Lalit Ahluwalia

CEO

DigitalXForce

Lalit Ahluwalia is the CEO & Founder of DigitalXForce, XForce Galaxy. He has led the North America Security practice for Accenture, Deloitte, and Wipro and been recognized at North Texas Top 500 Business Leaders by DECO and 40 under 40.

Speaker sessions

AI, Agents & The Rise of the Risk Operations Center (X-ROC): The Next Evolution of Cyber Defense

For decades, the Security Operations Center has been the nerve center of cybersecurity—yet its focus has remained reactive, alert-centric, and overloaded. With AI-driven threats, identity abuse, supply chain attacks, and cloud complexity increasing exponentially, SOCs are no longer sufficient for enterprise-scale risk governance.This session introduces the Risk Operations Center (ROC)—a new operational paradigm designed for the AI era. Powered by autonomous agents, continuous controls testing, risk quantification engines, and data-driven prioritization, the ROC shifts the mission of cybersecurity from detection to proactive risk elimination.We demonstrate how AI agents can evaluate posture drift, validate remediation, automate evidence collection, reduce alert fatigue, and deliver business-aligned risk intelligence. Real-world architectures from multi-cloud environments show how organizations are building X-ROCs that integrate SOC, GRC, IAM, CSPM, and TPRM into a unified risk telemetry layer.Attendees will learn how to design, staff, and operationalize a next-generation X-ROC that improves enterprise resilience while reducing operational overhead by up to 60%.Three Key Takeaways1.Why SOC models cannot scale to AI-driven threats—and how X-ROC architecture solves this gap.2.How AI agents automate posture testing, evidence validation, remediation workflows, and risk scoring.3.Operational blueprint to build an enterprise-grade Risk Operations Center in 12–18 monthIdeal For: CISOs, Risk Officers, SOC Team, Security Architects, CTOs, Organizations planning consolidated security and risk operations