Rapid7's 2026 Global Cybersecurity Summit | Track: Leading Preemptive Security [NA]

Security leaders rarely fail due to lack of visibility. They fail when decisions made under pressure can’t be explained, defended, or sustained across the organization.

This exposure management session examines the ways that security leaders collaborate with their cross-functional partners to set security and risk goals across the business, and how they use SLAs/SLOs as a governance mechanism to bridge the gap between identifying exposures and remediating them. Using real-world scenarios and industry research, including IDC findings on cross-functional accountability and cloud responsibility models, we explore the ways that modern security programs prioritize action to known exposures, build formal processes for managing risk exceptions, and accelerate their time to respond to active threats.