Michael Novinson

@MichaelNovinson

I cover the vendor and technology landscape for

@ISMG_News

including M&A, startups and key trends, with a focus on what’s relevant for CISOs. mnovinson@ismg.io

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I’m excited to share that I’ve joined

@ISMGCorp

as Managing Editor, Business, where I’ll be covering the vendor and technology landscape including M&A, startups, and key trends, with a focus on what’s relevant for CISOs. Please send news tips or story ideas to mnovinson@ismg.io

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Proofpoint

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Illusive Networks, a leader in identity threat detection and response, is the latest acquisition by Proofpoint. In this

@InfoRiskToday

interview, Proofpoint CEO, Ashan Willy, explains how the move fits into Proofpoint's strategy and portfolio.

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Proofpoint CEO on Thwarting Post-Compromise Lateral Movement

Proofpoint has focused on preventing cyberattacks, but customers have increasingly asked for help with blocking lateral movement from compromised identities, says

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Rashmi Ramesh

@rashmiramesh_

Companies can be blinded by their inside-out view and often benefit from another set of eyes that see their business the same way an attacker would,

@IBM

's Mary O'Brien tells

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IBM Security GM on Seeing a Target Through the Hacker's Eyes

Companies can be blinded by their inside-out view and often benefit from another set of eyes that see their business the same way an attacker would, says IBM's Mary

CEO on Why It's Tough to Defend Sensitive Assets: inforisktoday.com/crowdstrike-ce "The overall goal is to help customers really understand what they have, how to protect it and make sure that it becomes seamless within the Falcon console,"

@George_Kurtz

tells

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CrowdStrike CEO on Why It's Tough to Defend Sensitive Assets

Organizations today struggle with both new attack surface challenges such as cloud configuration and exposed buckets and long-standing ones around vulnerable ports

GM on Seeing a Target Through the Hacker's Eyes: inforisktoday.com/ibm-security-g "The CTO of this whole business spent his life doing penetration testing and offensive security, and now we've basically got his mind in software," Mary O'Brien tells

@ISMG_News

@IBM

$IBM

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IBM Security GM on Seeing a Target Through the Hacker's Eyes

Companies can be blinded by their inside-out view and often benefit from another set of eyes that see their business the same way an attacker would, says IBM's Mary

on Having a Consistent Design at

@CiscoSecure

: inforisktoday.com/jeetu-patel-on "If you want to democratize security, you have to make sure that the layman who doesn't think about security 24/7 can find it intuitive to use," Patel tells

$CSCO

Jeetu Patel on Having a Consistent Design at Cisco Security

Cisco plans to debut a common design language across its network and security offerings so that products such as Cisco Meraki and Umbrella will no longer look or

CEO

on How

' SaaS Migration Helps Customers: inforisktoday.com/ceo-faitelson- "We believe it's just a complete game changer. We can now offer a world-class SaaS platform that will enable our customers to get to a lot of automated value," Faitelson tells

@ISMG_News

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CEO Faitelson on How Varonis' SaaS Migration Helps Customers

Varonis has dedicated most of its engineering resources to SaaS since the onset of COVID-19 to provide more automation to customers, says CEO Yaki Faitelson. The

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@goretsky

Feb 3

Interesting interview with my boss's boss's boss's boss. (I think I got that right)

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CEO on How the Russia-Ukraine War Has Affected @ESET: inforisktoday.com/ceo-marko-on-h "It was not only about the regular stuff that was happening anywhere, but really the attacks on infrastructure. And those attacks can be easily deployed anywhere in the world," Marko tells @ISMG_News.

CEO Ashan Willy on Thwarting Post-Compromise Lateral Movement: inforisktoday.com/proofpoint-ceo "We do some very extensive analysis when we make acquisitions, and

@illusivenw

's tech stack is an excellent tech stack," CEO

tells

Proofpoint CEO on Thwarting Post-Compromise Lateral Movement

Proofpoint has focused on preventing cyberattacks, but customers have increasingly asked for help with blocking lateral movement from compromised identities, says

CEO on the Need to Consolidate Cloud Security Technology: inforisktoday.com/wiz-ceo-on-nee "What helped us reach this $100 million annual recurring revenue milestone in such a fast way is thinking about the cloud security problem as a platform,"

@assaf_rappaport

tells

@ISMG_News

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Wiz CEO on the Need to Consolidate Cloud Security Technology

The cloud security landscape has long been fragmented, and different vendors attempt to separately address containers, serverless and vulnerabilities, says Wiz CEO

