Gijo Mathew

🦙 🤝 🔐 New acquisition just dropped: Vanta + Riskey = a whole new era of vendor risk management. If you’ve ever tried to manually run a security review with just a spreadsheet, you know the pain. The number of vendors keeps climbing, the risks get more complex, and point-in-time questionnaires just aren’t cutting it anymore. Riskey’s tech brings real-time monitoring, smart signal prioritization, and AI that actually helps you move faster. We’ve already started rolling it into our Vendor Risk Management product, and the impact is real: ⚡️ Live alerts on vulnerabilities and breaches 📊 Insights that focus your team (not flood their inbox) 🔎 A complete view of 3rd and 4th party risk (without the manual overhead!) We’re pumped to have the Riskey team onboard and even more excited about what this unlocks for our customers. Take a look: https://lnkd.in/gBmzF2SG

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🚨 AI without oversight is an enterprise risk. AI doesn’t understand right or wrong. It executes. At scale. That’s why human oversight isn’t optional—it’s non-negotiable. In this clip, Jeff Mahony breaks down: • How agency introduces bias • Why audits are critical for AI systems • The real risks enterprises face when deploying AI without governance ⚠️ Move fast without guardrails, and AI doesn’t just fail—it amplifies mistakes. 🎥 Watch the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/e-gC6jHg Want to be a guest on Pivoting to WEB3? Send Donna Mitchell a message on PodMatch, here: https://lnkd.in/esfpbKVT #podmatch #AI #EnterpriseRisk #AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #HumanInTheLoop #DigitalTransformation #Leadership #FutureOfWork

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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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We replaced more than 5 disconnected systems with a centralized, compliance-ready platform that has intelligent lead scoring, automated workflows, and real-time dashboards. 60% less manual reporting. Faster deal flow. Stronger visibility. Custom-built systems win.

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Israeli M&A is running at an unprecedented pace in 2026 and the underlaying reason is really interesting. Wiz and CyberArk both cleared regulatory approval on deals announced last year. That's two megadeals closing on the same day. Beyond the massive headlines, the baseline activity in 2026 caught my attention. The numbers so far (as of Feb 11): → 13 disclosed acquisitions in 42 days → $4.2B of M&A capital → 2.2 deals per week This amounts to $100M of #liquidity returning to investors every day! What other ecosystem provides $100M of liquidity per day on average since the beginning of 2026? If this pace holds, we're looking at ~113 M&As by year-end and close to $37B in disclosed value. This is excluding the just approved megadeals and excluding the unannounced rounds (which probably add $3-20m each). What's driving this? AI is the obvious answer. 10 of 13 deals are AI-centric companies. But I think there's something deeper happening: - Acquirers are paying premium multiples to compress time-to-AI-capability rather than build internally. - Israeli startups are shipping production-level AI, not demos. That's the arbitrage. - Speed > cost in this market cycle. Meanwhile, startup creation is on the rise (we predicted this in our stealth report ~12-months ago). It seems the industry will continue producing sellable companies at an increasing rate. This year is poised to be very interesting 😇

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We’ve been listening closely to our enterprise customers and building the tools they told us they need to meet the highest standards for security, configuration, and compliance. Today, we’re excited to introduce the Rewind Enterprise Engine, with new capabilities including: - Bring your own storage (BYOS) → Use Rewind as the backup and restore layer while keeping your backup data fully within your own AWS environment. - Configurable Data Retention → Set custom retention periods for your backups, giving you full control over how long data is stored and when it’s deleted. - Static IPs / IP Allow → Restrict platform access to trusted networks only. - Custom Notifications → Surface backup events where you work—in Rewind or in SIEM tools like PagerDuty, Datadog, OpsGenie, and more. - Enforce MFA → Mandate multi-factor authentication across your organization for a consistent security posture. - Enhanced vault search → Boolean operators and advanced filters for precise, rapid version comparison and granular restoration. - Various Integration updates in the core Rewind platform → Expanded breadth of data coverage across monday.com, Jira, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, and other SaaS environments. It’s all live now and I’m looking forward to seeing how Rewind customers will put it to work. #SaaS #DataResilience #Compliance #CyberSecurity #EnterpriseIT #CloudSecurity

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We’ve all talked about using AI in the SOC, but most of what I’ve seen doesn’t go deep enough. Analysts still end up buried in noise. When I joined Sagetap, we were looking for a third-party risk management platform. Sagetap immediately sent me strong vendor matches, including Mitratech Prevalent - Third-Party Risk Management. We went from first discovery to POC in under 5 days. What also stood out was the ability to see how other security leaders were tackling similar challenges. Since then, I’ve used Sagetap to track how peers are approaching AI adoption in security. Staying ahead of the curve has made it far easier to prioritize the right experiments at the right time. One experiment led us to Unframe AI. We gave them a challenge, and 3 weeks later, they came back with a viable business product and has produced tangible results for our business. That now has turned into a multi-year partnership. If you're trying to stay ahead of where AI security is going, Sagetap’s worth a look: https://lnkd.in/gkQ-tynG #SageCounsel #AIautomation #SecurityOperations #SOC #Cybersecurity

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The biggest mistake in choosing an IT partner: Buying a relationship. Instead of buying a system (process, reporting, escalation, documentation). Especially in regulated environments, “trust me” doesn’t pass due diligence. Comment CHECKLIST and I’ll DM the guide we use for evaluating providers.

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