Designing Enterprise Platforms

On this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods speaks with Tara Spalding. Spalding is based in Utah and has extensive experience in enterprise software and startups. She was the VP of marketing at SugarCRM, and is now managing director of Boom Startup Accelerator. Their conversation focuses on startup growth lessons and Spalding’s perspective as an incubator executive in a different environment than is typical for most incubators.

This episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR) focuses on a topic that is pandemic related. The episode is about the key internal usability metrics for understanding the productivity impact of the pandemic. EAR’s Dan Woods speaks with Brian Berns, the CEO of KNOA, a company that focuses on tracking metrics about the user experience and usability, and they offer a service that tracks users. They’ve noticed a lot of interesting things going on with the workforce during the pandemic.

On this episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods speaks with Poojan Kumar of Clumio. Their conversation focused on why backup isn’t a key source for data mining, analytics and applications. Kumar is one of the co-founders of Clumio, a modern cloud backup solution. Their conversation covers why, ideally, when you create a backup repository, you have a repository of all the data in a company. In some of the modern solutions, that data is actually accessible and organized, meaning it doesn’t involve just tae images of the backups or data in the rawest possible form -- it has actually understood the data and stored it with a schema. Once that occurs, companies can access the data independently of the original system. But then the question is why this data isn’t being used more often for data mining analytics and applications. Highlights of their conversation includes: 4:30 -- What you can do with backup data 11:30 -- What are the problems with existing backup vendors 20:40 -- Use cases of backup

This edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR) focuses on data management. EAR’s Dan Woods leads a discussion with Ahana’s Steven Mih and Dipti Borkar about using SQL as an integration point, along with how to use object storage. Their conversation covers: 4:30 -- Presto's history and relevance to today's data management landscape 18:00 -- How Presto can deliver a single repository on a query 25:45 -- How Ahana plans to be profitable on the support model 35:00 -- Why query engines are valuable to get value from your data

In this latest episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods focused on how to optimize your BI, data warehouse and data lake spend in the cloud. He was joined today by Jason Nadeau, the VP of marketing from Dremio, who discussed Dremio and the general strategy he’s developed for optimizing this type of spending in the cloud. Their conversation covered: * 7:00 -- How to take advantage of the cloud * 13:30 -- How performance can drive efficiency in the cloud * 26:15 -- Dremio's optimized features * 36:00 -- Dremio's financial model

On the latest episode of the Designing Enterprise Platform Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Steven Mih, the CEO of Alluxio, a data orchestration platform that came out of the AMPLab at Berkeley. It is Mih’s second appearance on the podcast; the first episode covered the core value proposition of Alluxio and related issues with respect to the evolution of the data platform and open source. In this episode, Woods and Mih discussed what it’s like for an early adopter trying to create a data platform in the modern environment. Their conversation focused on creating a data layer that allows abstraction in front of many different data sources so that companies can, in an orderly fashion, refactor what’s underneath and move it to where it’s optimally stored and optimally delivered. This is what Alluxio was designed to do. Their conversation covered: * 2:00 — Creating a data layer that utilizes object storage * 7:00 — How Alluxio approaches platforms from a compute optimized way * 18:00 — How Alluxio helps data engineers * 21:00 — Alluxio use cases

On this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Stan Lowe, chief information security officer at a global level for Zscaler, while both were at RSA 2020. This continued a series of interviews Woods conducted that focused on four key questions about cybersecurity. These questions include: Has cybersecurity been an area in which platforms have been slow to develop?  Why have point solutions been so persistent in the cybersecurity arena? Are we entering an era in which platforms may develop?  And if not, how are we going to deal with a world of all these point solutions? Their conversation covered: * 2:30 -- Why haven't platforms developed in cybersecurity? * 5:15 -- Zscaler's offering * 13:45 -- The need for platforms in cybersecurity * 18:30 -- Balancing cybersecurity needs

In this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods continues his series of interviews from RSA 2020 by sitting down with Jeff Hussey and Bryan Skene from Tempered. Their conversation focused on Woods’ key cybersecurity questions for 2020, which include:  Have platforms in cybersecurity been slower to develop than in other domains?  Why has the rise in point solutions been so broad and persistent?  Are we entering a phase in which broad platforms will emerge and take more of the share spending?  How will all the point solutions be made to work together? The podcast covered: 1:00 -- Tempered's approach 6:00 -- Why Tempered is a cybersecurity platform 12:00 -- Why are there so many point solutions in cybersecurity? 17:30 -- Will we ever get a unified platform?

