Nashville Security Summit 2026

The data that enables targeted violence has never been easier to find. In June 2025, investigators recovered a notebook from a Minnesota murder suspect containing a list of data aggregator websites, documenting how the data broker ecosystem was leveraged to locate and target public officials. Months earlier, a pair of websites exposing 23,000+ executives demonstrated how AI tools could build targeting infrastructure in minutes, no technical expertise required. These cases mark a turning point: AI has collapsed what the Supreme Court once called "practical obscurity," the protection that arose from the simple difficulty of finding and correlating personal information. This session examines how AI-enabled reconnaissance has compressed the threat timeline from weeks to minutes, expanding the population of capable threat actors and reshaping what security leaders must measure and manage. Attendees will learn why discoverability now precedes and predicts targetability, and how reintroducing friction into the data ecosystem disrupts threat development at its origin.