Community-Led 💬 What's on the Minds of Early Adopters #6
Community-Led 💬 What's on the Minds of Early Adopters #6
Virtual interns, untangling data and DevSecOps
Welcome to Community-Led. Each week we connect founders to dozens of early adopters and technology executives in fast growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. This newsletter surfaces the most interesting insights and conversations across the >1,000 members of the Decibel community every month. Let’s dive in!
This month we celebrate the one year anniversary of the Decibel internship program! The internship program is a paid, virtual, and flexible way for (rockstar) interns to actively participate in driving value to our Decibel founders by supporting business and early adopter community development, content creation, founder services offerings and due diligence support. Our interns have video conferenced in from as far away as Dubai and as close as Palo Alto and seemingly everywhere in between - LA, Chicago, Philly, London, NYC and Denver. Each intern brings a unique perspective and we count a Gen Z VC leader and a Tokyo Olympian as current and former Decibel interns!
We are currently interviewing for our next cohort of interns to join our team this fall to experience, and meaningfully contribute to, Decibel’s Unfair Advantage. Please drop me a note at stacey@decibel.vc for more information.
The Watercooler: What we’re hearing in the Community
One Big Trend Worth Your Time
Remember waterfall style development? Where one project would slowly be passed down the engineering org chart until it finally had enough stamps of approval to go live? DevOps and Agile processes made those practices feel (rightfully) antiquated. Now, with nimble, fast-paced, asynchronous software development embedded into our engineering organizations, how do we make sure that we can still prioritize supply chain security? That’s one big theme we’re thinking about this week.Â
With a Dash of Automation, You Can Avoid Some of These Common Security Failures
You Should Really Patch That: 1/2 of Govt Security Incidents Are Caused by Missing Patches
DevSecOps: the Key to Securing Your Supply Chain in a Multi-Cloud Threatscape
An Inside Look at Innovation
The last year of serious cybersecurity incidents has made it abundantly clear that identifying risks and threats ahead of time is critical to every organization. Censys is helping companies do just that with the gold standard solution for attack surface management; their best-in-class Internet scanning technology allows them to show you what your attack surface looks like by continuously scanning the internet and logging every port and protocol that can be mapped to you uncovering security risks and misconfigurations within them. With a unique perspective on cloud environments (via their cloud security module) and a deep focus on M&A, Censys is the Google of internet-connected devices.
Decibel Friends and Family UpdatesÂ
🎉 Congratulations…
Shan Palaniappan promoted to CTO, Global Platform Team at DataRobot
Dheeraj Khanna appointed as Head of SRE and Observability Engineering at Coupang
Carter Busse joined Workato as CIO
Danielle Morril founds new company, Firstparty where she is CTOÂ
Satish Nair moves to Medable, Inc as Senior VP Engineering, Enterprise
Kirsten Gibbs becomes Director of Retention & Loyalty at Mizzen+Main
See you next time.Â
Thanks for reading. This is a community that you’re always welcome to add to. If you have any feedback or know a story that’s perfect for this newsletter, please reach out. Email me at Stacey@Decibel.vc.
Stacey