The 2027 IT Security Summit UK brings together CISOs, regulators, and cybersecurity leaders from across the country to explore AI-powered defense, cyber resilience, OT security, sovereign AI, and post-quantum readiness. The summit provides strategic insights and peer collaboration for UK enterprises navigating NIS2, DORA, the EU AI Act, and the most complex threat environment in the country’s digital history.
Join IDC’s analysts and industry experts to explore how to build trusted digital ecosystems that deliver both innovation and assurance. Gain insights into Europe’s most dynamic security markets and verticals, and walk away with actionable frameworks to make security a strategic differentiator, not just a reactive cost.
Gain strategic clarity on the security challenges reshaping European enterprises: from AI-augmented threats and sovereign mandates to OT resilience and quantum readiness. Walk away with frameworks, peer insights, and a clear roadmap for navigating Europe’s most demanding cybersecurity environment.
Group Vice President, IDC Europe
IDC
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Duncan Brown is associate vice president, European Security Practice, at IDC EMEA and leads the firm’s security research program in Europe. He specializes in providing strategic advice to his clients, informing and validating their corporate, product, and marketing plans. Brown is an expert in analyzing the security market globally, and his list of security-related clients includes enterprises, central banks, government organizations, and security product suppliers and services providers. Brown’s expertise spans the gamut of security topics including incident response, threat intelligence, and global privacy issues. He established and leads IDC’s coverage of the global impact of the GDPR, the RPEC (ePrivacy Directive update) and NIS Directive on technology companies and their customers. His analysis and opinions are widely sought by industry leaders and investors, while his comments on industry trends and developments frequently appear in the leading business and trade publications.
Senior Research Director, European Security
IDC
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As research director for IDC’s European Security practice, Joel Stradling leads the content and analyst team for tracking the European security segment. His main focus area is the integration of network plus security and evolution of network architectures towards software-defined secure access.
Stradling has 20 years of experience as an analyst of international managed enterprise network and IT services. He is a regular speaker at major industry conferences talking about emerging technologies in B2B enterprise network and IT and wholesale carrier-to-carrier services. Joel is a well-known and highly regarded expert in the industry, offering insight and advice to C-level executives on technology competitive landscapes and emerging technologies, such as SD-WAN, 5G, SDN/NFV, and cyber-security.
The tension between data sovereignty mandates and the operational realities of UK enterprises competing in global digital markets, where regulatory and data sovereignty support (32%) is now the top vendor selection criterion.
25% of European enterprises will use autonomous agent-powered cyber-risk quantification platforms to turn security metrics into financial exposure, guiding budgets, controls, and M&A risk assessments.
Governing AI agents andautonomous systemswithin NIS2, DORA, andEU AI Act.
AI reshaping EuropeanSOC operations againstincreasingly sophisticatedthreats.
Identity as the coresecurity control layeracross European hybridenterprises.
Preparing Fortune 500Europe for post-quantumcryptography andmigration roadmaps.
Strengthening OT security, IT/OT convergence, and NIS2-driven operational resilience.
Building sovereign AI infrastructure and data residency strategies to navigate the regulatory landscape.
Managing third-party risk, AI BOMs, and software assurance under NIS2.
Aligning security investment with regulatory liability and executive accountability.
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European Regulatory Intelligence
Navigate NIS2, DORA, EU AI Act, and sovereign AI mandates with clarity and strategic confidence.
Regional Leadership Network
Connect with regional CISOs, regulators, policymakers, and enterprise security leaders across the country.
Future-Ready European Security Strategies
Build the roadmap for AI-era security, post-quantum readiness, and sovereign digital operations in Europe.
Actionable Resilience Frameworks
Discover practical approaches to OT security, identity governance, AI risk, and operational continuity.
This IDC FutureScape explores how European enterprises can embed sovereignty, regulatory compliance, and AI governance into their security strategies to ensure resilient, trustworthy operations at scale across the continent.
European SOC teams are adopting AI-powered, dynamic playbooks to accelerate threat detection and response — while meeting the strict compliance and reporting requirements of NIS2 and DORA.
With EU and UK quantum migration roadmaps calling for immediate action, European enterprises must conduct cryptographic inventories and quantum risk assessments now to avoid exponentially higher costs later.
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