The cybersecurity landscape is drowning in vulnerabilities—many of them preventable. CISA’s Secure by Design initiative calls on software manufacturers to take ownership of security outcomes, yet organizations still deploy applications riddled with exploitable flaws. This session, based on The CISO Guide to Cyber Resilience, will provide a real-world playbook for implementing Secure by Design principles, focusing on secure coding, Zero Trust, DLP, and third-party risk management. Learn how small changes—like ensuring outsourced developers use EDR and MDM at minimum, and Zero Trust/DLP at best—can drastically reduce attack surfaces. Attendees will gain actionable strategies to shift security left in the SDLC, demand better from vendors, and embed resilience into software architecture. Call to action: Stop fixing vulnerabilities—start preventing them.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to implement Secure by Design principles to proactively eliminate vulnerabilities, reducing reliance on post-deployment patches.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to enforce security requirements for third-party developers and vendors, ensuring baseline protections like EDR, Zero Trust, and DLP.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to integrate security into every phase of the SDLC, shifting security left to build resilient, attack-resistant software by default.
