IT Security Summit
Securing an AI-Powered Business
Navigating the new frontier of trust, compliance and innovation
European organizations are navigating a rapidly evolving threat landscape, growing regu-latory pressure, and increasing stakeholder demands—from customers and partners to regulators—for greater transparency, resilience, and trust.
Security is no longer just about preventing breaches; it has become a strategic enabler.
This event will help business leaders understand the levers for building “trusted digital operations” across Europe.
Join CISOs, security architects, and compliance leaders—alongside IDC analysts—for a full day of high-level sessions designed for business and IT executives across Europe. Gain strategic foresight (what’s coming) and practical roadmaps (what to do now) to secure Europe’s digital future:
• Explore how organizations are aligning security investments with business strate-gy amid growing regulatory, threat, and geopolitical pressure.
• Identify which technology capabilities will define competitive advantage in trust and resilience.
• Compare regional and industry variations: fast-growing markets, high-risk verti-cals, and SME vs. enterprise challenges.
• Build leadership, governance, and culture around trust—not just compliance.
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Europe is at a strategic inflection point. According to IDC’s latest research, security spending in Europe is forecast to reach nearly $60 billion by 2028, growing at a compound annual growth rate of around 9.4% from 2025 to 2029. Organizations are responding to intensifying cyber threats, expanding regulatory frameworks such as the EU AI Act, NIS2, GDPR, and DORA, and a surge in stakeholder demand for digital trust and sovereignty.
IDC also reports that software and cloud-native security solutions are expected to account for a majority of global security spend by 2028, as enterprises accelerate their adoption of integrated, analytics-driven protection.
Meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence is profoundly reshaping Europe’s security landscape. IDC data shows that 38% of organizations are already investing in AI or Agentic AI, while another 43% are running pilots or proofs of concept. Nearly 70% expect AI-driven disruption within the next 18 months.
For security leaders, this evolution represents both a strategic opportunity and a new risk frontier.
AI enhances threat detection, automation, and decision-making, yet adversaries are also exploiting it to scale attacks and manipulate data.
In response, European organizations are prioritizing investments in AI-powered security analytics, identity and access management (IAM), and managed detection and response (MDR) to maintain resilience, transparency, and ethical governance.
Join IDC analysts and leading industry experts at this must-attend event to learn how to build trusted digital ecosystems that drive innovation while ensuring security.
Gain exclusive insights into Europe’s most dynamic security markets and verticals, and leave with actionable strategies to turn security into a competitive differentiator—not just a reactive cost.
Agenda
The IDC IT Security Summit, is the ultimate meeting point for business, security, and technology leaders looking to embed trust, governance, and resilience at the heart of their digital transformation strategies.
2026 Prediction
By 2028, 40% of 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.
Main Themes
AI, Automation and Responsible Innovation
AI and intelligent agents are transforming how security is delivered, but with great power comes risk. We willexplore pragmatically deploying AI: governance models, guardrails for misuse, prioritization of high-impact usecases, and aligning AI systems with trust, transparency, and accountability.
Operations, Analytics and Resilience Engineering
Detection, response, and recovery are now continuous cycles rather than discrete events. We’ll delve intoadvanced analytics, managed detection & response, orchestration, external threat visibility (supply chain, thirdparties), and resilience metrics to operationalize security effectiveness.
The Human Factor: Leadership and Culture
Technology alone doesn’t guarantee security. Leadership, culture, and skill development must align. Wewill focus on transforming teams, embedding security ownership across functions, and equipping leaders tospeak the language of risk and trust to the board, CEOs, and business lines.
Incident and Trust Recovery
Breaches will happen, but what matters is how an organization responds. We will cover crisis communication,forensic response, regulatory handling, insurance, stakeholder trust restoration, and turning adversity intocredibility.
Sector and Domain Security Challenges
Different industries and environments pose unique security demands. We will focus on securing criticalinfrastructure (energy, utilities), connected devices and IoT, healthcare, finance, and emerging environmentslike smart cities or industrial systems.
2026 Prediction
By 2028, AI agents will be triaging 80% of SOC alerts in the majority of SOCs worldwide.
Venue
Barcelona. Próximamente confirmaremos el lugar.
Knowledge Hub
The NIS 2 directive – where are we now?
The deadline for the transposition of the EU’s second Network and Information Systems Security directive (NIS 2) came and went in October 2024 with only a handful of member states having completed the task.
European ICT spending implications of NATO’s 5% GDP spending target
At the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague a few weeks ago, member states pledged to allocate 5% of their annual GDP to core defense requirements and defense- and security-related expenditures by 2035.
IAM 2025: The Rise of the Machines
Identity and access management (IAM), and by extension, identity security, is one of the most pervasive and impactful challenges facing all European organizations today, from an operational and risk management perspective.
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