As threat actors increasingly weaponize AI to accelerate and sophisticate their attacks, security and IT teams are drowning not in a lack of tools, but in volume and noise. Ivanti is heading to RSAC 2026 with a clear message: visibility alone isn’t enough — organizations need clarity, context, and a defensible path to action. VMblog sat down with Chris Goettl, VP of Endpoint Security at Ivanti, to learn what the company has planned for the show and how its Exposure Management platform is helping organizations move from reactive firefighting to proactive, risk-based security.
Ivanti will be exhibiting in the North Expo at booth 6371, where attendees can catch live product demonstrations focused on Exposure Management and speak directly with the company’s security experts. The team is also participating in the Expo Pub Crawl on Wednesday, March 23, and Chris will take the stage at the North Briefing Center Theater on March 25 at 3:20 PM to walk through a practical operating model for aligning cyber posture with business risk appetite.
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- Give VMblog readers a quick overview of your company and its core mission.
Chris Goettl: IT and Security teams sit at the center of an organization’s productivity and resilience. That’s not new, but today, the stakes are higher than ever. To drive real productivity and transformation, organizations need a single source of truth that spans both IT and Security. When teams operate in isolation, innovation slows, risk increases, and AI initiatives struggle to deliver value.
Ivanti’s mission is to help our customers manage, automate, and protect their technology so their organizations can continuously innovate, all without sacrificing government or trust.
- Where can attendees find you at RSA 2026? What’s your booth number, and what kind of experience can visitors expect when they stop by?
Goettl: Conference attendees can find us in the North Expo, booth 6371. Anyone who visits our booth will have the opportunity to see product demonstrations on Exposure Management, talk to our experts and take away a complimentary t-shirt or Fellow Travel Tea mug while supplies last. We’re also participating in this year’s Expo Pub Crawl on Wednesday, March 23, from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm.
- What is your message to RSA attendees coming out to the show this year?
Goettl: Organizations struggle to clearly understand their cyber exposure, prioritize risk, and focus on the actions that make the most impact. Ivanti’s Exposure Management solution is built for environments have not attained high level of asset visibility, whose assets aren’t tied to business importance, risk signals are scattered across multiple systems, and teams struggle to convert findings into consistent, defensible decisions. Instead of depending on static inventories or infrequent scans, we’ll show attendees how Ivanti delivers ongoing visibility, so teams always know what exists, what changed, and what exposures actually matter– connecting insights to action through existing IT and security workflows.
- What were your key learnings from 2025’s security landscape, and how have those insights shaped your solutions for 2026?
Goettl: A linear approach to addressing exposures is insufficient in today’s threat landscape. Threat actors have begun leveraging artificial intelligence to increase the speed and sophistication of their attacks. Organizations are starting to adopt a risk-based approach that defines their risk appetite in advance allowing them to continuously identify, prioritize, validate, and mitigate exposure across the attack surface faster and more efficiently as they have already pre-decided the appropriate response based on the risk to the business.
- What specific market challenges or pain points is your company addressing at RSA 2026? How have these evolved from last year?
Goettl: Many organizations have an incomplete understanding of their attack surface. CIOs and CISOs aren’t overwhelmed with a lack of tools; they’re overwhelmed by volume and noise which delays response and often ends with the wrong exposures as the focus. Exposure Management is about continuous visibility and a clear understanding of which risks actually matter. More over, Ivanti is helping organizations to understand their current maturity and how to articulate their risk appetite to help them become more agile and speed up response to high-risk exposures.
- What sets your solution apart in today’s crowded cybersecurity marketplace? Why should RSA attendees prioritize visiting your booth?
Goettl: Ivanti provides continuous asset discovery and contextual risk analysis, enabling IT and security teams to proactively address security gaps, reduce the attack surface, and stay ahead of evolving threats. We help make the connection between operational priorities and investment with cybersecurity strategy and review.
- How does your platform help organizations manage the security implications of shadow AI and unauthorized generative AI tool usage by employees?
Goettl: Ivanti provides continuous asset discovery and contextual risk analysis, enabling IT and security teams to proactively address security gaps, reduce the attack surface, and stay ahead of evolving threats. At the heart of shadow AI is the challenge that you can’t protect what you don’t know exists. By continuously discovering assets and aggregating exposure data across vulnerabilities, applications and environments, the Ivanti platform then prioritizes risk based on business context, not just severity scores.
- Are you participating in any speaking sessions or panel discussions at RSA 2026? Can you tell us more about these presentations?
Goettl: We’ll be in the North Briefing Center Theater on Wednesday, March 25 at 3:20pm discussing how to align cyber posture and risk appetite. Organizations are expected to show cyber exposure is under control and in line with (or the businesses’) risk appetite. The problem: today’s tools give visibility, not clarity. This session will cover a simple operating model that sets limits, tracks drift and streamlines how issues get closed.
- As an experienced RSA participant, what advice would you give to attendees to make the most of their conference experience in 2026?
Goettl: The sessions are fantastic, but RSAs’ greatest benefit is the networking opportunities it provides. You have the collective knowledge of a wide swath of the industry at your fingertips. Focus on meaningful conversations, ask questions at booths and in sessions, and wear comfortable shoes.
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