It's officially Cybersecurity Awareness Month with the theme being ‘Stay Safe Online’ this year. It’s an important month as it helps organizations and people build awareness and serves as a reminder to follow best practices to ensure digital safety. Tune into this podcast as RSAC is joined by the National Cybersecurity Alliance team who will delve into the history and transformation of Cybersecurity Awareness Month to help boost your security awareness.

Lisa Plaggemier, Executive Director, National Cybersecurity Alliance

Cliff Steinhauer, Director, Information Security & Engagement National Cybersecurity Alliance

Tatyana Sanchez, Content & Program Coordinator, RSAC

Kacy Zurkus, Director, Content, RSAC

Organizations often spend a lot of time ensuring they're complying with cybersecurity standards and regulations, but often, accessibility standards are overlooked. Accessibility, in a sense, starts with compliance as well. However, cybersecurity vendors, platforms, and programs often don't know these standards exist, don't know the legal ramifications of not adhering to them, and don't know how to even begin to make the necessary changes. Tune into this podcast to learn how to bridge the gap between accessibility and cybersecurity.

Florian Beijers, Accessibility Expert, Dexxit

Tatyana Sanchez, Content & Program Coordinator, RSAC

Kacy Zurkus, Director, Content, RSAC

Forbes recently reported that 81% of organizations cite AI agents as a top or high priority compared to other AI initiatives, with 51% of organizations already deploying AI agents. Building AI agents can be both rewarding and challenging, and if not built correctly, they can create major security risks. How can organization safely build agents? Tune into this podcast to get a security blueprint when building agents.

Manish Kumar Yadav, Principal Security Architect, SAP

Jim Rotan, VP, Head of Application Security & Automation, SAP

Tatyana Sanchez, Content and Programming Coordinator, RSAC

Kacy Zurkus, Director, Content, RSAC

Learn how to design and maintain resilient, high-availability systems that scale. This session dives into real-world outage scenarios and the engineering strategies that enabled rapid recovery. Discover proven techniques like graceful degradation, fallback logic, and fault isolation, plus practical guidance on scaling cloud-native services. We’ll explore how to balance cost vs. availability, apply reliability patterns, and build systems that withstand failures helping your organization deliver reliable, scalable services even under stress.

Ravi Teja Thutari, Senior SOftware Engineer, Hopper

Tatyana Sanchez, Content & Program Coordinator, RSAC

Kacy Zurkus, Director, Content, RSAC

The RSAC™ 2026 Call for Submissions is now open! Wondering what will WOW the reviewers? We asked our Program Committee members what’s front of mind for them, and they want to read about everything from industry challenges in the SOC to the art of threat intelligence to where AI is having the most impact. Join us to learn how to make your RSAC 2026 Conference submission stand out.

Speakers:

Etay Maor, Chief Security Strategist, Cato Networks

Pamela Fusco, Chairman & Founder, CBG and ZuluTails

Tatyana Sanchez, Content & Programming Coordinator, RSAC

Kacy Zurkus, Director of Content, RSAC

Every vulnerability announcement comes with a score. We’ve all seen them. We’ve all panicked when they are high. But where did that score come from, how was it calculated, and what is up with that string of random letters next to it? Those answers and more in this intro to where Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) scores come from, what's new in version 4, and the parts you aren't doing.

Speakers: Chris Taylor, Principal Consultant, Taksati Consulting, Kacy Zurkus, Director of Content, RSAC, and Tatyana Sanchez, Content & Programming Coordinator, RSAC

Planning to submit a session proposal for the RSAC™ 2026 Conference? This podcast offers essential guidance on navigating the Call for Speakers (CFS) process. Join us as we speak with a Program Committee Member who will provide valuable tips and insights on crafting a compelling and innovative submission. Learn how to make your proposal stand out before the CFS opens later this month.

Speakers:

John Elliott, Principal Consultant, Withoutfire and Pluralsight Author

Tatyana Sanchez, Content & Program Coordinator, RSAC

Kacy Zurkus, Director, Content, RSAC

Jennifer Leggio will discuss her RSAC(TM) 2025 Conference session on how it's critical that practitioners find ways to unlock courage, in the right ways, at the right times. This podcast will show every attendee how to turn their dulcet roar into a grand one, and change the trajectory of their cyber careers, and they will be given a clear format on how to make this happen.

Speakers: Jennifer Leggio, Chief Strategy Officer, W2 Communications, Kacy Zurkus, Director of Content, RSAC, and Tatyana Sanchez, Content & Programming Coordinator, RSAC

Generative AI is revolutionizing content creation, from news to entertainment. But as AI tools create increasingly realistic text, images, and video, the line between truth and fiction blurs. This podcast episode dives into the critical ethical and security challenges posed by deceptive generative AI. Tune in to explore the implications and potential solutions! Speakers: Aparna Achanta, Principal Security Architect, IBM, Tatyana Sanchez, Content & Programming Coordinator, RSAC, Kacy Zurkus, Director, Content, RSAC

As technology evolves, it's hard to imagine what the cybersecurity workforce of the future will look like. What skills will they need, what new roles will emerge? Regardless of 'what,' the industry will need, they will need a human workforce. So how can the practitioners, parents, and educators inspire curiosity in young people so that they see cybersecurity as a career path of interest where they belong? Listen in as RSAC explores this topic with industry influencers.

Speakers:

Jason Blanchard, Content & Community Director, Black Hills Information Security

David Brumley, CEO, Mayhem Security

John Hammond, Principal Security Researcher, Huntress

Kacy Zurkus, Director, Content, RSAC