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Tim Brown reposted thisTim Brown reposted thisThe question of build vs. buy has become more relevant than ever in financial services. As AI makes it easier to build, FIs need to rethink the equation: which solutions to buy, which to build internally, and what infrastructure do they need to support it? Join our webinar on September 16 with Sarthak Pattanaik, Chief Data & AI Officer at BNY, Jason P, CTO at Flagstar, Adam Goldberg, Head of GTM for Financial Services at OpenAI, and Oren Buskila, Co-founder & CEO at Cobalt, for a candid discussion moderated by Eyal Eliakim, Head of AI at Team8, on how financial services are making these choices in practice. 📅 September 16 | 3:30–4:30 PM ET Register here: https://lnkd.in/gV-BkKu5
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Tim Brown reposted thisTim Brown reposted this𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝘄𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 $𝟯𝟲𝟱 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹! $265 million for Team8 Capital’s third fund, plus more than $100 million for follow-on investments in our highest-conviction portfolio companies. This brings Team8 to nearly $2 billion in assets under management across eight funds since 2014. We back Seed and Series A founders building AI-native companies across cybersecurity, software infrastructure, fintech, and digital health. Our focus is on the critical layers enterprises need to adopt AI with confidence. Over the years, we’ve worked side by side with our 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 to scale through every stage of growth, and we continue to back them as they build and grow. That model is powered not only by capital, but by builders and our Villages of enterprise C-level leaders. We’re grateful to our LPs, founders, team, and broader community for being part of the journey. 🎉 Congrats Sarit Firon Liran Grinberg Ori Barzilay Hadar Siterman Norris Read the cover story in The Information: https://lnkd.in/d8iTcTji #SuccessbyDesign
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Tim Brown shared thisIncredible event. One of the highlights of Blackhat!Tim Brown shared thisWhen 100+ of the world's top security leaders clear their calendars for one off-the-record night, it's not for hype. It's because something changed. We brought them together with Jason Clinton, Deputy CISO of Anthropic, and Dane Stuckey, CISO of OpenAI, the people who see what these models can really do before the rest of us do. AI has put nation-state offensive capability within reach of far more actors than ever before. A shift this big deserves a real conversation. The conversation stays in the room. Our conviction doesn't: the race between attackers and defenders won't be won on speed and scale alone. Defense has been reacting for too long. Cyber has to go on the offensive. If you were in the room, you know. If you weren't, stay close. Thank you to our partners Team8, HackerOne, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Herzog, and Sygnia. This is Alt. More soon. Nahman Khayet Noa Hen Efi Weiss Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D.
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Tim Brown reposted thisTim Brown reposted thisOver the last few weeks, I've seen countless announcements about 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼-𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, autonomous patching, and AI that will supposedly fix your vulnerabilities for you. A few years ago, every vendor claimed they had the best vulnerability prioritization. Today, everyone claims they can automatically remediate. The story changed. The reality didn't. Let's go back to first principles. If patching complex enterprise environments could truly be automated, cybersecurity would already look very different. The world's largest enterprises run hybrid environments, multiple clouds, on-prem infrastructure, legacy systems, OT, change management processes, maintenance windows, business owners, and operational constraints. There is a reason patching has remained one of the hardest operational problems in cybersecurity for decades. Not because security teams don't care. Because reality is complicated. What many "auto-remediation" platforms actually do is automate ticket creation. Thousands of vulnerabilities become thousands of remediation tickets. The problem hasn't disappeared. It has simply changed names. And when it's finally time to execute? A human is still in the loop. There is still change management. There are still approvals. There are still systems you simply cannot patch. Marketing can promise autonomous patching. Operations still have to live with reality. This is exactly why I believe the real problem starts much earlier. Before talking about remediation... Before talking about automation... You first have to answer a much harder question: Which vulnerabilities are actually reachable? Not which ones have a CVSS score of 10. Not which ones are on another dashboard. That requires understanding the environment itself. The network. The segmentation. The compensating controls. The real attack paths. Only after you've reduced millions of findings down to the handful that actually matter does remediation become a problem worth automating. And once you understand the environment deeply enough... Patching stops being the only answer. Sometimes the fastest remediation isn't a patch at all. It's changing a firewall rule. Updating a network policy. Applying a compensating control. That's not nearly as exciting as "fully autonomous AI." But it's how large enterprises actually reduce risk. Sometimes, reality is less marketable than the headline. It's also where the real work begins. Black Hat starts in two days - Come and say hi at Booth 5717 and book a 1:1 meeting here: https://lnkd.in/ez7V53fi
