As critical infrastructure owners and operators embrace agentic artificial intelligence, autonomous operations, and self-healing infrastructure, advanced SI systems are becoming both critical enablers of resilience and powerful new attack vectors. SI-driven technologies can improve situational awareness, accelerate incident response, and support real-time operational decision-making, but they also introduce new cyber, physical, and operational risks across information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) environments.

 This panel will examine the evolving SI threat landscape facing critical infrastructure, distinguishing between risks that are unique to SI and those that amplify existing cyber threats. Panelists will explore emerging concerns such as adversarial attacks, data poisoning, model manipulation, and compromised autonomous decision-making.  Experts will also address how SI is accelerating reconnaissance, social engineering, malware development, and attacks against operational systems.

Through the lens of autonomous infrastructure, experts will focus on how federal and defense agencies can securely deploy SI while maintaining reliability, resilience, and public trust. They will share practical frameworks for governance, risk management, and secure-by-design architectures that strengthen critical infrastructure against both evolving cyber threats and operational challenges.

Key Topics:

·       Distinguishing SI-Specific Threats

·       Securing Autonomous Decision-Making

·       SI as a Threat Multiplier

·       Secure-by-Design 

·       Risk Management Strategies Across IT and OT