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🔸 In a recent poll of our top CISOs and CTOs, 83% said identity & access security was their most important priority
🔸 Evaluation is dramatically outpacing implementation. 77% reported evaluating 5 or more security solutions in the past year (with 31% at more than 10!), but implementation was at 4 or fewer across the board, with 23% reporting they haven’t implemented any of the solutions they looked at
🔸 AI Security is where startups have the most opportunity. 46% respondents said they're using startup or smaller-company solutions for LLM guardrails, data poisoning prevention, shadow AI discovery, AI governance, etc.
“AI agents are expanding the attack surface faster than anyone can govern it, so the gap between what we detect and what we can act on keeps widening."
Applications close tomorrow for our Security Product Showcase on November 10th in Austin - security founders, come present your solution to our hand-picked panel of security experts: airtable.com/appW0AESSmHMtr…
🔸 Evaluation is dramatically outpacing implementation. 77% reported evaluating 5 or more security solutions in the past year (with 31% at more than 10!), but implementation was at 4 or fewer across the board, with 23% reporting they haven’t implemented any of the solutions they looked at
🔸 AI Security is where startups have the most opportunity. 46% respondents said they're using startup or smaller-company solutions for LLM guardrails, data poisoning prevention, shadow AI discovery, AI governance, etc.
“AI agents are expanding the attack surface faster than anyone can govern it, so the gap between what we detect and what we can act on keeps widening."
Applications close tomorrow for our Security Product Showcase on November 10th in Austin - security founders, come present your solution to our hand-picked panel of security experts: airtable.com/appW0AESSmHMtr…
New attack surfaces are emerging as fast as the models get more capable, and the call for defense is coming from inside the house (look no further than the open letter for a global surge in cyber defense from OpenAI with now 575+ signatories). Defenders need tools that can keep pace, putting real pressure on the market for the companies building them.
On November 10 in Austin, we're inviting 8 early-stage security startups to present their products to senior CISOs and security leaders for a full day of live, off the record feedback - including:
🔸 @Aarti_Borkar (CVP, Customer Success and Incident Response (DART), @Microsoft Security)
🔸 Ann Funai (former Global CIO, VP Business Transformation, @IBM)
🔸 @cyber_swami (Global Co-Chair Cybersecurity and Data Privacy, @Orrick)
🔸 Emily Heath (COO, @glowio; board member at Gen and LogicGate)
🔸 Margaret Cunningham (VP Security & AI Strategy, Head of Americas Field CISO Operations, @Darktrace)
🔸 Monica Landen, CISSP CSSLP (CISO, @diligentHQ)
Each founding team gets 30 minutes to present their product directly to the people who decide what gets bought at the enterprise level.
OpCo’s Security Product Showcase is a full day event in partnership with Orrick and Hubscale and by application and invite-only.
Applications are now open and close September 29. If you're building the tools that will defend against what's coming next, we want to hear from you: airtable.com/appW0AESSmHMtr…
On November 10 in Austin, we're inviting 8 early-stage security startups to present their products to senior CISOs and security leaders for a full day of live, off the record feedback - including:
🔸 @Aarti_Borkar (CVP, Customer Success and Incident Response (DART), @Microsoft Security)
🔸 Ann Funai (former Global CIO, VP Business Transformation, @IBM)
🔸 @cyber_swami (Global Co-Chair Cybersecurity and Data Privacy, @Orrick)
🔸 Emily Heath (COO, @glowio; board member at Gen and LogicGate)
🔸 Margaret Cunningham (VP Security & AI Strategy, Head of Americas Field CISO Operations, @Darktrace)
🔸 Monica Landen, CISSP CSSLP (CISO, @diligentHQ)
Each founding team gets 30 minutes to present their product directly to the people who decide what gets bought at the enterprise level.
OpCo’s Security Product Showcase is a full day event in partnership with Orrick and Hubscale and by application and invite-only.
Applications are now open and close September 29. If you're building the tools that will defend against what's coming next, we want to hear from you: airtable.com/appW0AESSmHMtr…
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