Garrett Hamilton, CEO & Co-Founder of Reach, joined Bryce Carter, CISO for the City of Arlington, at the NTX ISSA Lunch & Learn in Plano, TX — a practical, operator-focused discussion with the local security community.

Functionality vs. Aesthetics in AI Models.

We went live to break down insights from 661 real‑world incidents remediated by Sophos X‑Ops, as detailed in the Sophos Active Adversary Report 2026. Host Susie Evershed and Sophos Senior Incident Response Analyst Hilary Wood unpacked the key trends shaping today’s threat landscape, including the continued dominance of identity‑driven attacks and the prevention steps that still made the biggest difference.

Most organizations have commitment issues. Like tracking all your customer obligations on sticky notes, Slack threads, email chains, screenshots, whiteboards, and spreadsheets. Why not save yourself the scavenger hunt and, you know, just use Vanta? Customer Commitments is a security intelligence layer that pulls critical SLAs out from legalese, and surfaces the commitments that actually matter with the Vanta AI Agent. Helping you centralize + operationalize every promise—so revenue and reputation aren’t on the line.

As AI adoption accelerates, a new security risk is emerging from inside organizations, driven not by attackers, but by well-intentioned employees. Across the business, teams are rapidly building AI-powered applications, workflows, and automations using low-code/no-code platforms, custom scripts, and MCP servers.