On this new episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Eyal Hayardeny from Reblaze. Their conversation occurred at RSA 2020 and focused on cybersecurity platforms. They discussed Woods’ four questions for the conference, which include: Have platforms and cybersecurity been slower to develop than in other domains?  Why has the rise in point solutions been so broad and persistent in cybersecurity?  Are we entering a phase in which broad platforms will emerge and take more of the share of spending?  And, if not, how will all the point solutions be made to work together? Reblaze has a suite of related cybersecurity products and focus on integrating different cybersecurity components.  Key points in the podcast include: 1:00 - Reblaze's offering 6:00 - The cause of the slower evolution of cybersecurity platforms 11:00 - Why point solutions have been so prolific 15:50 - The characteristics of the end point solutions aggregators

On this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast with Dan Woods of Early Adopter Research (EAR), Woods speaks with Brendan Hannigan, the CEO and cofounder of Sonrai Security. Sonrai Security is a company that helps govern and secure public cloud platforms. The conversation is part of a series of interviews that occurred at RSA 2020 and covered key questions about the viability of platforms in the cybersecurity landscape, including: * Why have platforms in cybersecurity been slower to develop than in other domains? * Why has the rise in point solutions been so broad and persistent? * Are we entering a phase in which broad platforms will emerge and take more of the share of spending? * And if not, how will all the point solutions be made to work together? Their conversation also covered: 2:00 -- An overview of Sonrai's offerings 5:30 -- Why are there not more platforms in cybersecurity? 13:00 -- The difference between platforms for cybersecurity and other areas of technology 22:00 -- The importance of the portfolio approach to cybersecurity

On this episode of Early Adopter Research’s (EAR) Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Chris Braden from eSentire. Braden is the head of channels and alliances at the company. He spoke about Woods’ research questions at RSA 2020, which included: * What’s blocking comprehensive platforms for cybersecurity? * Have platforms in cybersecurity been slower to develop than in other domains? * Why has the rise in point solutions been so broad and persistent in cybersecurity? * Are we entering a phase in which broad platforms will emerge and take more of the share of spending? And if not, how will all the point solutions be made to work together? Their conversation covered eSentire as well, including: 1:30 - eSentire's approach to cybersecurity 13:00 - What makes developing platforms for cybersecurity different and how point solutions must work together 19:00 - The challenges of integrating end point solutions

On this episode of Early Adopter Research’s (EAR) Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast, Dan Woods, principal and founder of EAR spoke with Rick Tracy, the chief security officer of Telos. Their conversation center on the EAR research mission called “Creating a Balanced Cybersecurity Portfolio.” Tracy has significant hands on experience as a chief information security officer executive, and shared his thoughts on what companies need to consider when managing cybersecurity as a portfolio. This is Tracy’s second appearance on the podcast. Key points in their conversation included: * 1:45 -- What Telos does * 13:00 -- How using a cybersecurity framework helps CEOs * 22:00 -- How pruning can occur by using a framework * 32:00 -- How products must always be viewed within the context of the people using them

On the latest edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Raj Dutt, CEO of Grafana about observability. It’s a concept that Woods has been studying since learning of what Etsy did to make the development process faster. Etsy created huge amounts of observability so they could actually make many changes every day and if anything went wrong, they would find out about it immediately. This practice has become popular in DevOps and in monitoring operational environments. Dutt has been working on software structure that supports observability. Their conversation covered: 4:30 — The origins of Grafana Labs 18:20 — Grafana Labs’ focus 39:00 — The benefits of a platform approach 47:00 — The challenges of this approach 51:00 — The positive and negative trends in open source right now

