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Session 1A: WiFi and Bluetooth Security

Authors, Creators & Presenters: Rui Xiao (Zhejiang University), Xiankai Chen (Zhejiang University), Yinghui He (Nanyang Technological University), Jun Han (KAIST), Jinsong Han (Zhejiang University)

PAPER Lend Me Your Beam: Privacy Implications of Plaintext Beamforming Feedback in WiFi

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The pace of change isn’t slowing down. If anything, it’s accelerating. Emerging technologies, new competitors, and new customer expectations are rewriting the rules of business....Read More

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At Tenable, we believe the next generation of great CISOs and security leaders will arise from those vulnerability management professionals who are driving the shift to exposure management today.

Key takeaways:

1. Vulnerability management is crucial for the evolution toward a more strategic, business-aligned approach to cybersecurity — that’s why these professionals are best positioned to lead the shift to exposure management.
    
2. As the primary source of exposure insights for CISOs, chief risk officers, business leaders, and IT and security teams, you will play the pivotal role in improving communication, driving efficiency, guiding investments, and strengthening the organization's risk posture.
    
3. The deep understanding of assets, risks, and prioritization you get with exposure management puts you in line to be a next-generation security leader.

As a vulnerability management professional you already possess deep knowledge of assets and risk across the attack surface. Add in the ability to provide rich exposure context, and suddenly you’re in a position to deliver strategic, business-aligned insights that can help the entire organization improve risk posture and drive better outcomes. You are better equipped than other security professionals to lead this evolution toward holistic exposure management. 

With all the instruments at play, security organizations are a lot like an orchestra. When separate musicians, each one reading their own sheet music, play without awareness of each other, it sounds like a cacophony. There's music in there somewhere, but it's impossible to hear through the noise. 

Think about each one of those musicians as a different security silo in your organization. They have their own skills and “instruments” — but lack relational context — so the outcome is less than ideal.

Consider the common attack chain. A simple misconfiguration in a cloud environment may seem harmless in isolation. But if it directly leads to a critical database vulnerability, it exposes sensitive client records. Similarly, a basic web application flaw that provides access to an administrator account without multi-factor authentication (MFA) can give away the keys to the entire kingdom. Attackers expertly exploit these gaps in visibility and context.

As a vulnerability management professional, you know the drill. You may have paved the way for richer context through risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM), factoring in external accessibility, exploitability, and asset criticality. This experience uniquely positions you to step up and orchestrate the future of security.

By becoming an exposure management expert, you can take center stage as the conductor. Exposure management platforms allow you to unify data across siloed tools and access deep relationship context — the connections between assets, identities, risks, and the business.

Armed with the attacker’s view of viable attack paths leading to your organization’s most critical assets, you can help your colleagues in security and IT to focus their remediation efforts on closing off critical choke points.

This context empowers you to deliver business aligned exposure metrics, streamlining communication across constituents — your peers, your department leaders, your CISO, and your business-side colleagues. Everyone will be able to understand how security investments can best improve risk posture. These are essential elements in the toolkit of tomorrow’s security leaders.

As the conductor, you’ll expand your value, influence, and expertise 

It’s easy to talk about how exposure management evolves the scope and focus of vulnerability management teams. But what does that really mean for you and your relationships with security and IT peers, the business, and other leaders? 

Let’s look at a variety of roles and their struggles. Equally important, we’ll contrast that with how you, as the conductor, can transform the daily lives of your colleagues while increasing your value, visibility, and impact across the organization. 

Role Strategic challenge Your impact Chief information security officer (CISO) CISO board reporting is often hampered by confusing CVE metrics and patch counts that lack business relevance. You empower CISOs to communicate business-aligned risk posture and exposure metrics the board easily understands. Chief risk officer (CRO) CROs are forced to rely on fragmented technical reporting that lacks risk and compliance alignment. You provide the unified, business- and framework-aligned reporting CROs need to maintain the effectiveness of their governance, risk, and compliance program. Business unit leaders Leaders struggle to understand security exposure and where to place limited staff and funds. You provide business unit leaders access to transparent exposure metrics and business-aligned views to justify and prioritize their security investments.

