GSX Overview

For nearly six years, General Paul M. Nakasone led the largest and most technically advanced component of the U.S. Intelligence Community, the National Security Agency. Decorated with the Intelligence Community’s highest award, he is an experienced, transformational leader, who succeeded in recruiting and retaining the best and brightest talent; bringing transparency and greater engagement with the private sector; and in developing broader internal and external partnerships to overcome the nation’s most challenging adversaries. Weaving real life leadership lessons learned during his own career, General Nakasone brings meaning to the hair-raising challenges he faced as one of the Intelligence Community’s most visible leaders, and to where corporate leaders can leverage this knowledge as they work to align their teams and lead them to success.  

AI as a buzzword has permeated every space in security - but do people really know how it can be used in daily security operations? This panel will discuss the ins and outs of AI in practice, not just in theory, explore the integration of AI into real-life security operations, and highlight its potential role in surveillance, detection, and predictive risk analysis. It will answer:

• What does AI currently look like for security teams?
• How can AI be used to create change? Streamine operations? Allow resources to be scaled?
• How can implementing AI-centric technologies contribute to organizational resilience?
• What privacy/security considerations do organizations need to think about when evaluating AI?

Make the most of your membership experience and volunteer with ASIS – leadership opportunities, professional development, growing your global network, giving back to the profession, and earning CPEs are just a few of the reasons to get involved. Volunteer engagement staff will be on hand to provide an overview of the many opportunities and to help you find your best fit.  Can’t make it to this session? The annual Call for Volunteers is open through 15 October.

As AI becomes a mission-critical infrastructure, the integration of human strategic thinking and AI operational capabilities creates unprecedented opportunities for security leaders. Join Sol Rashidi to unlock the transformational potential of AI within security leadership and organizational strategy. By mastering AI integration, security professionals don’t just secure their career relevance—they emerge as indispensable strategic leaders driving innovation and competitive advantage. Sol will help you design a future where AI amplifies human strategic capabilities, creating unprecedented value and establishing security leaders as essential business catalysts in an AI-driven world.

General Session and Keynote Presentation is sponsored by: Allied Universal 

We face a paradox in security leadership: vulnerabilities must be mitigated AND embraced. Security vulnerability is the state of being susceptible to harm, injury, or weakness that could be exploited. In leadership, however, personal, and emotional vulnerability is seen as an asset, and even critical to effective leadership, a fact often ignored in security training.

As security leaders, we need to promote understanding of both concepts.  Leaders who understand and embrace the paradox of vulnerability build better teams and run better programs, ultimately improving the security industry. We need to incorporate this concept earlier in the training cycle for managers so they can become the next generation of leaders.

Looking to grow in your career? Then this is the session for you. You'll hear practical, hard-learned lessons and actionable advice for how you can move up in your organization and career from someone who went from making less than the janitor, to running a 100 person global team at a cybersecurity organization.