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CDW Summit 2026: Prioritizing Cyber Resilience for the Agentic Era
Cyber resilience has always been a key component of an organization’s cybersecurity strategy. Most security teams recognize the need to contain a breach quickly and minimize the damage an attacker can do — and a speedy recovery can make a world of difference. At the CDW Summit 2026 in Dallas, experts discussed how AI is creating additional complexity around resilience. And with AI agents now taking autonomous action — sometimes, unplanned or unauthorized — it raises the stakes and forces security teams to act even faster than they have in the past.
Participants
Stephanie Hagopian, Senior Vice President of Security and Augmented Expertise and Intelligent Staffing, CDW
Jen Easterly, CEO, RSAC
Video Highlights
- CDW’s Stephanie Hagopian said she thinks the SOC analyst job is more important now than ever, and agents are helping analysts in automating the alert triage process.
- RSAC’s Jen Easterly agreed that agents are arming security teams with new tools. Agents can find the vulnerabilities, she said, “but now increasingly they can help fix them and to do that in a more automated way. They can build much more secure and resilient code than we've ever had before.”
- Easterly also said the most important thing every business leader can think about for cyber resilience is how to design their systems, build their processes and train their people to be prepared for disruption.
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