Aaron Painter

🚀 We’re thrilled to announce a strategic partnership between SOCFortress and PrecisionSec! At SOCFortress, our mission has always been to deliver powerful, scalable, and cost-effective SIEM and SOC capabilities built on open-source technology — helping organizations gain deeper visibility, stronger detections, and automation that actually works.  Today, we’re excited to take that mission even further. By partnering with PrecisionSec, a cybersecurity firm that provides curated and highly targeted threat intelligence feeds designed to empower SOC and threat hunting teams, we are now able to bring up-to-the-minute, rich threat intelligence directly into our SIEM stack.  This integration means: ✔️ Native integration with Wazuh alerts and SIEM events, adding high-confidence threat context to detections ✔️ Direct integrations with firewalls, allowing threat intelligence to be used for real-time blocking, not just alerting ✔️ Better signal-to-noise for SOC analysts ✔️ Stronger outcomes for our clients who rely on us for full-stack security monitoring We’ve wanted to partner with a threat intelligence leader like PrecisionSec for some time and we couldn’t be more excited to finally make it a reality. As we continue expanding the SOCFortress platform, this integration strengthens our ability to help customers detect, respond to, and prevent attacks — all while staying true to our open-source, flexible SIEM approach. Here’s to stronger security, together! https://lnkd.in/gM5UbmNJ

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📣 This is a call out to early stage enterprise infra/security/dev focused founders. And/or if you have a friend who is starting to build, pls forward 📣 Back by popular demand - we're excited to hold office hours again at 🤠 Cowboy Ventures 🤠 for founders building in enterprise infra, dev tools or security - joined by some awesome VC/operator friends . If you haven’t yet raised a seed round - come join office hours with friends like Shomik Ghosh from boldstart ventures, Kevin Crosby from GitHub Fund, Leigh Marie Braswell from Kleiner Perkins and Tim Tully from Menlo Ventures, CISO Michael Coates, head of ML&AI Kartik Khanna, plus OFC your friendly Cowboy Ventures investors. Get feedback from folks who have been involved at the earliest stages with companies like Codeium, Drata, dbt Labs, Lightstep, Neon, Pinecone, Protect AI, Scale AI and more... We're excited to spend time with founders & share confidential feedback on your product plan, technical approach, business model, fundraising story, or whatever you want feedback on. How to sign up: ✅ Rolling applications thru Mon, June 2. Teams will hear back by Fri, June 6 ✅ Office hours date: Wednesday afternoon, June 18, 2025 ✅ In-person at the Cowboy office in Palo Alto, CA ✅ Founders will get a get a meeting slot that afternoon, then join for a mixer with founders / investors / operator friends at the end of the day. If you’re tackling core enterprise challenges and planning to raise VC, please apply. This will be a great opportunity to refine your idea in a safe space with experts, and we’d love to meet you! How to apply: Please fill out the short form linked in the comments. Thanks for reading & sharing! #EnterpriseInfra #DevTools #Security #AI #VC #startups cc Rohan Puranik Caroline Duffy Tyrone Anderson

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🎤 Leading Beyond Certainty at Cloudflare’s Trust Forward Summit I’m honored to join Cloudflare as the Featured Keynote Speaker at their Trust Forward Summit next Wednesday March 25th in San Francisco. 🌀 My opening keynote: Leading Beyond Certainty - Trust and Strategy for an Unpredictable World. 📚 I’ll also be signing copies of my bestselling book, Disrupt With Impact, for those attending in person - looking forward to connecting and continuing the conversation. In addition to my keynote, here’s a glimpse of this year's Trust Forward Summit: 🦾 Taming the Algorithm – Governing AI as a Core Business Risk 🤖 Trust at Machine Speed – Humans Are No Longer in the Loop 🔗 Shadow Supply Chains – 3rd / 4th-Party Risk in a Hyperconnected World 📡 Signals of Intent – The Future of Threat Intelligence 🪤 The Debt Trap – Why Tech Debt Is Becoming a Systemic Security Risk 🎯 Designing Trust for 2026 and Beyond If you’re in San Francisco for RSAC 2026, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss. 📅 March 25, 2026 🕒 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT 📍 SPIN, San Francisco Spots are limited - register below to join us:  ⤵ 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gy8SpMjX #RSAC2026 #Cloudflare #TrustForward #AIGovernance #CyberResilience Ramy Houssaini  Khalid Kark  Menny Barzilay Tim Brown  Katherine Kuehn Oliver Newbury  Jerry Perullo  Joe Sullivan  Dave Trader  ☁️ Sandip Wadje Michael Goodman Troy Wilkinson  Grant Bourzikas  Stephanie Cohen Mark Hughes Farooq Sheikh 🔐Dr Kevin Jones David Drossman Jeffrey Samuels  Liz Morton  Leah Woomer Tyler Timken Erin Geiger Kogan Page Publishing Disruptive Futures Institute

