On-Demand Webcast|1 hour

Archived: Breaking the cycle: From vulnerability triage to real risk reduction

Attendees will learn:

  • Why containerization, cloud-native adoption, and AI-driven development have multiplied vulnerabilities and exposure risks.
  • Practical strategies for moving beyond endless prioritization to actual risk reduction.
  • How secure design practices and modern DevSecOps can shrink the attack surface more effectively than after-the-fact fixes.
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Security teams today spend the bulk of their time reacting — triaging vulnerabilities, chasing alerts, and trying to prioritize which issues to fix first. The rise of containers and cloud-native architectures has only amplified the problem, multiplying the number of artifacts and attack vectors.

Now, with organizations rapidly adopting AI, risks are further compounded. AI can accelerate code creation and deployment, but it also increases the chance that misconfigurations, insecure patterns, and exposed assets slip into production.

This webcast will examine why traditional “scan and prioritize” models no longer cut it, and what it takes to shift toward true risk reduction.

Attendees will gain prescriptive guidance on how to move beyond endless triage by emphasizing secure design upfront, integrating DevSecOps best practices, and reducing reliance on non-deterministic fixes after the fact.

Event Speakers

Patrick Maddox
VP of Solutions Architecture at Minimus

Patrick Maddox is an accomplished technology leader with extensive experience in solutions architecture and field engineering across the cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure sectors. He currently serves as VP of Solutions Architecture at Minimus, where he leads strategic technical initiatives and customer engagement efforts.

Prior to Minimus, Patrick held senior leadership roles at high-growth tech companies, including Sr. Director of Solutions Engineering for the Americas at Wiz, and Sr. Director of Field Engineering at Torq, where he helped scale technical teams and drive enterprise adoption. He also held engineering leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks, following its acquisition of Twistlock, where he served as Sr. Director of Solutions Architecture.

With over a decade of experience bridging technical expertise and business outcomes, Patrick is known for building high-performing teams and delivering innovative solutions that support growth at scale. He is based in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area.

Neil Carpenter
Field CTO at Minimus

Neil helps organizations identify and contain security risks in their cloud estates. His passion for getting ahead of security problems comes from over a decade of leading customer-facing security incident response teams at Microsoft and seeing what happens when attackers win. Neil also helped build the future of cloud-native security at Twistlock, StackRox, Torq, and Orca Security before joining Minimus. When he’s not in front of a computer, Neil is an avid NYC-based street photographer.

Adrian Sanabria
Principal Researcher at The Defenders Initiative

Adrian is an outspoken researcher that doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable truths. He loves to write about the security industry, tell stories, and still sees the glass as half full.