Siloed security teams

(including cloud, operational technology, identity, etc.)

Siloed teams are inundated with endless low-priority findings, which leads to alert fatigue. You give siloed teams the tools they need to surface the most exploitable and impactful exposures first. IT admins Admins are overwhelmed by excessive tickets that are siloed and lack context and remediation guidance. You reduce IT admin ticket noise with choke point prioritization and clear AI-driven remediation guidance. Developers Developers receive vague fix requests without understanding urgency or business impact. You provide clear guidance on priority and business-impacting exposures, along with needed remediations-as-code.  Security investigation teams Teams manually stitch together telemetry data from countless different security and IT tools during investigations. You provide high-fidelity technical and business context in one place, so teams can speed up investigations and disrupt ongoing attacks. Purple teams Purple teams have no visibility into asset and risk relationships, and the high-value targets they need to prioritize for testing.  Teams gain a prioritized view of actual attack paths that lead to crown jewels for focused testing of the things that matters most.

Source: Tenable, October 2025

Where do I start? The key to becoming the next great security leader 

This moment represents a defining opportunity for vulnerability management professionals. By driving the evolution to holistic exposure management, you become the conductor of the “security orchestra.” The guidance you provide can align security and IT teams, business leaders, and executives with the shared goal of reducing actual business exposure.

We recognize change isn’t easy and building a career path takes time. So, where do you start? Here are two actions you can take beginning today that can help you lead the way from vulnerability management to exposure management: 

1. Reframe the problem for security leadership

Tip: Traditional vulnerability management focuses on volume — patch counts, CVSS scores, SLA metrics — without clearly surfacing what truly matters. Exposure management flips the script by prioritizing exploitable risks with real business impact. Use attack path visualizations, crown jewel targets, and risk-to-business narratives to shift the conversation from noise to clarity. Show how exposure management enables board-level reporting with exposure metrics that align with continuity, trust, and regulatory pressure.

2. Connect exposure management to strategic objectives

Tip: Executives care about outcomes: reducing risk, boosting efficiency, supporting compliance, and enabling transformation safely. Exposure management isn’t another tool.It’s a strategic capability that integrates siloed data, applies shared risk context, and drives informed action across teams. Position exposure management as an evolutionary step that respects existing investments while empowering smarter decisions through unified, business-aligned context.

The next post in this series will show you how to apply this strategy pragmatically. We’ll address four of the most pressing challenges facing security programs today: tool and vendor sprawl, blind spots across the external attack surface, unmanaged risks from rapid tech adoption, and the growing burden of alert fatigue. 

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See how an exposure management platform like Tenable One can help you overcome these issues by balancing immediate priorities with long-term objectives — without blowing up your budget or disrupting your teams, tools, and processes.

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Discover vein-based password technology: A deep dive into its security features, development aspects, and expert opinions on its role in future authentication systems.

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Demystifying Enterprise IAM: Learn the core concepts, benefits, and implementation strategies for effective identity and access management in your organization.

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Cyber insurance is no longer just a safety net; it’s a catalyst for change. With premiums climbing and coverage shrinking, insurers are forcing organizations to modernize security operations, embrace AI-driven risk quantification, and tighten governance. Here’s how forward-looking leaders are turning insurance pain into long-term resilience. 

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ReliaQuest’s Threat Spotlight: How Automation, Customization, and Tooling Signal Next Ransomware exposes how elite Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) groups thrive. Automation, advanced tools, and attack customization attract top affiliates and drive faster, more effective ransomware operations.

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The rapid rise of AI and automation has helped create a new breed of researcher — the bionic hacker. Think of a Steve Austen-type researcher, only instead of body parts replaced by machines, human creativity is being augmented by automation.   These bionic hackers use “AI as a catalyst, accelerating recon, triage, scaling pattern recognition, and..

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Learn how proxy servers enhance authentication security by filtering traffic, supporting MFA, enabling Zero Trust, and protecting against cyber threats.

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Discover the top IT asset management companies of 2025. Compare Alloy, ServiceNow, Ivanti, Freshworks, and SysAid to find the best ITAM solution for your business.

