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The SANS Government Forum 2026, presented in partnership with Carahsoft, brings together Federal, State and Local cybersecurity leaders to address today’s most pressing security challenges. This forum is designed to help agencies strengthen mission readiness, modernize infrastructure, and improve cyber resilience through expert-led insights and real-world strategies.
Key Focus Areas
- AI and Agentic AI
- Explore how AI-driven and autonomous systems are transforming threat detection, response and decision-making
- Learn how agencies can safely operationalize AI to enhance security outcomes
- Critical Infrastructure: IT/OT
- Address the convergence of IT and operational technology environments
- Gain strategies to defend essential services against ransomware and nation-state threats
- Zero Trust and Identity Security
- Understand identity-first security architectures for hybrid and cloud environments
- Learn how to enforce least privilege and reduce identity-based risk
- Exposure Management: Threat and Attack Surface
- Discover approaches to continuously identify, prioritize and reduce cyber risk
- Improve visibility across expanding attack surfaces and complex ecosystems
Why Attend
- Gain actionable, practitioner-led insights from SANS experts and industry leaders
- Engage in real-world discussions around current government cybersecurity challenges
- Identify proven solutions to accelerate secure adoption of emerging technologies
- Walk away with strategies to defend today’s missions and prepare for evolving threats
Jul 22, 2026
Virtual / Online
The SANS Government Forum 2026, presented in partnership with Carahsoft, brings together Federal, State and Local cybersecurity leaders to address today’s most pressing security challenges. This forum is designed to help agencies strengthen mission readiness, modernize infrastructure, and improve cyber resilience through expert-led insights and real-world strategies.
Key Focus Areas
- AI and Agentic AI
- Explore how AI-driven and autonomous systems are transforming threat detection, response and decision-making
- Learn how agencies can safely operationalize AI to enhance security outcomes
- Critical Infrastructure: IT/OT
- Address the convergence of IT and operational technology environments
- Gain strategies to defend essential services against ransomware and nation-state threats
- Zero Trust and Identity Security
- Understand identity-first security architectures for hybrid and cloud environments
- Learn how to enforce least privilege and reduce identity-based risk
- Exposure Management: Threat and Attack Surface
- Discover approaches to continuously identify, prioritize and reduce cyber risk
- Improve visibility across expanding attack surfaces and complex ecosystems
Why Attend
- Gain actionable, practitioner-led insights from SANS experts and industry leaders
- Engage in real-world discussions around current government cybersecurity challenges
- Identify proven solutions to accelerate secure adoption of emerging technologies
- Walk away with strategies to defend today’s missions and prepare for evolving threats
The Department of the Air Force Information Technology and Cyberpower Training and Education Event (DAFITC) will take place in Montgomery, AL from August 24-26, 2026.
This year, thousands of Air Force peers, along with private sector leaders in the IT and cyber security field convened to network, discuss, connect, and learn about the newest and most prevailing threats to our global networks and national defense. DAFITC 2026 is expected to featured 140+ breakouts, an exhibit hall with over 200 vendor booths, and over 4,000 attendees, speakers, and exhibitors.
Attendees will hear from leading voices in the public and private sectors, hearing a range of ideas, opinions, and assessments of the current state of all things cyber as well as insights into what the keys to future success might look like.