Rapid7's 2026 Global Cybersecurity Summit | Track: Putting Preemptive Security into Action [NA]

Most cloud incidents don’t begin with a critical alert - they begin with overlooked exposure. A misconfiguration, an over-permissive identity, a vulnerable container running in production. By the time an alert fires, escalation is already underway.

In this session, ARMO and Rapid7 walk through how modern cloud attacks unfold - from initial exposure to runtime exploitation and lateral movement. ARMO will set the stage with a strategic perspective on why runtime security has become essential in cloud-native environments. And will demonstrate a real-world cloud application attack scenario, showing how Rapid7 and ARMO together detect, validate, and stop the attack before it becomes a full-scale incident.

Attendees will gain a practical understanding of how exposure connects to runtime behavior, how cloud context reshapes prioritization mid-incident, and how combining exposure insights with detection and response improves signal fidelity without increasing noise. This session delivers both strategic clarity and hands-on insight into how cloud attacks really escalate - and how to interrupt them earlier.