CEO on Opening Execs' Eyes to OT Security Threats: databreachtoday.com/dragos-ceo-on- "Execs understand they've not been investing heavily in the operational technology side of their business, even though that's where they generate their revenue,"

@RobertMLee

tells

@ISMG_News

databreachtoday.com

Dragos CEO on Opening Execs' Eyes to OT Security Threats

Executives underestimated the security risk associated with operational technology based on the erroneous belief that OT networks are highly segmented or air

CEO on Bringing Application, API Security Together: inforisktoday.com/checkmarx-ceo- "It comes back to innovation and research. If you don't do research and you don't look for these things, you're just going to be followers in that industry," CEO Benzaquen tells

@ISMG_News

inforisktoday.com

Checkmarx CEO on Bringing Application, API Security Together

Organizations have struggled to understand why APIs are so strategic even though they're an intrinsic way businesses interface with their software, according to

CEO on Enriching the SIEM With UEBA and Threat Intel inforisktoday.com/splunk-ceo-on- "The world of the old-school SIEM has fundamentally changed. It's really become a platform where you're driving broader adoption of a broad range of capabilities,"

@garylsteele

tells

@ISMG_News

inforisktoday.com

Splunk CEO on Enriching the SIEM With UEBA and Threat Intel

Splunk has infused its SIEM with user behavior analytics and threat intelligence to better identify anomalies and understand what's going on in a customer's

CEO on How to Prioritize Cloud Infrastructure Risks: inforisktoday.com/lacework-ceo-o "There's always more stuff to investigate, more stuff to fix, more stuff to organize and to report on than there are capable people on your team to do it all,"

@jayparikh

tells

@ISMG_News

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Lacework CEO on How to Prioritize Cloud Infrastructure Risks

Lacework has debuted an attack path analysis tool to help organizations understand the havoc specific threats could wreak within their cloud infrastructure, says

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Feb 2

CEO on How the Russia-Ukraine War Has Affected

@ESET

: inforisktoday.com/ceo-marko-on-h "It was not only about the regular stuff that was happening anywhere, but really the attacks on infrastructure. And those attacks can be easily deployed anywhere in the world," Marko tells

@ISMG_News

inforisktoday.com

CEO Marko on How the Russia-Ukraine War Has Affected Eset

The Russia-Ukraine war has had huge economic consequences for Eset, given that the Slovakian vendor was the largest cybersecurity company in Ukraine and

Lays Off 300 Employees After Sales Execution Challenges: inforisktoday.com/okta-lays-off- "We will operate our business in a way that enables us to execute through any market condition. That means reducing spend & improving our profitability," says

@toddmckinnon

$OKTA

@ISMG_News

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Okta Lays Off 300 Employees After Sales Execution Challenges

Okta will execute the third-largest round of layoffs of any cybersecurity company in the current economic downturn, axing 300 workers following customer identity

Taps Ex-

CEO

to Replace Orion Hindawi: inforisktoday.com/tanium-taps-ti "Founding and leading Tanium as its chief executive officer has been an honor, both personally and professionally," says Hindawi, who had been CEO since 2016.

@ISMG_News

inforisktoday.com

Tanium Taps Tibco CEO Dan Streetman to Replace Orion Hindawi

For the first time in 17 years, day-to-day control at converged endpoint management provider Tanium rests outside the Hindawi family. The Seattle-area company named

CEO on Bringing XDR to the Masses: inforisktoday.com/bitdefender-ce "If you can reduce the volume of alerts by having very strong prevention, that means the XDR solution is way more accessible. You need less resources and less skills to manage it," Talpes tells

@ISMG_News

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Bitdefender CEO Florin Talpes on Bringing XDR to the Masses

Incumbent XDR platforms target large enterprises with access to a full security operations center, threat hunters and incident response teams, says Bitdefender CEO

CEO on Fighting Ransomware via Endpoint Segmentation: databreachtoday.com/illumio-ceo-on "Customers will use Illumio Core to ring-fence or segment. On the endpoint, one of the most common uses is simply stopping one endpoint from talking to other endpoints," says

@andrewsrubin

databreachtoday.com

Illumio CEO on Fighting Ransomware via Endpoint Segmentation

Illumio has extended its segmentation capabilities from servers and workloads to endpoints to minimize damage in the event of a ransomware attack, CEO Andrew Rubin

CEO on How to Lower the SaaS, Identity Attack Surface: inforisktoday.com/vectra-ceo-on- "If you're going to make it scalable, you really have to address the noise-to-signal ratio very effectively. And that is what we've been focused on,"

@hitesh_vectra

tells

@ISMG_News

inforisktoday.com

Vectra CEO on How to Lower the SaaS, Identity Attack Surface

Cybersecurity vendors have gone all-in on reducing the cloud attack surface, but efforts to shrink the SaaS and identity attack surface remain in their infancy.

