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<h1>Exploring Real-World Challenges: Insights from Product Security Leaders – PBC Virtual</h1>

Unlike traditional AppSec, product security must address embedded systems, long hardware lifecycles, and multi-layered firmware and software dependencies—where decisions made during early design can have long-term consequences.

**This session explores:**

- How product security fundamentally differs from application security
- Organizational models (centralized vs. matrixed) used to manage risk across hardware, firmware, and software
- Why assessing risk during the design phase is critical before code is committed or chips are selected
- The real-world trade-offs between security and delivery in industries where patching can take months or years
- How GenAI and agentic AI are being used to enhance testing, validation, and coverage