September Chapter Meeting Recap: Cybersecurity in the Age of AI
Updated: 2 days ago
Thursday, September 17, 2026 | Capital One, Building C1, Maplewood Hall, McLean, VA
By Patrick Novak, VP of Memberships, ISC2 Northern Virginia Chapter
Our September chapter meeting brought members together for a panel on one of the hardest questions in security right now: Cybersecurity in the Age of AI: Defending an Enterprise That Is Changing Faster Than We Can Secure It.
The panel
Bill Webster, COO and VP of Security Engineering, Titan Technologies (moderator)
Davon Tyler, CISO, Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of Education
Wayne Rodgers, Federal Senior Solutions Architect, GuidePoint Security
The evening also included a five-minute talk from Brian Knobbs, Founder and CTO of 10x National Security.
What the panel took on
How AI is changing the job for attackers and defenders alike
Shadow AI and autonomous agents
Protecting sensitive data
Whether today's frameworks are keeping up
How much authority AI should have inside the SOC
Thank you
Thank you to Titan Technologies for hosting this meeting, to Capital One, our Platinum sponsor, for the venue, to SwishData for sponsoring our Cyber Social Hour at Starr Hill Brewpub, and to Joe Lipinski for the outstanding photography.
Next up
Thursday, October 22: The Modern AI SOC: From Alert Fatigue to Autonomous Defense, with Jason Malnar of Merlin Cyber and Shanikqua Burks of Torq. Register on our Events page.
Photos
Photos by Joe Lipinski. Click any photo to view it full screen.
ISC2 Northern Virginia Chapter Board of Directors
Ryan Bellack, President
David Carroll, Executive Vice President
Patrick Novak, Vice President, Membership
Jonathan White, Secretary
Bryan Adams, Treasurer
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