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Tim Brown shared thisThrilled to be back in Chicago on the 29th! We are going to have a great dinner, a live crisis simulation and talk agentic pentesting. It's going to be a great night. If you're in Chicago please register.Tim Brown shared thisYou won't want to miss this - our live cyber crisis is coming to Chicago ✈️ Join Cytactic, GuidePoint Security, and Alt Security on July 29 for an executive dinner and live cyber crisis simulation. Experience firsthand how decisions shape the outcome of a cyber incident. If you're a CISO or security leader, come put your crisis response to the test alongside your peers. 📍 Chicago, July 29 👉 Register here: https://luma.com/7nu3sz97
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Tim Brown reposted thisTim Brown reposted thisMarketing teams, finance teams, and other business functions are creating applications, automations, and AI-powered workflows. That expansion creates a major compliance challenge: organizations need visibility into what is being built, which tools and dependencies are being used, and whether the right policies and controls are consistently enforced. In this clip from Veracode’s recent webinar, special guest Tim Brown, CISO in Residence at Team8 and the former CISO of SolarWinds explains why discovery has become a critical first step. The full conversation also explores how AI-generated code, complex software supply chains, and growing regulatory scrutiny are pushing organizations toward continuous, evidence-backed compliance. Read the blog for further insights from Tim, Anthony Barkley, Veracode’s Chief Strategy Officer, and Chris Wysopal, Veracode’s Co-founder & Chief Security Evangelist, on building a more resilient, audit-ready security posture. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gp--VieG The full webinar replay is linked in the comments
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Tim Brown reposted thisTim Brown reposted thisAlmost one week away. Welcome, Tim Brown, to the CISO XC Chicago stage. Tim's session, "Sunburst: A Team Level Perspective on Navigating a Major Incident," offers something many post-incident discussions don't: the perspective of the teams responsible for responding, rebuilding, and sustaining operations long after the headlines faded. Rather than focusing solely on the CISO's viewpoint, this session takes attendees inside the operational realities of one of the industry's most significant cyber incidents. Tim will discuss how teams prepared before the breach, how they mobilized in the earliest hours, which decisions proved most critical, and where additional planning and training could have made the greatest impact. Following a brief introduction, the session opens into an interactive Q&A, allowing attendees to ask the questions they've always wanted to ask about what it was really like to navigate an incident of this scale. With Chicago just around the corner, now is the time to secure your seat. Looking for practical lessons from leaders who have experienced major incidents firsthand? This is a conversation you won't want to miss. Register your interest before it's too late: https://lnkd.in/gWPG4RVY Cecil Pineda Jaimin Shah Randy Potts
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Tim Brown reposted thisTim Brown reposted thisI had this conversation with a leading European CISO the day before I flew to Indonesia for my honeymoon. Conversations like this are what actually move my work forward. Before we build anything for the CISO Village, I want to hear directly from the people we’re building it for. What came up wasn’t threat intel or budget. It was mental health. The toll this career takes, and how little the industry actually talks about it. Then I landed in Bali, where resilience means something different than what we usually talk about in security. At the CISO Village Summit this year, Tim Brown, who led security at SolarWinds through Sunburst, spoke about resilience in a way that stuck with me. Not resilience as endurance. Not the version where you absorb every hit and keep moving. Something closer to knowing when to hold and when to release. That’s closer to what I’m seeing here. Balinese culture has this concept of Tri Hita Karana, harmony between people, nature, and the divine. Resilience isn’t about never breaking. It’s about staying in balance, rhythm, recovery, knowing your limits before you’re forced to learn them the hard way. I think about the CISOs I work with. The most inspiring ones aren’t the ones who never crack under pressure. They’re the ones who’ve built in the release valve before they need it. And who are openly talking about the need to create these discussions. Maybe that’s the version of resilience the industry needs more of. Less armor, more awareness.
