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From Training to Readiness: Building Agentic Capability and Cyber Resilience
In this fireside chat, Forrester Principal Analyst Jess Burn joins SimSpace CTO Lee Rossey and OT Solutions Architect Jason Allnutt to explore how cybersecurity readiness is evolving beyond traditional training methods. The conversation will examine why incremental improvements are no longer enough, how human training and AI testing must converge, and what it truly means to build agentic AI operational capability today.
- April 9, 2026
- 1:00pm EST
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What To
Expect
Rather than focusing on more training, this session challenges leaders to rethink how readiness is measured, developed, and continuously validated, across both humans and AI.
Learning Objectives
Understand how AI is transforming cybersecurity operations, including how teams must train and validate human + machine collaboration
Identify the key components of modern capability-building platforms, including realistic environments, team-based scenarios, and performance validation
Evaluate the tradeoffs between building vs. adopting training and simulation platforms for developing and testing cyber capabilities at scale
Recognize why continuous validation—not one-time training—is essential to ensuring teams can perform under real-world pressure
Jess Burn
Principal Analyst at Forrester
Jess is a principal analyst at Forrester serving security and risk (S&R) professionals. She contributes to Forrester’s research on the role of the CISO with a focus on security talent management. Additionally, Jess covers incident response and crisis management, and email security.
Prior to her analyst role, Jess spent eight years as a principal advisor on Forrester’s Security & Risk Council. In this role, she was a trusted partner to a network of CISOs and S&R leaders, making and communicating critical decisions about and investments in their programs. Before she was an advisor, Jess led a Forrester Consulting practice focused on helping tech and service providers with their business and go-to-market strategies.
Jess holds a Bachelor of Arts in communications, with concentrations in English and marketing, from the University of Connecticut.
لي روسي
CTO & Co-founder, SimSpace
Lee is a former Group Leader at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he established the Cyber System Assessments Group, which became a nationally recognized centre of excellence. As Group Leader, Lee worked with DARPA, testing, and evaluating over 30 classified and unclassified programs. He also worked with the Air Force.
Lee led several national studies for the Department of Defense to identify and assess existing capabilities, develop an approach and roadmap for their consolidation and advancement, and provide the roadmap for the future, which laid the foundation for the National Cyber Range Complex, the Persistent Cyber Training Environment, and other specialized testing and training facilities.