Pursues Identity Governance With

@Brainwave_GRC

Buy: inforisktoday.com/radiant-logic- "Customers are spending a lot of money on the traditional identity governance and administration products, and yet from a value perspective, it's not really lining up."

@ISMG_News

inforisktoday.com

Radiant Logic Pursues Identity Governance With Brainwave Buy

Radiant Logic has agreed to buy Brainwave to move from an attestation-based identity governance model to once that more rigorously ensures the appropriateness of

CEO on Unifying Endpoint, SecOps and Data Protection: inforisktoday.com/trellix-ceo-on "I think we're going to be seen as a leader in XDR because of the portfolio that we have and our ability to bring those together," CEO

tells

Trellix CEO on Unifying Endpoint, SecOps and Data Protection

Trellix will debut a console that offers endpoint, security operations and data protection capabilities and a plug-in for network detection and response. The

Exec

on Pursuing Single-Vendor #SASE: inforisktoday.com/juniper-exec-s "A lot of the vendors talk about SASE as a product. SASE is actually an architecture that connects both SD-WAN and security," Madrid tells

@ISMG_News

@InfoRiskToday

$JNPR

inforisktoday.com

Juniper Exec Samantha Madrid on Pursuing Single-Vendor SASE

Juniper Networks has debuted security service edge capabilities that help clients consistently apply zero trust policies in the cloud regardless of the user or

CEO

on Making Defense Easier for Developers: inforisktoday.com/snyk-ceo-peter "We think developer security remains highly fragmented. We see an opportunity for us to continue to aggressively build that road map organically and inorganically," McKay tells

@ISMG_News

inforisktoday.com

Snyk CEO Peter McKay on Making Defense Easier for Developers

The nearly $200 million it raised in December will allow Snyk to consolidate the developer security market through organic investment and M&A, says CEO Peter McKay.

Exec Sagnik Nandy on Protecting the Extended Workforce: inforisktoday.com/okta-exec-sagn "In a setup where everyone can bring in their own device and there's a proliferation of the types of operating systems and devices, you need a neutral solution," Nandy tells

@ISMG_News

inforisktoday.com

Okta Exec Sagnik Nandy on Protecting the Extended Workforce

The standard guardrails organizations use to protect employee identities are often ineffective for contractors, business partners or vendors since they bring their

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Michelle Chen

@MImpactMichelle

Jan 31

By acquiring Guardicore,

@Akamai

has gone beyond protecting public-facing web content and APIs to safeguarding internal applications and data. Learn more.

@TomLeightonAKAM

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Jan 31

Founder Sachin Nayyar back as CEO of identity vendor Saviynt bit.ly/3HmsYot

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Founder Sachin Nayyar Back as CEO of Identity Vendor Saviynt

Saviynt has brought founder and longtime leader Sachin Nayyar back as its chief executive to govern access around privileged, machine and third-party identities.

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Mathew J Schwartz

@euroinfosec

Jan 31

Focusing on #cybersecurity prevention: Tenable's $25 million venture capital fund seeks early-stage firms, focuses on cloud, OT, code, identity bit.ly/3HH148a by

@MichaelNovinson

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Tenable's $25M Venture Capital Fund Seeks Early-Stage Firms

Tenable has debuted a $25 million corporate investment program to support prevention-focused startups focused on technologies such as cloud, OT and identity. The

Founder

Back as CEO of Identity Vendor

@saviynt

: inforisktoday.com/founder-sachin "Our existing customers are seeing a lot of value in this converged identity message where we can get rid of three to five other products for them," Nayyar tells

@ISMG_News

@InfoRiskToday

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Founder Sachin Nayyar Back as CEO of Identity Vendor Saviynt

Saviynt has brought founder and longtime leader Sachin Nayyar back as its chief executive to govern access around privileged, machine and third-party identities.

