The Asymmetric Advantage: How Cybersecurity Can Outpace Adversaries

Podcast: Exploited: The Cyber Truth Episode: The Asymmetric Advantage: How Cybersecurity Can Outpace AdversariesPub date: 2025-12-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode of Exploited: The Cyber Truth, host Paul Ducklin sits down with RunSafe Founder and CEO Joseph M. Saunders to explore why the future of cyber defense depends on disrupting attacker economics rather than racing to keep up with every new threat. Joe breaks down how organizations can gain an asymmetric advantage by reducing exploitability across entire classes of vulnerabilities, especially persistent memory safety flaws that continue to expose critical systems. He shares why adding lightweight, automated protections at build time is one of the fastest ways to shift the cost curve onto attackers without forcing massive code rewrites or slowing development teams down. Together, Paul and Joe discuss: Why attackers’ resource advantage requires a new defensive mindsetThe power of “patchless” protection in embedded and OT environmentsWhy memory safety flaws persist and how to neutralize them at scaleThe risks of AI-generated code and how to prevent silent vulnerabilitiesHow Secure by Design practices improve resilience for critical infrastructure If you're responsible for securing embedded systems, OT assets, or long-lived devices where patch cycles are slow and risk is high, this episode offers a new mindset that gives defenders the upper hand.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from RunSafe Security, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.