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Secure By Design? At RSAC 2025, Experts Warn: We're Not Winning Yet, But We Could

SC Media, Monday, April 28th, 2025

After five decades of cybersecurity evolution, attackers are still winning more often than defenders - and the clock is ticking to change that.

That was the urgent warning from Veracode founder Chris Wysopal and Columbia University's Jason Healey during their RSA Conference 2025 talk, 'Secure by Design: Are We Winning?' Spoiler: Not yet.

'None of the known red team efforts have ever failed,' Wysopal reminded the audience, citing chilling assessments that date all the way back to 1972. 'Even today, contemporary controls often can't stop attackers from walking right in.'

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