Tenable, the exposure management company, is set to make a significant impact at Black Hat MEA 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with Co-CEO Mark Thurmond headlining the event as a keynote speaker. His address, titled “Beyond the Silos: Exposure Management in a New Age of Risk,” will emphasize the need for a fundamental shift in cybersecurity strategy to address the rising sophistication of AI-driven attacks and the growing complexities of modern digital ecosystems.
Driven by Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 ambitions and rapid digital transformation agenda, the keynote will outline why traditional reactive cybersecurity approaches have become inadequate. Enterprises today manage over 80 security tools on average, yet still struggle to prevent breaches due to fragmented visibility, complexity, and overwhelming alert volumes. Thurmond will argue that attackers are exploiting this disarray—especially through weaponized AI that accelerates attack development from weeks to mere minutes.
“The cybersecurity playbook of the past twenty years doesn’t work anymore—exposure management is the new discipline we need in the AI age.”
— Mark Thurmond, Co-CEO, Tenable
He will advocate for exposure management—a unified, proactive approach focused on identifying, prioritizing, and remediating the exposures that matter most before attackers can exploit them. “In the age of AI, we need to adopt a new discipline called exposure management. This pre-emptive approach is the only way to transform our defenses and secure a prosperous future for the digital economy,” said Thurmond.
Tenable will showcase its AI-powered Tenable One Exposure Management Platform at the event, demonstrating how organizations can gain unified visibility across cloud, IT, identity, and OT environments.
As the Middle East accelerates its AI and digital economy ambitions, exposure management is emerging as a strategic cornerstone for securing national progress, business resilience, and cyber readiness in the era of AI-driven threats.
