Marcelo Castro Escalada

Security leaders face a difficult reality: applications, infrastructure, APIs, and attack surfaces are changing faster than traditional security programs can validate them.  

While annual and periodic testing still provide value, they were never designed for environments shaped by AI-powered development, continuous deployment, and rapidly evolving threats. The result is a growing confidence gap between perceived security and actual exposure.  

So how do organizations determine what to test, when to test it, and where to focus their efforts as the environment continuously changes?  

In this session, we'll explore the shift from static testing programs to continuous, risk-based validation strategies that enable teams to identify exploitable risk, prioritize what matters most, and validate security as their attack surface evolves. We'll examine the role of automation, human expertise, and continuous exposure assessment in helping organizations move from reactive testing to continuous confidence.  

Join us to see how modern security teams are adapting their validation strategies to keep pace with change and make better security decisions in an increasingly dynamic risk landscape.