When It Hits the Fan: From Vulnerability Triage to Threat Hunt with Carahsoft

When a critical vulnerability hit, federal security teams didn't have the luxury of time. Neal Dennis, VulnCheck's Sr. Customer Success Engineer, Federal / Threat Intelligence Specialist, walked through a live vulnerability intelligence workflow built for the moments that mattered most.

Using real-world federal workflows as a guide, we traced the full response loop from packages to CPEs to vulnerabilities, showing how VulnCheck data enabled teams to quickly stopgap exposure, execute mitigation, and shift into active defense. From there, we demonstrated how that same intelligence powered a structured threat hunt across the network, using artifacts and adversary indicators to confirm whether mitigations held or whether something else was going on.

Whether you're a security engineer, analyst, or program lead supporting federal infrastructure, this session showed what a modern, intelligence-driven response looks like from triage to threat hunt.