VulnCon 2026 returns to DoubleTree Resort by Hilton Paradise Valley, Scottsdale, AZ, on April 13–16, 2026. Organized by FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams), VulnCon brings together the world’s leading vulnerability researchers, coordinators, and security practitioners to tackle the hardest problems in CVE, CVSS, and vulnerability management.
Real-world session: Threat-Centric Vulnerability Management at Scale
Modern vulnerability programs are drowning in data, not insights. Scanners surface thousands of findings. CVSS scores are gamed by vendors. Teams spend more time triaging noise than fixing what matters.
This 60-minute session features Francesco Cipollone (Phoenix Security) delivering a threat-centric framework that reorients vulnerability management around what attackers actually exploit — not what scores are highest.
Forget theory. You’ll hear how organizations cut through the noise using reachability analysis, threat intelligence integration, and risk-based prioritization that scales from code to cloud.
You’ll learn how to:
Key takeaways:
Who will benefit from this?
This session is designed for CISOs, vulnerability managers, AppSec engineers, security architects, and DevSecOps practitioners who are:
Speaker
Francesco Cipollone — CEO & Founder, Phoenix Security
Francesco brings deep practitioner experience from HSBC, AWS, and Phoenix Security — shaping how organizations manage risk from code to runtime. His work sits at the intersection of threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and developer-aligned security programs. At VulnCon 2026, he continues his series on threat-centric approaches that move security teams from reactive triage to intentional risk reduction.
Event snapshot:
📅 Date: April 15, 2026.
📍 Location: Center Ballroom, VulnCon 2026 — DoubleTree Resort by Hilton Paradise Valley, Scottsdale, AZ.
🕐 Format: 60-minute talk, 10:30–11:30 am.
👥 Who Should Attend? Security Engineers, CISOs, Vulnerability Managers, AppSec Practitioners, Threat Intelligence Teams.
Don’t miss it
Join Francesco Cipollone at one of VulnCon’s most anticipated sessions — combining real-world exploitation data, live Q&A, and a clear framework your team can apply the moment you return to the office.
And don’t miss Phoenix Security at the conference. Stay tuned for more details on where to find us.
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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.
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 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.
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.
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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