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Tim Brown shared thisCongrats Sachin and the Schellman team!Tim Brown shared thisWe’re excited to welcome Sachin Bansal as Schellman’s new Chief Operating Officer. Sachin understands our industry from nearly every angle. He scaled SecurityScorecard 6X as president, advised top private equity firms on the cybersecurity sector, and knows Schellman firsthand as a two-time client. As our CEO Avani D. put it, he is a listen-and-learn leader and a natural collaborator. He’ll lead global operations, international expansion, strategy, and transformation as we scale for our next phase of growth with our new strategic partner Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Welcome to the team, Sachin! 🎉 Read more: https://lnkd.in/gj5yT_eP
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Tim Brown liked thisTim Brown liked thisJoin the St. Louis cybersecurity community for a special screening of Midnight in the War Room ( https://www.semperis.com/midnight-in-the-war-room/ ), an award-winning documentary by Semperis Media that provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at real-world cyber crisis response and leadership. Hosted by the STL Cyber Mafia, this community event brings together cybersecurity professionals, business leaders, technology innovators, investors, and their guests for an evening of networking, film, conversation, dinner, and community impact. Register here - https://luma.com/topvjou2 The evening is free to registrants and graciously sponsored by several amazing partners. All proceeds of the evening go directly to 2 hardworking local non profits: CyberUp and Autism Speaks. CyberUp Andrew Wilder Roftiel Constantine Larry W.ne Larry W. Mike Ehlers Joey Smith Bill Keeler Semperis Mike Stango
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Tim Brown liked thisTim Brown liked thisThe question of build vs. buy has become more relevant than ever in financial services. As AI makes it easier to build, FIs need to rethink the equation: which solutions to buy, which to build internally, and what infrastructure do they need to support it? Join our webinar on September 16 with Sarthak Pattanaik, Chief Data & AI Officer at BNY, Jason P, CTO at Flagstar, Adam Goldberg, Head of GTM for Financial Services at OpenAI, and Oren Buskila, Co-founder & CEO at Cobalt, for a candid discussion moderated by Eyal Eliakim, Head of AI at Team8, on how financial services are making these choices in practice. 📅 September 16 | 3:30–4:30 PM ET Register here: https://lnkd.in/gV-BkKu5
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Tim Brown liked thisTim Brown liked thisEarlier today, we announced that I will be concluding my tenure at SolarWinds on September 30th. Over the last several months, I worked with our board on a thoughtful succession plan, and we plan to announce further details in the next few weeks. I joined SolarWinds in very unusual circumstances, right as the company experienced the SUNBURST security incident. The outlook was not rosy, to say the least, but we had the grit of our team, the support of our partners, and the trust of our customers. Building on this foundation, we evolved, established new standards with "Secure By Design", modernized our portfolio, and focused on customer success resulting in business success. While I can point to many successful business outcomes, I am most proud of the character our teams demonstrated, our CARE (Collaborative, Accountable, Ready, and Empathetic) values, and our purpose of “enriching the people we serve”! These became the basis for the rock-solid foundation upon which our business grew! Our team, strategy, and roadmap are stronger than at any point in my nearly six years here. I am confident that we will continue to further our purpose and keep earning the trust of our customers. SolarWinds is an integral part of who I am, and I intend to stay close to it. With Cullen Childress, Samuel Monti and the rest of our team in place, the business is well positioned for the next chapter! I will share more reflections of my experiences down the road, but today, as I close my SolarWinds chapter, I want to extend my sincere thanks and gratitude to past and present #Solarians, our partners, and our global customers. With Gratitude, Sudhakar.. #SolarWinds #Gratitude #SecureByDesign https://lnkd.in/gt2zQ3ZYSolarWinds Announces CEO Succession Plan and Appoints Samuel Monti as Chief Financial OfficerSolarWinds Announces CEO Succession Plan and Appoints Samuel Monti as Chief Financial Officer
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Tim Brown liked thisTim Brown liked thisI’m beyond excited and grateful to join Marriott International as their Global CISO. This is an amazing intersection of two passions, Security and Travel, which have fueled my entire career and personal life. I couldn’t imagine being at a better place to continue both. My first week was everything I could have hoped for. I felt energized, inspired, and genuinely welcomed. I’m grateful to everyone who made my onboarding an absolutely wonderful experience. I can’t wait to get to know the whole team and build strong partnerships across the organization. To Naveen Manga and Rena Reiss, thank you for your trust and vote of confidence as I take on this amazing team and program. To Arno Van Der Walt, thank you for the support and insight. I’m humbled to inherit what you have built and appreciate your friendship. To Ian Schneller, thank you keeping the ship on course. Looking forward to your continued insight and expertise. To my directs and team, the sense of professionalism and culture beams brightly in the way you operate. I’m excited to continue maturing the program while we face new challenges and opportunities. Thank you for making me feel at home. To many others who made this move possible, thank you. jessica lee, Gil West, Chris Berg, Tim Langley-Hawthorne, David Jordan, Kimberly S., Patty Cousins, Tracy Forrest, Kaustubh K., Pedro Oliver Alvarez, Timothy Reiser, Jim Terretta, CISSP, Declan O'Donovan, Kathleen Sequeira, and Bam Bam our new puppy.
