Sabeen Malik is VP, Global Government Affairs and Public Policy at Rapid7. ⠀ Security teams need a better way to connect what they detect, what they fix, and what they can prove. The pace of modern security operations no longer works in defenders’ favor. IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 found that the mean time to identify and contain a breach is now 241 days, even as AI and automation help defenders move faster. At the same time, Rapid7’s 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report shows how qui