RMISC 2026 Recap: Twenty Years In — Who's Holding the Leash?
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The episode recaps the key themes from the 20th anniversary of the Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference, focusing on AI regulation and cybersecurity challenges.
The Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference just celebrated its 20th anniversary in Denver — and the anniversary edition told us exactly where the industry's head is at. In this quick-hit recap, Matt Durrin and Todd Stewart break down the biggest themes from three days at the Colorado Convention Center: agentic AI moving into the SOC (and the “circuit breaker” conversation about how to rein it in), state-level AI regulation getting real with the Colorado AI Act and updated CCPA audit rules, and deepfake extortion graduating from awareness slides to full tabletop simulations — including LMG's own hands-on deepfake extortion lab from the conference floor. Plus: post-quantum jitters, CMMC 2.0 lessons from the assessment trenches, the 31% attrition problem, and five actionable takeaways for IT and security leaders. Key Takeaways for Leaders 1. Put a leash on your AI agents before they need one. If you're deploying agentic AI in the SOC or business workflows, define kill switches, escalation thresholds, and human-approval gates now. The circuit-breaker conversation at RMISC made clear that rollback plans are being written after incidents, not before. 2. Inventory your shadow…
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