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Black Hat MEA brings the global cybersecurity community together in Riyadh
from 1 to 3 December 2026.

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Mark Thurmond

Mark Thurmond

Co-CEO
Tenable
Mark Thurmond is an accomplished cybersecurity executive with decades of experience leading operations at technology companies like PTC, EMC, RSA Security, Qlik. As Co-CEO of Tenable, he drives the go-to-market strategy for exposure management.

Speaker sessions

Beyond the Silos: Exposure Management in a New Age of Risk

Tenable Co-CEO Mark Thurmond will address the cybersecurity imperative required to protect ambitious national transformations like Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030. Attendees will hear about the three converging forces creating pressure on today’s security teams, including the weaponization of AI.Thurmond will highlight why organizations are struggling with "managed chaos”, using too many siloed tools and burning out their security teams. He will cover why a fragmented defense is easily exploited by AI-powered adversaries who can automate attacks, making them faster and more sophisticated.Mark will then explain the necessary paradigm shift to preemptive cybersecurity, and why defenses need to transform from fragmented to unified, from static to predictive, and from manual to autonomous.
  • 14:15
  • Tue
  • 02 Dec
Stage: Executive Summit
Sessions Type: Sponsored