Beyond the Alert: How AI Can Help Government Detect and Stop Risk in Real Time

As AI becomes part of everyday government work, agencies face a new security challenge: understanding what people and AI agents are doing—and whether those actions support the mission or put it at risk. As activity moves across data, applications, and endpoints at greater speed, legitimate work, mistakes, misuse, and malicious behavior can look similar without the surrounding context. Alerts alone may not provide that context in time to prevent an incident.

During this conversation, government and industry leaders will explore how AI-enabled defenses can help agencies understand behavior in context and intervene before risky actions become incidents. The discussion will examine when to guide a user, alert a security team, or interrupt an action; how to oversee AI agents acting on users’ behalf; and how to strengthen protection without unnecessarily slowing mission delivery. Speakers will discuss the human oversight, governance, and trust needed to put these approaches into practice.