Disruption is Coming for the Vulnerability Management Market - Tod Beardsley - ESW #425

Disruption is Coming for the Vulnerability Management Market - Tod Beardsley - ESW #425

Author: Security Weekly Productions September 22, 2025 Duration: 1:47:15

Interview with Tod Beardsley

This interview is sponsored by runZero.

Legacy vulnerability management (VM) hasn't innovated alongside of attackers, and it shows. Let's talk about the state of VM.

Check out https://securityweekly.com/runzero to learn more!

Topic Segment: NPM Incidents

In this week's topic segment, we're discussing all the NPM supply chain attacks from the past 3 weeks.

I recently published a roundup of these incidents over on my Substack.

Weekly Enterprise News

Finally, in the enterprise security news,

  1. funding and acquisitions are going crazy
  2. an exciting new canarytoken
  3. banks have a more sedate approach to agentic
  4. MCP security
  5. the future Subprime Code crash of 2028
  6. is security worried about the wrong risks?
  7. botnets are back in the headlines
  8. some bs research
  9. journalists getting duped by AI
  10. Animal crossing villagers are organizing against Tom Nook

All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-425


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