The common narrative suggests we’re locked in a perpetual cycle of hackers attacking and defenders reacting. But the real cycle begins much earlier—with the relentless rollout of new features, enhancements, and technologies. By the time we reach the seventh or eighth iteration, vulnerabilities emerge, and attackers strike. This session offers a historical lens on this reactive pattern and introduces how modern threat modeling—specifically the IDART framework—can help break the cycle before exploitation occurs.

In this session you will:

• Gain a historical perspective on the feature-to-exploit lifecycle and why traditional defense is often too late
• Understand the role of proactive threat modeling in identifying risk earlier in the development process
• Learn how the IDART framework can be applied to disrupt the hack-react cycle and embed security into innovation from the start