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Tim Brown liked thisTim Brown liked thisEarlier this summer, Entro Security was acquired by SailPoint. We backed Itzik Alvas and the Entro team from the very beginning, and watching this moment happen was exactly why we do what we do. We spoke with Itzik right after the deal closed and asked him what the process actually taught him. His answer was the kind of thing that sounds simple until you've lived it. "You really need good people to work with you. Good investors that have been there, seen it, and can advise on what to do whenever you're at a junction." He also mentioned the complexity of closing a deal, noting that even small startups can be more complex than large companies when you factor in all the share structures, options, and the number of people whose outcomes you're responsible for. First time exits are rarely what founders imagine. The financial and legal complexity alone is something most people are completely unprepared for. And for founders currently in the valley of despair, his advice was direct: Treat it like a fundraiser. Know your story cold, understand your audience, and be crystal clear about your differentiators relative to the competitive landscape. Once those pieces are tight, things have a way of working out. Itzik is now VP of AI at SailPoint, where he currently leads efforts to consolidate their AI security offering and integrate Entro's technology into the platform. The mission continues: bringing non-human identity security to every company that needs it. This is what successful inception-stage investing looks like. We are incredibly proud of Itzik and the entire Entro team.
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Tim Brown liked thisTim Brown liked thisOn Friday, August 7, I had the honor of being inducted into the Senior Executive Service and sworn in as the Department of the Air Force Chief Information Officer. Being surrounded by family, friends, mentors, and colleagues and seeing the montage of faces representing every season of my life and career was a special gift that I will never forget! It is hard to fully capture what this moment means to me. After 17 years in uniform in the cyber and IT community, and with the privilege of later serving alongside extraordinary teams in the private sector, this role feels like the convergence of every chapter that came before it. In many ways, it feels like coming home — to a mission, a community, and a set of challenges that have shaped so much of who I am as a leader. Service to the United States Air Force has always been deeply personal for my family, and it is a legacy I carry with enormous pride and humility. I am profoundly grateful to Secretary Meink for the trust and confidence he has placed in me, and to the many mentors, teammates, colleagues, and friends who have shaped, challenged, and taught me along the way. The incredible outpouring of support as I have stepped into this role has meant more than I can adequately express, and I am truly thankful. I have read each and every note, text, email, and LinkedIn message, and I have been deeply touched by the kind words of encouragement and the belief in me as I take on this consequential role at this consequential time. We are in a unique window in time — one where AI, data, cybersecurity, and digital modernization will fundamentally change how we work, how we fight, and how we deliver advantage for our Airmen and Guardians. Meeting this moment will take grit. It will take discipline, collaboration, imagination, and courage. And I am all in — ready to get after it with this team, for this mission, and in service to the United States Department of the Air Force and the Nation we are privileged to defend.
