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We are excited about our latest investment in Longwave turning security risk into billable Managed #AI for the global MSP market. Let’s Go! 🤖

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We're excited to introduce our latest investment, Oryo.io - the security layer for agentic AI. Prashanth R. and Swaroop S., veterans of Okta and Wiz, are building agentic visibility and a trust layer on the MCP protocol for enterprise autonomous agents. Like Waymo’s cars today, agentic AI across enterprises will soon ingest data, make decisions, and take action. As adoption rises, the problem shifts from capability to control. CISOs manage identity and access for humans today. Okta anchors that trust layer for non-humans tomorrow. After our Agentic AI conference in Feb 2025 led by Anand Rao, we came with prepared minds to our first call with Oryo. Michael Marmor led diligence and is working closely with the founders as they build their MVP. We wrote the first check into Oryo. Village Global (Reid Hoffman) and Seven Hill Ventures (Michael Coates) followed soon after. Perhaps Nikesh Arora should take notice :) Venkat Raju, JB Michel, Rahul Harikumar, Quentin Staes-Polet Josh Cunningham

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Last morning at RSA Conference and Insight Partners hosted a compelling discussion with Stephen Ward and Evan Reiser Founder and CEO of Abnormal AI and Alon Schindel VP of AI and Threat Intelligence Wiz. So much to think about, but loved this quote to founders: “You need to build the company for what it should look like in a few years, not today. If you’re not transforming your product dev process using AI, you will lose to those who do.” Yep…that sounds about right

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2 lines of code to detect audio, video, and still image deep fakes, via a seamless, high-scale API 2 lines of code to save your business or government agency from disaster 👇

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I like Wiz's research (and marketing). Always on point. So I got excited when they started developing CISO insights. Here's their 2026 budget benchmark surveying 300+ security leaders. Full disclosure: there's likely bias here. Cloud security vendor surveys their customers, cloud spending looks great. That's fine... the data's very useful. Three things that caught my attention: 1️⃣ AI is the #1 factor driving spend (54%) Not cloud. Not skills gaps. Not incidents. AI-powered solutions and countering AI threats dominate the conversation. Up the hype cycle we go? Sure. But when 300+ CISOs say it's their top priority, founders building here have real tailwinds. 2️⃣ Tool sprawl and vendor consolidation rank DEAD LAST (11%) Everyone talks about "platformization". Analysts preach consolidation. We all love the "replace 10 tools" pitch. But CISOs don't wake up wanting to buy platforms. They wake up trying to solve specific problems. The 58% running 25+ tools aren't looking for philosophical purity... they're looking for something that actually works. 3️⃣ Compliance is still king (45%) Same as it was 25 years ago, despite all the innovation talk, regulatory requirements drive as much spending as anything else. For startup founders: The budget numbers look healthy - 53% spending >$5M annually, 88% expecting increases. But the satisfaction gap is massive. Organizations spending $25M+ are the least satisfied with outcomes. The opportunity isn't "another platform." It's solving real problems with measurable risk reduction. Healthcare and financial services are the biggest spenders (67% and 54% over $5M respectively). Manufacturing is most aggressive on budget growth (96% increasing spend). Full report attached. Worth your time if you're making budget decisions or building in this space.

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Truth telling from the best in the game! I love panels when you can walk away with some actionable learnings, and this one delivered in spades. Here are the Core Four that I live by. 1. Influence a P&L, speak CFO language. This gives you a REAL voice at the table. 2. Do the right thing by your "First Team." As a C-Suite leader, look beyond your function, prioritize company success. This is the hardest and most important lesson to learn when you become a C-Suite leader. 3. In an AI first era, stay ahead of customer moves - Make the News, not just report it. Keep learning, and building. 4. Show up at Cassie Young's On the Business workshop!! Thanks to the dream team Cassie Young Karen Budell and Rebecca Price for telling it as it is. Thanks to Kathleen Booth Anne Pao and Lindsay Tjepkema and the wonderful folks at Women in Revenue for getting us together! #pavilionGTM

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Discover how the future of enterprise MDR will be defined by AI-driven innovation, deep integration, industry specialization, and expert-led security. Read more in the latest Deepwatch blog, and share your thoughts on how MDR is evolving in the comments!

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FedRamp compliance in 90 days - what's not to love about that !?! Very happy to be working with Irina Denisenko and the team as they bring AI-powered FedRamp authorisation to all, rapidly and at a fraction of the cost. If you want to sell software into the US Govt, then go to Knox Systems, Inc. right now ☺️

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🚀 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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Thrilled to announce Crosspoint Capital Partners' investment in WideField Security! As part of the Crosspoint team, it’s always a special moment when we meet 10x founders tackling one of the most strategic markets in cybersecurity: Identity Security. Before ITDR emerged, PAM was the closest identity-adjacent segment with real cyber impact — IAM and IGA, by contrast, have always been more about access hygiene than security. But if the last few years have taught us anything from breaches like UnitedHealth and MGM, it’s that identity has become the preferred initial attack vector. After all — why break in when you can just log in? The WideField Security team is building an identity security platform that spans on-prem (AD), SaaS (Okta, Entra), and cloud environments (AWS, Azure) — unifying posture (context) and detection (SecOps alerts) into a single, coherent layer (here comes the identity graph). That’s not a feature — it’s the foundation of a platform play. It takes 10x founders to go after such an ambitious vision. Abhay Kulkarni and the Widefield team are exactly that, and I couldn’t be more excited to see our firm partner with them on this journey. Onward and forward! 🚀 #itdr #identity #identitysecuritu #secops https://lnkd.in/gEyR6mG7

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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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