Cybersecurity’s static, fragmented approach to compliance is failing in the face of rapid innovation, complex infrastructure, and relentless risk. Today, security and engineering teams face a widening ‘compliance gap’; legacy processes built for periodic paperwork and discrete audits cannot keep pace with the realities of DevSecOps, hybrid cloud, and continuous deployment. The industry is overdue to “name the problem,” not just patch it.

This fireside chat marks the official launch of Security Control Management (SCM) as a new software category: one purpose-built to shift risk management from manual, after-the-fact reporting to proactive, embedded defense at the heart of every enterprise. 

SCM platforms unify security control selection, mapping, validation, and enforcement—transforming scattered paperwork and reactive compliance into a streamlined, automated discipline that empowers decision-making “at the speed of relevance.”

Lisa Umberger (Former NSA Security Leader, CEO of Sicura), cybersecurity industry legend and former Johnson & Johnson CISO Marene Allison, and Maj. Gen. Ryan Heritage (ret.), USMC, who served as Director of Operations at U.S. Cyber Command will examine:

• Going from labor-intensive, point-in-time RMF cycles to continuous, composable, and context-driven control management
• How SCM uniquely operationalizes CISA Secure by Design principles, allowing organizations to select relevant controls, automate implementation, and validate compliance across cloud and on-prem environments
• Why SCM isn’t just another security automation—it is the connective tissue aligning policy, engineering, and business outcomes, enabling continuous authorization (cATO) and interlocking risk posture with mission priorities
• How adopting SCM accelerates resilience, shortens ATO timelines, improves documentation traceability, and bridges silos across security, engineering, and compliance teams
  Attendees will leave with a new vocabulary for the challenge, plus the blueprint for moving beyond checklists to a unified discipline of Security Control Management, launching a future where security is engineered in, not bolted on.