Top 11 Must-Attend at RSAC 2026 (If You Care About Offensive Security)
RSAC 2026 is a must-attend for leaders focused on AI penetration testing, red teaming, and modern vulnerability management. From executive gatherings to hands-on AI security sessions, here’s where to focus if you care about offensive security in the age of AI.
RSA Conference is famously signal-dense, but if there’s one area of interest that has attendee attention piqued, it’s AI penetration testing.
For vulnerability management to keep up with threats, security teams need to think like hackers, and adopt tools that can act like them. Here’s a quick guide to the events worth prioritizing this year if you’re serious about AI-driven red teaming, adversarial validation, and the future of penetration testing.
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Executive-Level Conversations & Gatherings Worth Attending
Not every high-value session is technical. If you’re evaluating offensive security innovation, curated gatherings can provide sharper conversations than booth walk-throughs.
The Hottest Networking Events for your RSAC Agenda
1. YL Ventures: Leaders’ Lounge
Tuesday, March 24 | 5:00 PM | Novela Cocktail Bar
Hosted by YL Ventures
RSAC’s real value often happens outside the Expo floor, and there’s no better place to separate signal from hype in new security offerings (including AI penetration testing) than in this room.
The Leaders’ Lounge consistently attracts CISOs and technical security executives willing to go beyond hype and trends.
2. A New Era of Security Happy Hour Meet-Up
Wednesday, March 25 | 6:00 PM | House of Shields | Register here
Hosted by Squared Circle Ventures.
Come meet your whole 2027 (and beyond) security stack, all in one room. Drinks and light refreshments with some of the most exciting and innovative startups at RSAC, including Moonfort, Beacon, and, of course, Novee Security.
3. RSA Opening Breakfast
Monday, March 23 | 8:00 AM | Register here
Hosted by Red Dot Capital, Ibex, Georgian & Venture Guides
Ease into RSAC with a no-agenda, no-demo, no-presentation breakfast. It’s invite-only, featuring cyber founders, CISOs, and VCs. Follow the link above to request your invitation.
4. Fireside Chat with Nikesh Arora + Israeli Cyber Breakfast at RSAC
Wednesday, March 25 | 8:00 AM | Register here
Hosted by Glilot Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, Deloitte Catalyst & Valley Bank
“Indulge in a delicious Israeli breakfast with the best minds in the cyber ecosystem, from entrepreneurs to CISOs and investors.”
Get a high-altitude perspective on platform consolidation and how enterprise defense must evolve as attackers adopt automation and reasoning systems. Hear from Nikesh Arora, one of the biggest names in cybersecurity today.
5. Cyber Leaders VIP Reception
Monday, March 23 | 5:00 PM | Register here
Hosted by Lightspeed, Merlin & Evolution
This reception, hosted by some of the biggest names in cyber VC, is focused on navigating board-level AI risk and escalating attacker sophistication.
Expect candid discussion around whether annual pentesting cycles still make sense, AI governance vs. AI exploitation, and continuous validation vs. point-in-time assurance.
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Evening Meet-Ups
6. RSA 2026 Cocktail Party
Monday, March 23 | 6:30 PM | Register here
Hosted by Team8, Bessemer, Battery, ICON & JP Morgan
If you want to know how to future-proof your security program – whether it’s offense or defense-focused – this is the room where it happens.
7. VC & Tech Mixer
Tuesday, March 24 | 5:30 PM | Register here
Hosted by Hetz Ventures, SYN Ventures & Lama Partners
An exclusive, invite-only event for CISOs, tech executives, startup founders and investors.
8. WiCyS RSAC MeetUp at International Smoke
Tuesday, March 24 | 6:30 PM | Register here
Hosted by Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS)
This practitioner meetup is sponsored by AWS, Google, Microsoft Security, SANS, and SentinelOne.
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AI Pentesting & Offensive Security Sessions to Prioritize
In addition to the networking events above, three sessions stand out for leaders evaluating AI-driven offensive security:
9. How to Red Team a Frontier AI Model
Tuesday, Mar 24 | 8:30 AM – 9:20 AM PDT
As enterprises deploy frontier AI models into production systems, red teaming them is no longer optional.
This session explores how a large organization approaches AI red teaming, including methodology, case studies, and practical lessons.
10. From Prompt to Pwn: Exploiting Web Apps with LLM & OWASP Techniques
Monday, Mar 23 | 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PDT
This hands-on lab may be one of the most practically relevant sessions of the week.
It combines traditional OWASP exploitation techniques (XSS, SQLi, RCE) with modern AI application vulnerabilities, such as prompt injection, agent manipulation, and LLM-specific trust boundary abuse.
For security leaders overseeing AI-integrated products, this lab reinforces that added LLM functionality increases system statefulness, trust complexity, and attack surface. If your teams are shipping AI-powered features, this is required context.
11. Beyond Red Teaming: Why AI Security Needs a Bigger Playbook
Thursday, Mar 26 | 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM PDT
This session expands the discussion beyond episodic AI testing to broader architectural resilience, including RAG-specific security controls, AI supply chain risk, continuous monitoring strategies, and the limitations of one-off adversarial testing.
The broader theme emerging this year: AI systems behave dynamically. Static validation models will struggle to keep up.
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Let’s Continue the Conversation at Booth #S-0262
If offensive security is on your agenda at RSAC this year – particularly AI penetration testing and AI red teaming – we should talk.
Stop by Booth #S-0262 to meet the Novee team. You’ll get a live demo of our AI penetration testing platform, and learn –
- how Novee catches zero-day vulnerabilities and novel criticals, including dozens of new CVEs
- how black box penetration testing works in practice: with nothing but a domain name, our AI hackers map your attack surface, execute multi-step attacks, validate exploits and deliver actionable remediation guidance
- how a small-scale, proprietary LLM outperforms the biggest frontier models and helps you find vulnerabilities that manual pentesters sometimes catch, and automated tools consistently miss
- how to run security tests that make your developers happy, your customers safe, and your auditors satisfied
This year, RSAC is the place to start learning how your attackers think. Make the meetings count. See you at Booth #S-0262.
