Vanessa Cases (Switzerland Country Manager - VirtualBrowser)

Asymmetric defense: stop chasing an attacker you'll never catch again

10/01/2026 | 15h00 -> 15h40 | Room A Forum: Cybersecurity & Digital Trust

Artificial intelligence has just tipped the balance of power in cybersecurity.

Attackers now discover and exploit vulnerabilities within hours, while detection takes months and remediation even longer. In a game where the defender must win everywhere, all the time, and the attacker only once, playing the same game harder means losing faster. This talk explores a paradigm shift that a growing number of CISOs are taking seriously: asymmetric defense. Rather than recognizing the threat, we make it inoperative by design — by changing the playing field. We will look at why the browser, now the primary work environment, is the blind spot of modern architectures (Defender, proxy, device management), and how isolation addresses it without any constraint for the user. Field feedback included.

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