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In episode 404 (no pun intended!) we discuss the recurring issue of DNS outages, the recent Amazon AWS disruption, and what this reveals about our dependency on cloud services. The conversation touches on the need for tested business continuity plans, the implications of DNS failures, and the misconceptions around cloud infrastructure’s automatic failover capabilities. ** […]

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Explore the key differences between facial recognition and passkeys for authentication. Understand their unique concepts, security implications, and use cases in software development.

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Discover how Single Sign-On (SSO) simplifies user authentication, enhances security, and reduces IT overhead. Learn about SSO protocols, implementation strategies, and security best practices.

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How Can Access Management Revolutionize Team Empowerment? What if the key to unlocking your team’s full potential lies in how you manage access to your digital assets? The effective management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) is not just a technical necessity but a strategic imperative for organizations across various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and DevOps […]

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How Does Effective Secrets Management Enhance Robust Security? Have you ever considered the impact of non-human identities in your organization’s security framework? While human factors in cybersecurity get a lot of attention, it’s increasingly crucial to understand the role of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their secrets to ensure robust security for your cloud-based environments. NHIs, […]

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How Can Organizations Achieve Scalable Security in Cloud Environments? The increasing reliance on cloud environments means organizations face an unprecedented need for scalable security solutions. One of the more complex challenges is managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs). These machine identities are pivotal in automating tasks and connecting different services, yet they often present security gaps due […]

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Authors, Creators & Presenters: Shixin Song (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Joseph Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Mengjia Yan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Oreo: Protecting ASLR Against Microarchitectural Attacks
Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is one of the most prominently deployed mitigations against memory corruption attacks. ASLR randomly shuffles program virtual addresses to prevent attackers from knowing the location of program contents in memory. Microarchitectural side channels have been shown to defeat ASLR through various hardware mechanisms. We systematically analyze existing microarchitectural attacks and identify multiple leakage paths. Given the vast attack surface exposed by ASLR, it is challenging to effectively prevent leaking the ASLR secret against microarchitectural attacks. Motivated by this, we present Oreo, a software-hardware co-design mitigation that strengthens ASLR against these attacks. Oreo uses a new memory mapping interface to remove secret randomized bits in virtual addresses before translating them to their corresponding physical addresses. This extra step hides randomized virtual addresses from microarchitecture structures, preventing side channels from leaking ASLR secrets. Oreo is transparent to user programs and incurs low overhead. We prototyped and evaluated our design on Linux using the hardware simulator gem5.

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Authors, Creators & Presenters: Maximilian von Tschirschnitz (Technical University of Munich), Ludwig Peuckert (Technical University of Munich), Moritz Buhl (Technical University of Munich), Jens Grossklags (Technical University of Munich)

Session 1A, PAPER Rediscovering Method Confusion in Proposed Security Fixes for Bluetooth
Previous works have shown that Bluetooth is susceptible to so-called Method Confusion attacks. These attacks manipulate devices into conducting conflicting key establishment methods, leading to compromised keys. An increasing amount of security-sensitive applications, like payment terminals, organizational asset tracking systems and conferencing technologies now rely on the availability of a technology like Bluetooth. It is thus an urgent goal to find and validate a mitigation to these attacks or to provide an appropriate replacement for Bluetooth without introducing additional requirements that exclude device or user groups. Despite recent solution proposals, existing threat models overlook certain attack vectors or dismiss important scenarios and consequently suffer under new variants of Method Confusion. We first propose an extended threat model that appreciates the root issue of Method Confusion and also considers multiple pairing attempts and one-sided pairings as security risks. Evaluating existing solution proposals with our threat model, we are able to detect known Method Confusion attacks, and identify new vulnerabilities in previous solution proposals. We demonstrate the viability of these attacks on real-world Bluetooth devices. We further discuss a novel solution approach offering enhanced security, while maintaining compatibility with existing hardware and Bluetooth user behavior. We conduct a formal security proof of our proposal and implement it on commonplace Bluetooth hardware, positioning it as the currently most promising update proposal for Bluetooth.

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How can you be a cyber-smart parent? In this interview with Chad Rychlewski, the co-author of a new book, we unpack what family online protection looks like in 2025.  

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