Dean Hickman-Smith

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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So excited to announce VulnCheck's new partner program officially to bring our exploit intelligence solutions to the broader market via key partners of ours like Optiv and Carahsoft - who are bringing us into large accounts who demand a new level of threat intelligence around that's better and faster vs the industry standard of reports that require human analysis. Thank you to Michael Peters at Optiv for making the time for our announcement and thanks to the Ten Eleven Ventures team for their support through KKR. Anthony Bettini Jay Wallace Mike Deskewies Alex Doll Mark H. #vulncheck #optiv #kkr #exploitintelligence

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AI-driven cyberattacks are becoming one of the biggest threats facing small and medium-sized businesses today. That’s why we’re proud to have Jordan Smith, VP at CMIT Solutions, speaking at the 4th Annual Excellerate Central Oregon Business Forum on September 11 at the Riverhouse Convention Center. Jordan will share insights on how AI is changing the cybersecurity landscape and most importantly, how business leaders can defend against evolving threats. The Excellerate Forum brings together top business leaders from across Central Oregon for a morning of learning, networking, and strategies to thrive in the years ahead. 📅 Thursday, September 11 | 6:30 – 10 AM PDT 📍 Riverhouse Convention Center | Bend, OR 👉 Register here: [https://lnkd.in/guPrQmnv]

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Proud to share this one as it's been a serious effort between Fortline and Quali resulting in a major advance of significant value.  Agentic AI environments move fast, the problem is security and observability is typically added afterwards, provisioning happened in minutes, governance followed later. With Torque's ability to embed third-party technology natively into environment blueprints, and FortLine's AgentShield providing the observability layer, there is no longer a gap between when an agentic environment goes live and when it's fully governed. Security posture management, real-time observability, and full LLM interaction capture deploy automatically, as part of the environment itself. Not retrofitted or bolted on afterward, but built in from day one. For enterprises running agentic AI at scale, this changes the conversation entirely. Speed and governance are no longer a trade-off.  To see this in action, watch the video Adi Kavaler has linked in his post.  #AgenticAI #AIGovernance #AISecurity #PlatformEngineering #Quali #Torque #FortLine #AgentShield #CloudInfrastructure #AIObservability #DevSecOps #EnterpriseAI #Nvidia 

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🚨The numbers in Forrester’s TEI report say it all. PKI is a security investment and a strategic advantage. The DigiCert team drives real results and proves that modern PKI can be both secure and scalable. If you’re still relying on manual workflows, now’s the time to rethink. 💭

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“In 2025, 62% of companies experienced supply-chain cybersecurity disruptions.” 👉 Your security is only as strong as the weakest link in your partner ecosystem. https://buff.ly/2DZPljF #SupplyChainRisk #ThirdPartyRisk #CyberResilience

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Excited for another year at RSAC 2026 in San Francisco!! I will be there with the AccuKnox team (March 23–26)! If you're headed to RSA, I'd love to connect. I'll be at the booth every day from 10–12 and 4–6. Reach out to meet up outside those windows too. Here's what we'll be talking about: Do you know what AI is running in your environment?  Concerned about Shadow AI? You're not alone.  Most security teams can't fully answer that question yet, that gap is exactly what adversaries are looking for. AccuKnox tackles this head-on with AI Security Posture Management (AI SPM): • Secure Agentic AI: enforce runtime protection and Zero Trust controls for AI agents and LLM-powered workflows • Secure APIs: discover, monitor, and protect the APIs driving your AI and app ecosystems Come find us at booth #5154, I'd love to hear what you're seeing in the field and share what we're building. See you in SF! #RSAC2026 #AISPM #AccuKnox #ZeroTrust #AgenticAI #Cybersecurity

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Today, Securonix, backed by Vista Equity Partners, acquired ThreatQuotient, a top-tier Threat Intelligence Platform. Two innovation powerhouses unite: 🔒 Securonix: The 5-years-in-a-row Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for SIEM, UEBA, and SOAR, powered by agentic AI, trusted by Fortune 100 customers. 🧠 ThreatQuotient: The 4-years in-a-row QKS Group Spark Matrix Leader for external threat intelligence platform, trusted by Fortune 100 customers. Together, we're closing one of cybersecurity's biggest gaps: seamlessly integrating deeply enriched, real-time analytics with curated external threat intel, all powered by agentic AI. 👉 Imagine a modern SOC where threats are detected faster, false positives drop by 90%, and Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) is slashed by 70%. This is what one of our customers, Marcel Jonker at Cambia Health Solutions, has to say: "Bringing threat intelligence management and SIEM together in a unified platform is a game changer. We've already seen the value of deeply enriched advanced analytics and detection in our Securonix SIEM environment—but coupling that with integrated threat curation, prioritization, and response should help customers move even faster. It means fewer swivel-chair investigations, more accurate triage, and greater confidence that security analysts are working with the most relevant threats." A huge shoutout to John Czupak, CEO of ThreatQuotient, for building an incredible company that has earned the trust of Fortune 100 customers, fostering a transparent culture, and a deep commitment to investing in: innovation, employee growth, and customer success - all of which align with Securonix's culture. 💥 ThreatQuotient team, welcome to the journey. 💥 ThreatQuotient customers, we're honored to have you onboard. More details soon, stay tuned for my blog! Scott Sampson Ben Gibson Paul Gregory Eunice Kim Simon Hunt Samer Alami Venkat Kotla Marion Smith Leon Ward Gigi Schumm Matt McCormick Nadeem Syed Rod Aliabadi Brooke Nakatsukasa William Sitzman Bethany Mayer

