“Black October” is the New Normal for Cybersecurity and You Must Adapt

• Identify how AI-accelerated attacks exploit technical debt, identity weaknesses, and CPS exposures faster than organizations can respond, and why reactive defenses are increasingly insufficient.

• Get better at the basics. Improve and automate patch delivery, configuration management, software inventory, asset control. Modernize infrastructure and applications for better resilience and faster changes.

• Apply Preemptive Exposure Management to improve visibility, prioritize attack paths, validate exploitability, and reduce attacker opportunity across IT, cloud, identity, and CPS environments.

• Evaluate how preemptive cybersecurity, adaptive resilience, and modern cyber governance can prepare organizations for Dark AI adversaries and emerging Industrial and Physical AI threats.

AI is compressing the time between vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and business disruption. CISOs and security leaders must now defend against AI-accelerated identity attacks, rapidly weaponized software vulnerabilities, and cyberattacks that can directly impact physical operations. This webinar examines recent incidents involving identity compromise, critical vulnerability exposure, and cyber-physical infrastructure attacks to reveal the common weaknesses attackers exploit. Attendees will learn how leading organizations are improving cyber hygiene, transforming exposure management, modernizing applications and infrastructure, reducing remediation delays, and improving resilience across both IT and operational environments. The session will provide practical guidance for prioritizing attack paths, reducing attack opportunities, and preparing for the next generation of AI-enabled threats.

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Want to learn more and discuss the implications? Book an analyst consultation to discuss:

• Patch management and operations with Paul Delory.

• Supply chain security, AI-augmented vulnerability remediation and open-source management with Nitish Tyagi.

• AI security platforms, AI application security, WAAP, and CNAPP with Marissa Schmidt.

• Exposure management/CTEM (vulnerability management, attack surface management, validation) and offensive security (pentesting/red teaming) with Mitchell Schneider.

• Autonomous cyber defense systems, preemptive security including exposure management, and AI security platforms with Neil MacDonald.

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