Decoding Cybersecurity: Phoenix Security’s Data-Driven Vulnerability Analysis for Cybersecurity Awareness Month

cyber awareness month, owasp, cisa kev, application security, vulnerability management, exploitability. Introduction

October marks the arrival of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Phoenix Security is leading the charge with a groundbreaking approach on application security and vulnerability management, OWASP Top 10, CISA Kev and much more. This series of pages and events will focus on a data-driven approach across CISA KEV, Exploitability, Vulnerability management, CWE and more. We’re diving into the data that informs our grasp of vulnerabilities, exploitability, and application security.


The Importance of a Data-Driven Approach

In cybersecurity, terms like OWASP, CISA KEV, and exploitability often float around, creating a fog of confusion. That’s why we’re zeroing in on the data behind these buzzwords part of the Cybersecurity Awareness mission of Phoenix Security. As Franchesco, our CEO, aptly puts it, “Trust no one; trust only the data.”


What’s on the Agenda for Cybersecurity Awareness Month In October

Watch our introductory video here

Each week during Cybersecurity Awareness Month of October 2023, we’ll dissect a different dataset pivotal for understanding the cybersecurity landscape:


How to Engage during Cybersecurity Awareness Month


Deep-Dive Analyses of Application and Vulnerability Management Data


Why does data matter during Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Cyber Awareness means understanding the data behind application security and vulnerability management empowers you to make informed decisions. Our Cyber Awareness Month campaign aims to demystify these complex topics and offer actionable, data-driven insights.


Conclusion

We invite you to join us on this enlightening, data-driven journey throughout Cyber Awareness Month. Together, we can make the digital realm safer, one dataset at a time.


How Phoenix Security Can Help:

Phoenix Security is a platform that collects information from various sources, contextualizes, and prioritizes vulnerabilities from code to the cloud leveraging CVSS 3, CWE, Contextual information, Cyber threat intelligence.

With Phoenix Security, you don’t need to worry about which source of vulnerability gets flagged, Phoenix highlights those vulnerabilities for you.

If you want to know more about Phoenix security and doing vulnerability management at scale, contact us https://phoenix.security/request-a-demo/ 

Francesco is an internationally renowned public speaker, with multiple interviews in high-profile publications (eg. Forbes), and an author of numerous books and articles, who utilises his platform to evangelize the importance of Cloud security and cutting-edge technologies on a global scale.

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Derek Fisher

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Derek Fisher – Head of product security at a global fintech. Speaker, instructor, and author in application security.

Derek is an award winning author of a children’s book series in cybersecurity as well as the author of “The Application Security Handbook.” He is a university instructor at Temple University where he teaches software development security to undergraduate and graduate students. He is a speaker on topics in the cybersecurity space and has led teams, large and small, at organizations in the healthcare and financial industries. He has built and matured information security teams as well as implemented organizational information security strategies to reduce the organizations risk.

Derek got his start in the hardware engineering space where he learned about designing circuits and building assemblies for commercial and military applications. He later pursued a computer science degree in order to advance a career in software development. This is where Derek was introduced to cybersecurity and soon caught the bug. He found a mentor to help him grow in cybersecurity and then pursued a graduate degree in the subject.

Since then Derek has worked in the product security space as an architect and leader. He has led teams to deliver more secure software in organizations from multiple industries. His focus has been to raise the security awareness of the engineering organization while maintaining a practice of secure code development, delivery, and operations.

In his role, Jeevan handles a range of tasks, from architecting security solutions to collaborating with Engineering Leadership to address security vulnerabilities at scale and embed security into the fabric of the organization.

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Jeevan Singh

Founder of Manicode Security

Jeevan Singh is the Director of Security Engineering at Rippling, with a background spanning various Engineering and Security leadership roles over the course of his career. He’s dedicated to the integration of security practices into software development, working to create a security-aware culture within organizations and imparting security best practices to the team.
In his role, Jeevan handles a range of tasks, from architecting security solutions to collaborating with Engineering Leadership to address security vulnerabilities at scale and embed security into the fabric of the organization.

James

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James Berthoty has over ten years of experience across product and security domains. He founded Latio Tech to help companies find the right security tools for their needs without vendor bias.

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Senior Cloud Security Architect

Senior Cloud Security Architect

Chris

Chris Romeo

Co-Founder
Security Journey

Chris Romeo is a leading voice and thinker in application security, threat modeling, and security champions and the CEO of Devici and General Partner at Kerr Ventures. Chris hosts the award-winning “Application Security Podcast,” “The Security Table,” and “The Threat Modeling Podcast” and is a highly rated industry speaker and trainer, featured at the RSA Conference, the AppSec Village @ DefCon, OWASP Global AppSec, ISC2 Security Congress, InfoSec World and All Day DevOps. Chris founded Security Journey, a security education company, leading to an exit in 2022. Chris was the Chief Security Advocate at Cisco, spreading security knowledge through education and champion programs. Chris has twenty-six years of security experience, holding positions across the gamut, including application security, security engineering, incident response, and various Executive roles. Chris holds the CISSP and CSSLP certifications.

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Jim Manico

Founder of Manicode Security

Jim Manico is the founder of Manicode Security, where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. Jim is also the founder of Brakeman Security, Inc. and an investor/advisor for Signal Sciences. He is the author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications (McGraw-Hill), a frequent speaker on secure software practices, and a member of the JavaOne Rockstar speaker community. Jim is also a volunteer for and former board member of the OWASP foundation.

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