Alan sits down with Himanshu Kathpal to discuss how modern cybersecurity teams are evolving from reactive defense to proactive exposure management. They explore why traditional approaches to risk reduction—built around scanning, alerting, and periodic assessment—are no longer enough in a world of continuous change and automated threats.

Kathpal explains that the attack surface has expanded faster than most organizations can track. Between cloud migration, SaaS adoption, and AI-driven workloads, visibility gaps have become inevitable. The key, he says, is shifting from simply knowing where vulnerabilities exist to continuously acting on that knowledge. That means integrating threat intelligence, analytics, and automation into a single feedback loop that prioritizes what matters most to the business.

He highlights the need for security programs that bridge the divide between IT operations and cybersecurity—breaking down silos that slow response and obscure accountability. As organizations embrace hybrid and multi-cloud environments, risk management must adapt by correlating data across systems, evaluating exploitability in real time, and reducing noise so that teams can focus on genuine exposure.

Kathpal also emphasizes the cultural transformation required for resilience. Cybersecurity can’t be treated as a once-a-year audit—it’s an ongoing practice of measurement, prioritization, and action.

The takeaway: cyber resilience isn’t about achieving perfect defense; it’s about maintaining continuous control in an imperfect, fast-moving environment. The organizations that can connect visibility with action will be the ones that stay secure amid the chaos of modern enterprise IT.