How to build an exposure management program the business trusts: Lessons from Tenable’s CSO

Discover how Tenable’s shift to an AI-driven exposure management program helped Tenable’s CSO, Robert Huber, overcome tool sprawl, unify data silos, mitigate the risk of rapid AI adoption, and shift from presenting granular, technical metrics to communicating business risk that the C-suite and the board can understand. Security tool sprawl and data silos make it difficult for CISOs to holistically and accurately assess their organizations’ cyber risk. An exposure management program consolidates fragmented security data into a single unified view of cyber risk across the entire attack surface.  Aided by exposure management, CISOs can align security metrics with business priorities and quantify risk for key revenue-generating business units, answering the board’s main question: “Are we secure?” What is trust in cybersecurity? And more importantly, how do you earn it? Here’s a hint: It’s not easy, especially in this AI era.  As the Chief Security Officer at Tenable, my mandate is to ensure our organization operates securely, but with the speed required to succeed in a very competitive business environment. In recent years, achieving this delicate balance — an agile yet cy...