Elliot Kartus is the technical lead for Cockroach Lab's Corporate Security team. As a Staff Corporate Security Engineer, Elliot's focus is on maintaining the security posture of Cockroach Labs endpoints, email systems, SaaS applications, and more. Corporate Security is focused on constant risk reduction and working with every team at CRL to improve security and spread best practices. Elliot has been working in IT since he was a teenager poking holes in his home router configuration to better play Counter Strike online. In his spare time, Elliot continues to be a gamer and avid sim racer, when not giving attention to his dog Otto.
Engineering
Preventing the Breach: Vulnerability Management at Cockroach Labs
Many customers approach the Cockroach Labs Account teams and the security and compliance teams with questions around vulnerabilities their preferred security scanners have identified. This blog post looks to demystify the space, explain what vulnerabilities are and more importantly, how Cockroach Labs triages vulnerabilities and addresses them in our daily operational cadence.
Elliot Kartus
February 13, 2025