Speaker: Nishawn Smagh 

Cyber defenders are increasingly operating in an environment where the time between vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and widespread exploitation continues to shrink. 

Traditional cybersecurity models often place defenders in a reactive position: a vulnerability is disclosed, indicators of compromise emerge, security teams assess exposure, and organizations race to patch or mitigate affected systems. For internet-facing infrastructure such as firewalls, VPNs, remote-access gateways, and other edge technologies, that response window can be particularly compressed.

 By the time exploitation is broadly recognized, adversaries may already have conducted substantial reconnaissance, tested capabilities, identified potential targets, ...