Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026

revel8 at Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026

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The revel8 team attended the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026 from September 22-24 at ExCeL London. Gartner's European flagship event brought together CISOs, cybersecurity leaders, Gartner analysts and service providers to discuss how organizations can stay secure in the face of increasingly complex and evolving cyberthreats.

Key takeaways

• AI risk was the dominant theme: security leaders are looking for ways to secure what AI can do inside their organizations.
• Attackers increasingly use AI, OSINT and deepfakes to make social engineering more convincing and harder to detect.
• Multi-channel attacks across email, phone and messaging apps are becoming the norm rather than the exception.
• The human layer remains one of the biggest risk factors, and one that needs to be measured, not just trained.
• Organizations are shifting from annual awareness training to continuous, realistic simulations that build lasting behavior change.