AI is both accelerating the threat landscape and redefining how enterprises defend against it. This session draws on recent Forrester research to give IT and security leaders a clear-eyed view of what is actually changing - and what to do about it.

Forrester will cover the shifting regional threat landscape and country-level risk dynamics; where cybersecurity and AI budgets are heading and why most organizations remain dangerously early in their AI maturity; practical frameworks for governing agentic and generative AI; and how leading organizations are operationalizing AI to strengthen detection, response, and resilience.

Attendees will leave with concrete recommendations for prioritizing security investments, closing the gap between AI ambition and AI readiness, and building defenses that are fit for what is coming, not just what has already happened.