Community-Led 💬 What's on the Minds of Early Adopters #24
Countdown to RSAC 2024, AI Center of Excellence and Open Cloud Security!
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 >1,500 members of the Decibel early adopter community every month. Let’s dive in!
We are on the final countdown to RSA Conference 2024 and, whether you love or love to hate RSA, we hope to see you there! Last year our GenAI in Security meetup drew 200+ members of the Decibel security community featuring demos and presentations by Censys, Dropzone AI, Push Security, Socket, Pangea and Sublime Security.
This year we anticipate more lively discussions on topics such as the impact and opportunity of Service-as-Software (powered by AI Agents), community-driven vs. black box vendor choices and disrupting the status quo in cybersecurity featuring a conversation with Jerry Perullo (former CISO of ICE/NYSE), HD Moore (founder of Metasploit and runZero) and Haroon Meer (founder of Thinkst Canary).
To participate in these interactive opportunities, we hope you will visit our Decibel “Oasis” which hosts founders and early adopters seeking fresh perspectives and open networking with builders and innovators. Each year we invite pre-seed through series A stage companies and CISOs / security practitioners who pilot and deploy startup products from the earliest stage. The Oasis hosts lunches, cocktail hours, and open forums designed for networking and inspired connections for all friends and family in the Decibel community. Find more information and RSVP here!🙋♀️
The Watercooler: What we’re hearing in the Community
Decibel Community Events - Decibel’s AI Center of Excellence
Our AI Center of Excellence brings together product and engineering leaders who are building and deploying applications with LLMs in the enterprise. This spring in NYC, over two dozen inaugural members of our AI Center of Excellence roundtable enthusiastically engaged discussing their experience moving LLMs from pilot to production, implications re data security and compliance and how measurable ROI, while critical to deployment momentum and adoption, can also be misleading.
It was great connecting and reconnecting with our friends from BlackRock, Cisco, Citi, Cooley LLP, Credit Karma, CrowdStrike, Duolingo, Goldman Sachs, Instagram, MetLife, Morgan Stanley, Jefferies, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Nielsen, Nutanix, Point72, Scale AI, S&P Global, and the University of Michigan. Our next roundtable will be virtual where we look forward to welcoming the full AI Center of Excellence roundtable membership and we will publish additional findings from Decibel research. Contact me for an invite to join our AI Center of Excellence roundtable! 🔥
An Inside Look at Innovation - Open Cloud Security, Prowler
Prowler is a powerful open cloud security platform that gives cloud security teams transparency, adaptability and control of detection engineering including the the ability to write / deploy their own custom checks, and ultimately share them across the ecosystem.
Prowler has reshaped the landscape of cloud security through its innovative open-source platform which is a widely used open source SDK for cloud security. Prowler today has >6 M downloads (growing exponentially), >9500 Github stars, >3500 commits from >200 contributors and is the de facto standard for the community today used by AWS, Salesforce, Tesla, Okta, Redhat, and many others.
Prowler v4 is “pure heavy metal for those who care about AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and... Kubernetes!”, per co-founder Toni de la Fuente.
Check out Prowler SaaS which is available now and delivers adaptable, community-driven solutions that meet the dynamic challenges of today's cloud environments 🚀…
Decibel Friends and Family Update
🎉 Congratulations…
Anthony Grieco promoted to Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cisco
Eric Latalladi new Global CISO of MetLife
Zulfi Ahmed joins HP as CISO
Jason Richards now at CHG Healthcare as VP, Information Security, Privacy and Identity
Shawn Harris promoted to Deputy CISO at Chipotle
Keith O’Sullivan moves to SVP, Global Head of Cyber Defense at Tokio Marine Group
Steve Pae shifts to Prudential International Insurance as CIO of Prudential Financial
Dana Lawson promoted to CTO at Netlify
Danny Allan hops to Snyk as CTO
🔥 Dropzone AI named as a Top 10 Finalist by RSAC Innovation Sandbox contest!
🚀 Credo AI named by Fast Company as one of the Most Innovative Companies of 2024 - ranked No. 4 in the Artificial Intelligence category and also No. 38 in the overall top 50 companies list!
🏆 “OpenAI Dethroned? AI Giant Is Falling Behind As New Startup Takes the Top Spot” - Abacus.AI claims the top spot on Hugging Face’s LLM Leaderboard!
See you next time.
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Stacey