The Changing Cyber Landscape: 5 Operator Priorities
Key Highlights
- ➤Leidos outlined five operator priorities at the 17th Annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit
- ➤AI compresses threat response timelines for operators from days to minutes or hours
- ➤Leidos Parcata applies AI to continuously discover, validate, and remediate software vulnerabilities
- ➤Identity attack surfaces expand beyond passwords to session tokens and authentication cookies
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / October 21, 2026 / Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating how quickly vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploited. Identity attacks are moving beyond passwords and traditional authentication. AI systems themselves are creating new attack surfaces. Across it all, organizations are balancing greater automation with the need for human judgment, resilience and trust.
Those challenges shaped conversations at the 17th Annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit, which brought together more than 3,500 leaders from government, industry and academia Sept. 8-10 in Washington, D.C. Leidos experts participated in discussions spanning AI, identity security, cyber deterrence and the future of cyber operations.
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