Vulnerability Prioritization Can Produce Better Business Outcomes – Greg Fitzgerald, Steve Lodin – BSW #389
Vulnerability prioritization, the final frontier. Many say they do it, but do they really? It takes way more than vulnerability data to truly prioritize vulnerabilities.
Greg Fitzgerald, Co-Founder and CXO at Sevco Security, and Steve Lodin , Vice President, Information Security at Sallie Mae, join Business Security Weekly to dig in. We'll discuss the importance of context, including asset inventory and configuration management, in truly prioritizing vulnerabilities. But it's not that easy. We'll discuss the challenges and approaches to help solve this ever evasive topic.
This segment is sponsored by Sevco Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/sevco to learn more about them!
Segment Resources: https://www.sevcosecurity.com/vulnerability-prioritization/ https://www.sevcosecurity.com/continuous-threat-exposure-management/
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Guests
Greg “Fitz” Fitzgerald is the Chief Experience Officer and co-founder of Sevco Security. He is a veteran IT and Security executive with successful tours at TippingPoint, BMC Software, Fortinet, and Sourcefire. Fitz was the founding CMO at Cylance and JASK.
Steve Lodin is Vice President of Information Security at Sallie Mae. He has more than thirty years of experience implementing defense-in-depth strategies focused on Security, Risk, Compliance, and Governance. He leads teams that protect corporate systems and customer-sensitive data in the cloud. Steve holds a master’s degree in computer science from Purdue University where he was a member of the COAST/CERIAS program.