AI Threats on Campus: Defending Education at Machine Speed

Thursday, November 5, 2026 | 2:00 p.m. ET

The competition around Artificial Intelligence (AI) is intensifying, and cybercriminals are already taking advantage of the technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling threat actors to conduct faster reconnaissance, create more convincing social engineering, identify vulnerabilities, and automate portions of cyber intrusions. Frontier models have demonstrated the ability to autonomously attack infrastructure at machine speed, and similar capabilities may soon become more widely accessible. Meanwhile, colleges and universities are rapidly adopting AI tools that can introduce new risks to institutional data, systems, and operations.

Designed for higher education executives, IT and security leaders, technology implementers, network administrators, and SOC, threat intelligence, and incident response professionals, this panel will explore emerging AI-enabled cyber risks and the practical steps institutions can take to address them. Panelists will discuss recent developments in AI-enabled cyber activity, how to communicate these risks to cabinet and institutional leadership, and how institutions at different levels of cyber maturity can strengthen their defenses.

Attendees will learn what an AI-aware defensive posture looks like and how security teams can responsibly use AI to improve threat intelligence, vulnerability prioritization, detection, incident response, and overall defensive capacity.