Publications
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Harnessing Healthcare Cybersecurity: Achieving Cyber-Resilience in a Time of Crisis - Webinar
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See publicationHigh-profile cyber-attacks are commonplace today, and healthcare organizations suffer more than most industries from vulnerabilities that increase the opportunities for these attacks. By assessing the maturity of your healthcare security program, and building a solid case for taking security seriously, many of these breaches can be prevented or minimized. Join us as security industry experts describe methods and tools that you can use to help secure your organization’s data, and create…
High-profile cyber-attacks are commonplace today, and healthcare organizations suffer more than most industries from vulnerabilities that increase the opportunities for these attacks. By assessing the maturity of your healthcare security program, and building a solid case for taking security seriously, many of these breaches can be prevented or minimized. Join us as security industry experts describe methods and tools that you can use to help secure your organization’s data, and create context-aware and sustainable security programs, while gaining increased support from security leaders throughout your organization.
Patents
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Verification and validation of externally maintained profile attributes
Issued US 8,752,170
Independent verification of user profile attributes that are stored on third-party community-based web sites is provided. A user request indicates target profile attributes to verify. Profile attribute data concerning a profile owner is collected from a plurality of community sites. The collected data is verified, and results of the verification process are stored in a database. When a user views verified profile attributes on a page on a community site, the corresponding stored verification…
Independent verification of user profile attributes that are stored on third-party community-based web sites is provided. A user request indicates target profile attributes to verify. Profile attribute data concerning a profile owner is collected from a plurality of community sites. The collected data is verified, and results of the verification process are stored in a database. When a user views verified profile attributes on a page on a community site, the corresponding stored verification status is retrieved, and an indication of the trust status of the profile is output to the user, for example by modifying the displayed web page to display the trust status.
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Methods and Systems for managing email configuration
Issued US 8244814
A computer-implemented method for managing email configuration may include receiving a first email message from a first device, identifying device-type information in the first email message, identifying a second email message addressed to the first email address, and using the device-type information to select email-configuration information for the second email. The method may further include reformatting a body of the second email based on the email-configuration information, removing an…
A computer-implemented method for managing email configuration may include receiving a first email message from a first device, identifying device-type information in the first email message, identifying a second email message addressed to the first email address, and using the device-type information to select email-configuration information for the second email. The method may further include reformatting a body of the second email based on the email-configuration information, removing an attachment to the second email in response to the email-configuration information, providing a user with the email-configuration information for the second email message, and associating the device-type information with the first email address. A computer-implemented method for including email-configuration information in an email may involve identifying a first email message from a first user, including email-configuration information in the first email message, and sending the first email
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Systems and methods for determining the trustworthiness of a server in a streaming environment
Issued US 8108536
A computer-implemented method for determining the trustworthiness of a server may comprise: 1) identifying a streaming application that originates from a server, 2) determining a trust level for the server, and then 3) determining, based on the trust level, whether to stream the streaming application from the server. The trust level for the server may be determined by comparing current streams (or portions of current streams) received from the server with prior streams to detect change, by…
A computer-implemented method for determining the trustworthiness of a server may comprise: 1) identifying a streaming application that originates from a server, 2) determining a trust level for the server, and then 3) determining, based on the trust level, whether to stream the streaming application from the server. The trust level for the server may be determined by comparing current streams (or portions of current streams) received from the server with prior streams to detect change, by communicating with peer computing systems or reputation services, and/or by analyzing locally stored information. Corresponding systems and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
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Transaction-Based Intrusion Detection
Filed US U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 13/302,395
This Patent Application describes a system that determines or detects one or more acts of intrusion at a resource entity, e.g., an application server, a web server, and/or
other protected resources, based on information related to current and past transactions
performed at the resource entity. The intrusion detection system may be communicatively
coupled with the resource entity, and configured to receive information related to one or more
current transactions requested or…This Patent Application describes a system that determines or detects one or more acts of intrusion at a resource entity, e.g., an application server, a web server, and/or
other protected resources, based on information related to current and past transactions
performed at the resource entity. The intrusion detection system may be communicatively
coupled with the resource entity, and configured to receive information related to one or more
current transactions requested or initiated by a user of a client entity for the resource entity.
The intrusion detection system may include a transaction analysis module that may be
configured to access a database storing a plurality of transactions groups. The transaction
analysis module may be further configured to analyze the received transaction information with
respect to information related to one or more of the plurality of transaction groups. Based on
the analysis, the transaction analysis module may determine a possibility of occurrence of an
intrusion act at the resource entity.Other inventors
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