Lightning Talk: AI Security Reality Check: Do the Basics

AI Security Reality Check: Stop Chasing Shiny Threats, Do the Basics 🎙️ Daniel Bardenstein, CEO & Co-Founder, Manifest 📍 Presented at SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit 2026 Security teams are racing to prevent prompt and agent exploits while the biggest exposure is unmanaged AI: unknown tools, no owners, unverified provenance and data rights, over-privileged agents, and no audit trail. Our research shows CISOs are already facing AI-driven legal issues (privacy, IP, contracts, liability). This talk delivers an operational baseline: inventory, risk tiering, minimum controls, and metrics, plus what broke in real governance workflows. Explore upcoming SANS Summits to continue learning from leading voices in cybersecurity: https://go.sans.org/summits