High-Impact Infrastructure Disputes Are Driving New Models for Public Dialogue, Notice, and Community Benefit
Large infrastructure proposals, such as the new data center proposal in Box Elder, Utah, are increasingly testing whether existing public-engagement frameworks provide enough time, information, and structure for meaningful community deliberation before decisions become legally or administratively difficult to revisit. National responses include moratoria, updated notice rules, community benefit agreements, public dashboards, and local-government primers. Faculty and community stakeholders can help strengthen these efforts by designing process audits, deliberative engagement models, impact-communication tools, and conflict-resolution frameworks that support informed review of and public participation in complex projects.
Agentic AI Introduces New Cybersecurity Risks Around Autonomy, Identity, and Prompt Injection
Agentic AI systems are moving from chat interfaces into autonomous workflows that call tools, access data, and act across enterprise systems. Recent CISA/NSA guidance and Gartner’s 2026 trends show that unmanaged agents create new risks around prompt injection, privilege creep, auditability, tool misuse, and non-human identity sprawl. Faculty can help mitigate these concerns by developing least-privilege agent architectures, runtime authorization models, prompt-injection defenses, agent telemetry, red-team benchmarks, and incident-response playbooks for AI-enabled environments.
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Agentic AI Threat Modeling: Designing Guardrails for Secure Use of Agentic AI Applications - Tuesday, May 26, 2026
For cybersecurity and AI governance professionals, this virtual symposium explains how to threat-model agentic AI applications and translate risks into practical guardrails using OWASP and CSA MAESTRO frameworks.
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