GEANT Security Days 2026 to address AI, internet resilience, and cyber resilience
Utrecht will host GEANT Security Days 2026 with keynotes and discussions on AI, resilience, and security practice.
GEANT Security Days 2026 will take place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, bringing together security professionals, network experts, incident responders, and chief information security officers from the research and education community.
The opening plenary includes a keynote by Frank Rieger, Chief Technical Officer of a supplier of secure communication systems, on ‘The bumpy road ahead – IT security challenges of the next years.’ According to the programme, his talk will address agentic LLMs, attention economics, and how automation, control of networked systems, endpoints, and software are becoming increasingly important as change accelerates.
A second keynote in the opening plenary of GEANT Security Days is scheduled with Valerie Aurora of the Amsterdam Internet Resiliency Club. The programme says her session, ‘Start your own Internet Resiliency Club,’ will look at how communities can prepare for temporary loss of internet connectivity caused by accidents, natural disasters, or armed conflict, and how to build local internet resiliency clubs using LoRa radios, mesh networking, and community management.
Another keynote is listed from Nancy Beers of Sanne Cyber and Happy Game Changers. Her session, ‘Play More Today. Secure Tomorrow,’ is described as a discussion of play and playfulness as tools for learning, innovation, and security practice, drawing on interactive games and team-based approaches.
Topics listed in the GEANT Security Days programme include security operations centres, AI in incident response, AI more broadly, cloud security, community engagement, cyber resilience, the human factor, an unconference or storytelling session, squeezed budgets and stretched teams, and practical security.
The event page says these sessions will address issues such as anomaly detection and prediction, malicious uses of generative AI, trust in third-party services, compliance in multi-cloud and hybrid environments, continuity planning, phishing and credential reuse, and operational pressures on security teams.
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