Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit UK 2026

Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit - UK 2026: what to expect

The EMEA edition of Gartner's flagship security event brings CISOs and security leaders together for research-backed keynotes, analyst one-on-ones, and peer roundtables, running alongside the Gartner Xpo show floor in London.

Themes to watch

• AI governance and agentic AI risk, the dominant theme across the entire 2026 Gartner security calendar.
• Post-quantum cryptography readiness, as regulators start setting concrete migration timelines.
• Operational resilience under regulations like NIS2 and DORA.
• Supply chain and third-party risk, including the software and container images running in production.

Where container security fits into the conversation

Supply chain risk and regulatory resilience are exactly where container image security earns a line item in a CISO's strategy - NIS2 and DORA both push organizations toward demonstrable, auditable control over their software supply chain, and a container image with no SBOM and no provenance record is a hard thing to defend in an audit.

Echo images ship CVE-free, FIPS-validated using a CMVP-validated cryptographic module, and pre-hardened against DISA STIG requirements, with full SBOM transparency in SPDX and CycloneDX formats and signed provenance via cosign and sigstore - the kind of documented control regulators are starting to expect by default. It's the same model behind Varonis's FedRAMP authorization using Echo, where the security team described the process as "just a smooth ride."

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