RSA 2026: Leading the way to secure agentic AI

Every year, security and tech leaders come to the RSA conference in San Francisco to take the industry’s pulse, and every RSAC tends to be dominated by a single, overarching theme. Last year, the theme was: “AI agents are coming, and governance isn’t ready.” And sure enough, the theme of RSAC 2026 was: “AI agents are here, and governance needs to catch up.” Throughout the conference, security practitioners, vendors, and analysts were all asking the same questions: How can we enable a culture of agentic AI builders, without compromising on bedrock security principles? How can we mitigate the…