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Enterprise cyber storage leader Infinidat wins THREE of Cyber Defense Magazine's 2025 Global InfoSec Awards: • Hot Company for Cyber Resilience • Ransomware Recovery Editor's Choice • Hot Company for Cyberstorage Don't let a cyberattack make your enterprise a victim. Leverage Infinidat's industry-acclaimed InfiniSafe enterprise cyber resilience and cyber storage recovery solutions to keep your business and mission critical enterprise data safe - https://bit.ly/4d94kXL Jerome WendtSapna CapoorInfinidatBill BasinasTim DalesFran BrunoMichael ColbyBryan WilliamsCarly ShidelerAdriana AndronescuPatrick LeeKaitlin HoffmanChristie Flanagan SchraderLynsy (Calvario) MarshallKarine HaaseRebecca KraushaarLee CaswellCalline SanchezCharlotte TangDCIG, LLC.Clipperton KenTodd DorseyScott SinclairEnterprise Strategy Group (part of Omdia)OmdiaCanalys (part of Omdia)Todd ThiemannAlex ArcillaJonathan BrownStephen CatanzanoDave GruberMelinda MarksSimon RobinsonAshish NadkarniMichael LeoneCrawford Del PreteDion HinchcliffeRussell FellowsDave RaffoChannel Futures

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At Microsoft Ignite last week, one theme kept coming up in every hallway conversation: SRE teams are exhausted. Right in the middle of that, I sat down with Francois Martel, Field CTO at NeuBird.ai, to talk about how they are trying to change that story together with Microsoft. NeuBird is working closely with Microsoft to bring Hawkeye, their AI SRE assistant, into the Azure world. Instead of giving teams yet another dashboard, Hawkeye connects to signals across your stack and helps answer the basic questions every on call engineer has at 3am: What is actually broken, where should I look first, and what should we try next. Microsoft also featured NeuBird as one of only three startups to watch at Ignite this year. That is a strong signal that reliability and SRE are finally getting a real seat at the AI table, not just sitting behind analytics and chat use cases. In our conversation we went deep on three areas: - The Microsoft and NeuBird partnership and what it unlocks for Azure customers - Why being named a startup to watch matters for a young company in a crowded AI space - The real SRE pain points they are focused on: noisy alerts, slow incident bridges, growing hybrid environments, and burnout on the teams who keep everything running If you care about reliability, SRE work, and how AI can support teams instead of adding more noise, this interview will be worth your time. I will drop the NeuBird and Microsoft blogs, the Ignite startup article, and the full interview link in the comments. #data #ai #ignite #microsoft Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure Microsoft for Startups #microsoft2025 #copilot #agents #theravitshow

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Hey Chief Marketing Officers, She was frustrated. “Our team is invisible to @90% of the executives in our top accounts. Sure, we have a few exceptions. I know we don’t have an executive track at our user conference, or CISO Dinners, and we didn’t do the RSA platinum sponsorship this year..” But that’s NOT why her team isn’t connecting with these customer executives. I’d just gotten off a call with this CMO. She’s brilliant. Strategic. And frustrated. I told her this: It’s not your Programs. This starts with your PEOPLE. 🤼 There are many components to the People equation- here are a few: If you're a security company, do you have field CISOs or CTOs mapped to your top accounts? If you're in fintech, are your industry strategists and experts in the room, or even in the text threads where renewal decisions are being made? Do you have an Executive Sponsor Program that's the ARROW to create a unified executive customer journey for your Top Accounts? One that delivers the right program to the right executive at the right time? Because here’s what’s changed: 👉 The average B2B deal now has 22 people involved. Up from 4. 👉 AI is compressing sales cycles and inflating buyer expectations. It’s no longer about owning the funnel. It's about matching the tempo of buying behavior. 👉 Execs don’t want another dinner. They want their ride-or-die co-pilot. Someone who answers the red phone, reads the road ahead, and helps them successfully hit the apex at speed.” I know you want to be relevant with the C-suite! So great news....you don’t need "another" marketing program. You need a relationship map. The fastest route to winning with CxOs? Start building today, an executive-to-executive relationship PROGRAM (not just an executive mapping exercise in Salesforce) before risk hits, and before your competitor does. Don’t just protect renewals. Earn loyalty. Build influence. Dominate your category with an Executive Sponsor Program sponsored by your CEO. Are your people in position in your Top Accounts? I’ve designed and delivered 20+ Executive Sponsor Programs in the Global 2000. Yeah…I’ve been doing this work for 24 years.  If you want to be the brand executives turn to when the road gets fast and foggy, now’s your time:-) The CMO's I work with are building relevance at speed. Accelerating deals, locking in renewals, and earning trusted-seat status in every Top Account. My Executive Sponsor Program is your pit crew for relevance with executives. We match your top minds to your top accounts, so you're not just in the race… you're pulling ahead. Let’s build the engine behind your market leadership. Send me a message. Let’s talk. PS> I race vintage and modern cars and was feeling FIRED up when I got off this call.  🏁 PPS> That photo is of me in Italy! 🇮🇹 #ExecutiveSponsorProgram #EnterpriseSales #ExecutiveCustomerEngagement #CMOInsights #BrandRelevance

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