Main Stage: IS YOUR CTEM MONEY-MINDED? Unveiling A New Approach to Cyber Risk Management: Moving from Attack Surface Management to Risk Surface Management

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Presented at Black Hat USA 2025 by

Richard Seiersen

Modern businesses are risk-generating machines. They pursue digital and AI transformation, exposing more value to more people through more channels at higher velocities, in the hope of generating more revenue and profit. Their adversaries are similarly transforming, seeking to capitalize on this volumetric exposure. At the center of this emergent milieu stands security.Is this asymmetric warfare? Meaning, is security destined to be crushed between super-funded business innovation and legions of artificially intelligent adversaries? Not if we have a modern risk-based approach to security that scales – that works backwards from what the modern business stands to lose.In this keynote, we will unpack:The evolution from attack surface management (ASM) to risk surface management (RSM)The emergence of the Risk Operations Center (ROC) as a money-minded CTEMThe role of the modern cybersecurity risk management leader.Open to all Pass types (excluding Summit-only Passes).