's $25M Venture Capital Fund Seeks Early-Stage Firms: inforisktoday.com/tenables-25m-v "We wanted to put a stake in the ground and commit to working with these companies. As we see great opportunities, we're going to take advantage of them," CMO

@bgoldy

tells

@ISMG_News

inforisktoday.com

Tenable's $25M Venture Capital Fund Seeks Early-Stage Firms

Tenable has debuted a $25 million corporate investment program to support prevention-focused startups focused on technologies such as cloud, OT and identity. The

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Rashmi Ramesh

@rashmiramesh_

Jan 30

European #payment regulations have forced retailers to implement strong authentication that's phishing-resistant and facilitates more customer understanding,

@FIDOAlliance

's Christina Hulka tells

@MichaelNovinson

bankinfosecurity.com

Payments Rules Bring Customer Authentication to Forefront

Payment regulations in Europe have forced retailers to implement strong authentication that's phishing-resistant and facilitates more customer understanding, says

Michael Novinson

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Jan 27

Payments Rules Bring Customer Authentication to Forefront: bankinfosecurity.com/payments-rules "It gives the customer assurance that they're buying from a genuine site and they are buying what they want to buy,"

Exec Director

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Payments Rules Bring Customer Authentication to Forefront

Payment regulations in Europe have forced retailers to implement strong authentication that's phishing-resistant and facilitates more customer understanding, says

Michael Novinson

@MichaelNovinson

Jan 27

Uniform Infrastructure Raises Risk for Industrial Attacks: govinfosecurity.com/uniform-infras "We are seeing states allocate a significant pool of resources to targeting industrial infrastructure, not just for espionage but for political and military value," says

@DragosInc

CEO

@RobertMLee

govinfosecurity.com

Uniform Infrastructure Raises Risk for Industrial Attacks

The increased physical connectivity of digital assets has expanded the attack surface and added complexity for engineers in industrial environments, says Dragos CEO

to Buy

to Securely Store, Vault Documents: inforisktoday.com/onespan-to-buy "Digital artifacts are simply too easy to fabricate, tamper, or delete in the era of Web3, leading to security breaches and loss of trust in digital transformation," says CEO

@MatthewMoynahan

inforisktoday.com

OneSpan to Buy ProvenDB to Securely Store, Vault Documents

OneSpan plans to purchase an Australian startup founded by a longtime Quest Software executive to securely store and vault documents based on blockchain technology.

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DataBreachToday

@DataBreachToday

Jan 26

While Microsoft's net income might have been down last quarter, it's security sales were anything but, as they surpassed $20 billion in 2022 after 33% annual growth. bit.ly/3DfLDkx

@MichaelNovinson

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Microsoft Security Sales Hit $20B as Consolidation Increases

The world's largest cybersecurity vendor continues to pull away from the competition. Microsoft's security sales surpassed $20 billion in 2022 after 33% annual

Snags

as CRO to Push Beyond Banking: inforisktoday.com/delinea-snags- "Privileged access management has typically been very strong in highly regulated spaces like financials. But this is a solution for everybody," Castignola tells

@ISMG_News

@InfoRiskToday

inforisktoday.com

Delinea Snags David Castignola as CRO to Push Beyond Banking

Privileged access management vendor Delinea has hired longtime RSA sales leader David Castignola to expand beyond North America as well as in nonregulated

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Jeff Cohen

@JMCrisk

Jan 25

Fmr funder of Cyence out of stealth mode with 90 emps, 1,000 clients, $55m in funding, and a product to help firms prepare for and respond to a cyberattack. Arvind Parthasarathi Launches Cygnvs Cyber Crisis Platform. Report by

@MichaelNovinson

#CyberRisk

bankinfosecurity.com

Arvind Parthasarathi Launches Cygnvs Cyber Crisis Platform

Serial entrepreneur Arvind Parthasarathi has started the company Cygnvs, which streamlines and secures communication between internal and external stakeholders

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Mathew J Schwartz

@euroinfosec

Jan 25

Microsoft security sales hit $20 billion as consolidation increases bit.ly/3DfLDkx

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Microsoft Security Sales Hit $20B as Consolidation Increases

The world's largest cybersecurity vendor continues to pull away from the competition. Microsoft's security sales surpassed $20 billion in 2022 after 33% annual

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hit the $20 billion milestone just 12 months after reaching $15 billion in security revenue and two years after revealing $10 billion in annual security sales, according to an earnings call Tuesday. Know more: inforisktoday.com/microsoft-secu

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Microsoft Security Sales Hit $20B as Consolidation Increases

The world's largest cybersecurity vendor continues to pull away from the competition. Microsoft's security sales surpassed $20 billion in 2022 after 33% annual

Sales Hit $20B as Consolidation Increases: inforisktoday.com/microsoft-secu "We're taking share across all major categories we serve. Customers are consolidating on our security stack in order to reduce risk, complexity and cost," says CEO

@satyanadella

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Microsoft Security Sales Hit $20B as Consolidation Increases

The world's largest cybersecurity vendor continues to pull away from the competition. Microsoft's security sales surpassed $20 billion in 2022 after 33% annual