S4E1: Resilient Cyber w/ Stephen Carter

In the premiere of Resilient Cyber's Season 4, Chris Hughes and Dr. Nikki Robinson welcome Stephen Carter, co-founder and CEO of Nucleus Security, to explore the current landscape of vulnerability management. Stephen shares his insights on modernizing vulnerability management in a cloud-driven world, the integration of threat intelligence, and how to build a risk-based approach to prioritizing vulnerabilities.

🔑 Key Highlights:

• Holistic Vulnerability Management: How to manage vulnerabilities across complex environments, including cloud security, product security, and OT devices.

• Threat Intelligence Integration: The growing importance of threat intelligence feeds like CISA’s KEV and EPS, and how they enhance vulnerability prioritization.

• SSVC Framework: What is the Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC), and how it helps organizations prioritize risk more effectively.

• Vulnerability Management Challenges: Why patching known vulnerabilities is still an issue and how enterprises can overcome common challenges with asset management and tool sprawl.

Tools & Resources Mentioned:

• Nucleus Security: A platform focused on automating risk-based vulnerability management.

• CISA KEV: CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

• EPS and SSVC: Threat intelligence scoring systems to enhance vulnerability prioritization.