Rita Sabri

Talks and events

I speak to practitioners, educators, and students about human oversight of AI agents, AI security education, and threat modeling for agentic AI.

Upcoming

  • Threat-Modeling Vision-and-Action AI Through the OWASP Agentic Top 10

    Talk, Simply Cyber Con 2026, Folly Beach, South Carolina

  • Cybersecurity in Every Classroom: 20 Ways to Embed NICE Work Roles Without Adding a Class

    Breakout session (accepted), NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Twenty field-tested integrations that bring cybersecurity into existing math, science, ELA, and CS classes, each aligned to the host subject’s standards and to NICE Framework work roles.

Attending

  • AGNTCon + MCPCon North America

    San Jose, California

  • [un]prompted, the AI Security Practitioner Conference

    San Francisco, California. Attending as a Decibel Scholarship recipient.

Past

  • Stop Pressing 1: Comprehension Gates for AI Agent Oversight

    Talk, DC State of the Stack 2026, American Red Cross headquarters, Washington, DC

    Why approving an AI agent’s action isn’t the same as overseeing it, and how comprehension gates ask people to show they understand an action before they approve it.

  • Preparing Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Cyber Careers

    Invited speaker, NIST NICE webinar (online), with Dr. Faisal Abdullah and Ian Sun

    A blueprint for building future-ready skills, cloud security and generative AI, into the academic frameworks K-12 schools already use.

  • Stop Pressing 1: Measuring Human Rubber-Stamping in Agent Oversight

    Poster, DEF CON 34 AI Village, Las Vegas, Nevada

  • From Python to Prompt Engineering: Modernizing Curricula for GenAI Security

    Breakout session, NICE Conference & Expo 2026, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Introduced the Curriculum Patch and the Red Team Model for GenAI, with a demo of the Bank Heist Lab.

Topics

  • The reading problem

    Why approving an AI agent’s action is not the same as overseeing it, and how comprehension gates help.

  • AI security with no budget

    Browser-only labs and red-team exercises that run on locked-down school devices.

  • Cybersecurity in every classroom

    Small, standards-aligned security integrations for math, science, ELA, and CS teachers.

  • Threat modeling agentic AI

    Applying the OWASP Agentic Top 10 to agents that browse, click, and act.

To invite me to speak, email sabri@ritacyber.com with the event, date, audience, and format. I present in English and French.