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🌍 Another milestone for Tosi today! After launching our advanced network traffic analytics in the U.S. this summer, we’re now expanding it worldwide — bringing real-time OT visibility and threat detection to organizations across Europe, APAC, and the Americas. Natively integrated into TosiControl, this capability gives customers unified visibility and control across their entire OT environment — no new tools, no new hardware, just instant intelligence. What it means: ✅ Automatic discovery of every connected device ✅ Deep analysis of industrial protocols (Modbus, DNP3, Profinet...) ✅ Behavioral analytics that learn and detect anomalies ✅ Prioritized, actionable alerts that cut through the noise With OT intrusions up 49% last year, organizations need visibility they can trust — and simplicity they can scale. That’s exactly what Tosi's Cyber Physical Systems platform delivers. Read more in today's article: https://lnkd.in/gZa_BWpd #Tosi #OTSecurity #CyberPhysicalSystems #ThreatDetection #IndustrialCybersecurity #NetworkVisibility Sakari Suhonen Teemu T. Johannes Niemi Simon L Daan van der Vegt Tony Pekkala Roger Vestin Andreas Peev Oliver M. Goldbach Martin Lorenz

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Belated sharing of an incredible week at #RSAC2025. Jeetu Patel, Tom Gillis, and Mike Horn delivered powerful keynotes at RSA that made one thing super clear: Cisco and Splunk are leading the way in AI-powered security, with the technology, the vision, and the scale to back it up. Behind the scenes, our Analyst Relations team was out in full force, 66 analysts engaged, including a fireside chat, executive roundtables and many more strategic conversations driving clarity on our differentiation and momentum. This short video captures just a few behind-the-scenes moments from the AR team who made the magic happen onsite. Proud to partner with this team as we shape the next chapter of security. Thank you Grace Chung Christine Wan Sophie Kwon Mike R. Gloria Caughlin Valerie Lattell Tristram C. Morgan Wolfe. Grateful for the partnership with Anand Raghavan Rajneesh C. DJ Sampath Yaron Singer on AI Security and Foundation ai. Producer and creative credit to Sophie Kwon #RSAC #CiscoSecurity #Splunk #AI #Cybersecurity #AnalystRelations #TeamCisco

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Security teams can’t afford to keep stitching together point tools while threat actors are automating at scale. This new whitepaper from Richmond Advisory Group (sponsored by Deepwatch) explores something we’re seeing every day with customers: 🔹 Legacy SIEM alone isn’t enough 🔹 Operational complexity is increasing risk 🔹 Unified MDR platforms are changing the game The best part? It’s not just theory. This is a practical roadmap for teams looking to shift from reactive alerting to proactive, risk-driven security operations. #MDR

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Excited to see two #cybersecurity leaders coming together in this way, to help our customers. CrowdStrike Stops Breaches. Absolute Security Stops Downtime. If you are going to be at #FalCon2025, come meet with our cyber resilience experts to hear about how we can provide you with full visibility, control, and recovery for your enterprise endpoints — your most vulnerable, targeted and widely-used business assets. Stop by booth 2108 for: ✳️ A demo showing how Absolute Rehydrate restores compromised PCs to a fully operational state following #cyberattacks, #ransomware strikes, and IT failures ➡️ remotely and with a single click. ✳️ Deep dives on how Absolute Security's firmware-embedded resilience ensures business operations remain always on, defends against threats, protects against risk, and quickly restores continuity following a cyber incident. ✳️ A look at how our partnership expansion with #CrowdStrike makes it easy and quick for customers to deploy solutions that enforce resilience for critical security controls deployed across global environments. CrowdStrike 🛑 Breaches, Absolute Security 🛑 Downtime. Schedule your meeting today: https://lnkd.in/ghY32G9v #CISO #CIO #SecOps

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Today’s threats mix cyber, disruption, and misinformation, and they can hit any organization, not just high-profile targets. In this article, Tracy Reinhold (#Everbridge CSO) breaks down what this means and how teams need to rethink preparedness. Big takeaway: how you communicate in a crisis matters just as much as how you respond. Worth a quick read. https://lnkd.in/gjzyB3iF

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