Federal and defense organizations face persistent nation-state threats, expanding attack surfaces, and increasingly AI-enabled adversaries. While compliance remains necessary, it was never designed to reflect real-time operational risk. Agencies are now at an inflection point where cybersecurity must move beyond periodic compliance and reactive incident response toward a continuous, mission-aligned risk model that prioritizes prevention and security by design. This keynote will outline the next evolution of federal cyber operations through the Federal Risk Operations Center (ROC) and a shift from SOC-centric response to unified risk operations. The session will explore how agencies can integrate visibility, telemetry, threat intelligence, and compliance data into a continuous decision-making model that enables proactive prevention, measurable security outcomes, and reduced mission risk, and will introduce the Federal ROC White Paper and practical steps to begin this transition.