Don’t singularly focus on the speed of AI attacks. You must also prepare for the shift AI is bringing to the threat landscape. Join Tenable at EXPOSURE 2026 to witness a live AI-vs-AI battle and get clarity to defend your organization against next-generation autonomous threats.

You’ve heard and read a lot about how AI is upending cybersecurity. But have you actually seen an AI attack unfold right before your eyes? It’s one of many compelling reasons for you to join us at Tenable’s EXPOSURE 2026 conference in Boston from May 19 to 21.

During a keynote, you can witness a live simulation where two agentic AI tools — an offensive red team and a defensive blue team — duel, simultaneously attacking and protecting a vibe-coded expense report application that has an embedded large language model (LLM) chatbot.

The presentation, titled “The AI battle: A live defense simulation,” will offer you a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of AI attacks and AI defenses, as well as gain invaluable insights to boost your organization’s AI security strategy.

AI attack speed is part of the picture

Researchers Robert McSulla and Ben Smith crafted the simulation to drive home this point: If you just focus on countering the machine speed of AI attacks, you’ll fall short of protecting your organization. Why? While AI has indeed accelerated cyber attacks, it has also radically transformed them in multiple other ways.

By creating a unique, custom demo of an all-out agentic AI battle, the researchers will showcase multiple novel attack vectors in a clear and structured manner, aided by elements such as a timeline, a battle status monitor, and a scorecard. For example, the presentation will unpack autonomous defensive assessments by the blue-team agent, as well as sophisticated attack planning by the red-team agent.

The presentation will make it clear that while AI makes attackers faster, this increased speed represents a quantitative change. You can defend against faster AI attacks if you tune up the tools you already have.

However, AI has also brought about substantial changes, including an expanded attack surface; AI vs. AI attacks; new adversary capabilities; and context poisoning. To counter these new elements, you can’t rely on conventional cybersecurity tools and processes. A web application firewall rule can’t defuse a prompt injection attack. A Sigma rule can’t detect a semantic jailbreak attempt. 

During the presentation, you’ll see how in order to secure the simulation’s app – whose LLM chatbot has access to business logic, user data, and external tools – you’ll need security controls and capabilities designed specifically for AI.

In the end, you’ll emerge from the talk with concrete actions your team can implement right away, including:

• Threat actors are already leveraging AI. If your organization is not using AI for security, you are operating at a significant disadvantage.
• Effective defense requires proactively considering and defining your governance thresholds for the use of autonomous defensive AI.

But wait, there’s much more at EXPOSURE 2026

“The AI battle: A live defense simulation” is just one of the many presentations at EXPOSURE 2026 that’ll boost your understanding of how and why exposure management is a requirement for effective cybersecurity in the AI era.

With an exposure management strategy, your cybersecurity teams can regain control over a chaotic attack surface that has exploded in size and complexity due to AI. Exposure management gives you unified visibility over all assets – wherever they are – and their security issues, such as vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and overprivileged identities, so that you can proactively slash cyber risk, including AI-driven threats.

EXPOSURE 2026, which will be held in Boston from May 19 to May 21 at the Hilton Boston Park Plaza, features an impressive roster of cybersecurity experts, including: 

• Smithfield Foods’ CISO Jim Nelms
• GEICO CISO Rick Vadgama
• Verizon’s Senior Director, Readiness and Proactive Security, Jorge Orchilles
• Munich Re’s Global Head of IT Risk and Security John Schramm
• Cloud Security Alliance CEO Jim Reavis

You’ll also get a chance to hear directly from top-level Tenable executives, including: 

• Co-CEOs Steve Vintz and Mark Thurmond, who will explain how exposure management is redefining modern cybersecurity
• Chief Technology Officer Vlad Korsunsky, who will unpack how attackers use AI to accelerate reconnaissance, chain misconfigurations, abuse over-privileged identities, and exploit overlooked AI services and integrations
• Chief Product Officer Eric Doerr, who will explain what AI capabilities actually work; where AI meaningfully improves triage, investigations, and prioritization; and where teams should avoid over-automation, blind spots, and hype-driven missteps
• Chief Security Officer Robert Huber, who will sit down with fellow cyber leaders to talk about building an exposure management program; communicating effectively with the board; and operationalizing exposure management

If you’re looking to sharpen your cybersecurity skills and boost your professional development, EXPOSURE 2026 offers the following technical training tracks:

• “Introduction to exposure management business theory (EMBT),” for which participants will receive a certificate of completion
• “Exposure management for practitioners and analysts,” for which participants will receive a certificate of completion and a free enrollment code to take the full “Tenable One Specialist” course after the conference

Eager to boost your understanding of AI security and exposure management? Register for EXPOSURE 2026 today.