
San Antonio, Texas 78205

San Antonio—home to Sixteenth Air Force (Air Forces Cyber), NSA Texas, the landmark Texas Cyber Command, and a growing ecosystem of critical infrastructure innovators—provides the ideal backdrop for this high-stakes gathering.

What is the theme/purpose of the event?

Securing Lifeline Sectors
Energy • Communications • Transport • Water

The interdependencies of these four sectors shape the stability of every government agency, industry, and community. A disruption in any one sector, likewise, can produce cascading effects across the entire critical infrastructure ecosystem.

This summit is designed for those who refuse to wait for that moment to arrive.

Who should attend?

• High Level CI Industry Practitioners: CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, CSOs, OT Leaders, Analysts, Engineers, etc.
• Solutions Providers and Industry Partners: CISOs, CIOs, Public Sector Leaders, CI Sector BD Leaders
• Federal Government Senior Practitioners: CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, CSOs, etc.
• Military Senior Leaders: Local and National military cyber command leadership
• State and Local Senior Practitioners: CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, CSOs, etc.
• Media: Mainstream outlets, Cyber and CI trade press
• Academia and Other

Are there citizenship requirements for Summit registration?

Yes. Billington CyberSecurity Summits are only open to citizens of the United States and citizens of US Allied Nations. Confirmation of citizenship status is required during registration and corresponding government-issued photo identification will be required onsite prior to entry. Please visit our Citizenship Requirements page for details.

AFCEA DC is pleased to bring you our 50th Annual Winter Gala, which will be hosted again at the iconic National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

We have an exciting lineup of experiences featuring the beautiful colors and ambiance of the Northern Lights planned at this year’s event. Join the who’s who in the federal IT community in enjoying all-new immersive experiences and sensory delights for your eyes, ears, and taste buds.

Combining classic elegance with modern luxury, the Winter Gala brings together more than 1,400 senior leaders from the Department of War, Intelligence Agencies, Federal IT community, and Industry together to network and welcome the holiday season in style—all while giving back to the community. We hope you will join us!

TechNet Augusta 2026 gives participants the opportunity to examine and explore the intricacies of the cyber domain. With assistance from the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence and industry experts, the conference is designed to open the lines of communication and facilitate networking, education and problem solving. Leaders and operators also discuss procurement challenges the military, government and industry face during a time of uncertain budgets and runaway technology advances.

Join more than 2,000 intelligence, defense, and national security professionals on August 26-27 for the 13th annual AFCEA/INSA Intelligence and National Security Summit. 

Co-hosted by AFCEA and INSA, the nation’s leading non-profits dedicated to public-private partnership, the summit brings together leaders from government, academia, and industry for two days of mission-focused discussion. From plenaries and ignite rounds to an exhibit hall featuring the latest IC innovations, the program fosters genuine collaboration across the community. 

Because we are non-profit organizations, your registration and sponsorship do more than fund an event; they directly support the professional workforce and the mission-critical initiatives we lead year-round!

Registration information will become available during Summer 2026. 

TechNet Indo-Pacific is the largest strategic event of its kind in the Indo-Pacific Rim. USINDOPACOM works closely with partners to enable resilient, survivable and secure collaboration across the spectrum of contingencies. TechNet Indo-Pacific, now in its 41st year, features speakers and discussions, many qualifying for Continuing Education, on how industry, academia and government can address and solve regional challenges. Exhibitors demonstrate solutions and services to meet the military services' requirements. TechNet Indo-Pacific is co-sponsored by AFCEA International and AFCEA Hawaii.

Registration is not yet available. Check back in the Fall of 2026.

Sea Service leaders today confront profound and rapidly changing threats in a landscape of increasingly complex challenges. Join us and engage with leaders from the Navy, Marine Corps and the Coast Guard as well as industry and academia experts in this extraordinary opportunity to explore the depths of the unique issues they confront. Engage in discussions, network with peers and be a part of devising the needed solutions to enhance operational capabilities that overcome evolving threats. Gain knowledge and forge connections while discovering the latest platforms, cutting-edge technologies and advanced capabilities crucial to supporting maritime operations.