The RSA Conference (RSAC), the premier cybersecurity industry event, returns to San Francisco’s Moscone Center April 28-May 1, 2025, bringing together thousands of security professionals, vendors, and thought leaders from across the globe. This annual gathering serves as the definitive forum for the latest cybersecurity innovations, trends, and best practices, featuring hundreds of educational sessions, keynotes from industry luminaries, and an expansive expo floor showcasing cutting-edge security solutions. For organizations navigating today’s complex threat landscape, RSAC provides unparalleled networking opportunities, hands-on training, and essential insights to help bolster defense strategies against evolving cyber threats.
In an exclusive pre-RSA Conference 2025 interview, Michael Mumcuoglu, CEO and Co-Founder of CardinalOps, discusses how the company’s newly expanded Threat Exposure Management platform is addressing cybersecurity’s most pressing challenges. As organizations face an increasingly complex threat landscape, CardinalOps has developed an AI-powered solution that provides security teams with unified visibility across their existing security tools, enabling them to identify hidden exposures, intelligently prioritize remediation efforts, and proactively reduce breach risks.
Attendees can visit CardinalOps at booth #4504 in the North Hall to see firsthand how this innovative platform helps organizations optimize both prevention and detection controls within their current security stack�and maybe even crack the code on a lockbox containing custom Nike sneakers.
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VMblog: Give VMblog readers a quick overview of your company and its core mission in the cybersecurity space.
Michael Mumcuoglu: Organizations today are facing a rapidly evolving threat landscape and are tasked with facing the challenge of understanding and addressing the security exposures that put them at risk. The newly expanded CardinalOps Threat Exposure Management platform provides security teams with unified visibility across existing security tools for a complete view of risk and exposures that drives smarter prioritization and consistent remediation workflows to address exposures and proactively reduce the risk of a breach. Fusing intelligence across your existing prevention and detection controls, the CardinalOps AI-powered platform offers unparalleled clarity into risk and exposure – uncovering actionable insights into compensating controls and streamlining consistent and efficient remediation to proactively reduce risk and strengthen security and detection engineering for the threats most relevant to your organization.
VMblog: Where can attendees find you at RSA 2025? What’s your booth number, and what kind of experience can visitors expect when they stop by?
Mumcuoglu: Stop by the CardinalOps booth #4504 in the North Hall for a demo of the Threat Exposure Management platform and see for yourself how CardinalOps helps security teams optimize both prevention and detection controls in the existing security stack. Additionally, the booth will feature a secure lockbox with a pair of custom Nike sneakers inside. Stop by if you think you have what it takes to crack the code and open the box!
VMblog: What is your message to RSA attendees coming out to the show this year?
Mumcuoglu: There is a lot of hope and optimism paired with increasing uncertainty in the cybersecurity industry today. Organizations must take proactive steps to ensure they are able to stay ahead of unexpected changes. Establishing internal vulnerability triage protocols and consistently coordinating with threat intelligence experts are examples of critical actions organizations can take to stay a step ahead of the adversary. With a focus on prevention and detection controls together, through a holistic lens, organizations can access unified visibility across the security stack to uncover hidden exposures and gaps and automatically strengthen their security posture – making it possible to stay ahead of today’s more urgent and evolving threats.
VMblog: What were your key learnings from 2024’s security landscape, and how have those insights shaped your solutions for 2025?
Mumcuoglu: Security teams are often operating in siloed teams with siloed tools, fragmented prioritization, and inconsistent remediation workflows. We have seen this lead to breaches and lost revenue, damaged reputations and worse, time and time again over the past year – especially with the rise in AI, the shifting regulatory landscape, and the general uncertainty 2024 has delivered. This inefficient defense strategy largely informed the recent February 2025 expansion of the CardinalOps Threat Exposure Management platform – an AI-powered platform designed to bring visibility, intelligence, and efficiency to security exposure management.
VMblog: With AI being a major focus in cybersecurity, how is your company leveraging or addressing AI both as an opportunity and a potential threat vector?
Mumcuoglu: CardinalOps Threat Exposure Management is the only AI-powered CTEM platform to integrate both prevention and detection controls to drive intelligent prioritization of organizational exposures. Through utilizing AI, CardinalOps aggregates security findings across siloed tools to give organizations an effective view of the value received from existing security solutions, affording security teams the luxury of staying ahead of even the most savvy AI-powered threats.
VMblog: Can you share any exclusive previews or announcements that attendees can expect to see at your booth this year?
Mumcuoglu: Stay tuned and check in at www.cardinalops.com for the company’s latest news!
VMblog: What sets your solution apart in today’s crowded cybersecurity marketplace? Why should RSA attendees prioritize visiting your booth?
Mumcuoglu: If RSA attendees are still manually tracking their threats in a spreadsheet, struggling with visibility into their security tooling, and questioning if they are receiving appropriate ROI from their security stack, pay the CardinalOps booth a visit at Booth #4504 in the North Hall! CardinalOps’ Threat Exposure Management platform is built to deliver holistic coverage, behavioral threat intelligence, effective prioritization with compensating controls, and impact analysis for automated remediation to ensure that all customers are effectively tracking the threats that are targeting them. The cybersecurity guessing game is archaic – it’s time for a modern defensive approach for modern threats, and CardinalOps helps customers achieve just that. Visit the booth to find out more!
VMblog: How can security leaders better prepare their organizations for the evolving threat landscape in 2025 and beyond?
Mumcuoglu: Security leaders need to appropriately evaluate the security exposures that put them at risk through effective prioritization and triage . The “boil the ocean” approach to addressing every single risk in cybersecurity is not only inefficient, but it can be detrimental to a security team. Differentiation between risk and threat is critical as organizations face an evolving threat landscape. Gaining a better understanding of the specific threats targeting an organization through an automated platform that eliminates cybersecurity’s guessing game is the most effective way to prepare for new threats in 2025 and beyond.
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