David McLeod: The state of vulnerability management

In this first episode, VP, Chief Information Security Officer at Cox Enterprises, David McLeod, discusses how we might fall short in the future of vulnerability management. 

David reflects on how the vulnerability management field is in its infancy and speculates on some of the top challenges faced by VM professionals today, and the best way to collaborate with the organization’s IT security to address them. 

This episode gives vulnerability management professionals the essential tools to anticipate and address some of the primary challenges in their jobs today. David shares how an organization can build a fully mature VM program. 

Topics include: 

- Ways that VM isn’t scaling

- Unexpected lessons from the car industry 

- Why vulnerability management field is only in its infancy 

- Top challenges facing VM professionals today 

- Collaborating with the IT security team as VM professionals

- Producing a fully mature VM program at an organization 

- How to not just survive each patch cycle, but to thrive in VM 

- David’s predictions on the future of VM 

- Why repeatable process is integral and how to get there 

- David’s advice for security practitioners