On this edition of the earlyadopter.com podcast, Early Adopter’s Dan Woods dove into the topic of what cloud data warehouse best fits your needs. Joining him for the conversation were Raghu Chakravarthi, chief product officer of Actian and Bill Westfall, VP of customer success and professional services of Actian. Early Adopter recently completed two papers with Actian, one on changing the concept of total cost of ownership about cloud data warehouses to total cost of usage and the other about the five myths of cloud data warehouses. Those tie into this conversation which covered: 3:00 -- Why new cloud data warehouses are needed 10:30 -- The new frameworks needed for cloud data warehouses 30:00 -- The lessons Actian has learned about implementation

In the latest episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Laird Popkin, who most recently served as CTO of the Hearst Transportation Group, which is a group of B2B companies that provide data and data services related to cars, trucks and airplanes. Popkin previous worked at Kaplan and also helped to create a company for large-scale peer-to-peer data synchronization called Pando. Their conversation explored two main concepts for CTOs, CEOs, or CIOs trying to reconstruct their data platforms: DevOps and DataOps. Their conversation covered: * 5:35 - How Popkin implemented DevOps successfully * 15:30 - How to break down silos * 21:30 - The challenges of DataOps

In this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast of Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods speaks with Dan Seltzer, the former CTO of Credit Junction, about modern data architectures. The term modern data architecture has been used by vendors to mean a variety of things but Woods’ conversation focuses on the transition from the data architecture of SQL databases and data warehouses, and Hadoop, to the cloud. Their conversation covered: *5:15 -- What do we mean when we say modern data architectures? *18:30 -- The need to know where your data is without using complex code *33:00 -- The functions of data catalog

In this episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods speaks with Monte Zweben, the CEO and cofounder of Splice Machine. Like Woods, Zweben has been an observer of the Hadoop ecosystem for quite some time. Splice Machine is a distributed SQL database but it’s also a database that is able to handle transactional workloads and analytical workloads at scale at the same time. Given that many of those analytic workloads were handled on Hadoop, their conversation centers on the recent happenings with Hadoop. Their conversation covered: * 5:25 -- The history of Hadoop and the problems it faces * 21:00 -- Why schema on read was a major problem for Hadoop * 31:00 -- What is needed for a true big data architecture * 42:15 -- Why scale out architectures are cheaper than scale up

On this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), Dan Woods, founder and principal analyst at EAR speaks with Raghu Murthy, founder and CEO of DataCoral. DataCoral is a product that is focused on automating the creation and maintenance of data pipelines. Their conversation covered how technology can create value from data. Now that every business has a wealth of data about its operations and its customers, there’s a huge number of products focused on making this data valuable. Their conversation covered: * 2:30 — DataCoral’s origin story * 10:00 — DataCoral’s product dogmas * 35:00 — How DataCoral constrains the problem of creating data pipelines

In this edition of the Early Adopter Research’s Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast, Dan Woods, principle analyst of Early Adopter Research spoke with Stephen Owens, the CTO of ThoughtWire. They discussed ThoughtWire’s platform for creating interesting applications based on sensor data, digital twins, and various types of automaton and analysis. Their conversation covered: * 2:00 -- The power of semantics with digital twins * 18:30 -- The core dogmas of ThoughtWire * 33:00 -- ThoughtWire's magic tricks with specific use cases

On this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast of Early Adopter Research (EAR), Dan Woods, the founder and principal analyst at Early Adopter Research speaks with Steven Mih, the CEO of a new company called Alluxio. Alluxio is a company that comes out of the AMPLab at UC Berkeley, which brought the world Spark and many other products for processing data at scale. The AMPLab has created a stack that has a variety of different components, and Alluxio was originally Tachyon and then now has become, in its commercial form, Alluxio. They spoke about an issue of separating the storage from compute engines from the actual compete engines themselves. In the cloud, companies have had increasingly amounts of possibilities of storing in object storage and then having a variety of different compute engines applied to that storage. But that leads to having storage in many places. Some of that storage may be on something like S3, some of it may be on premise, some of it may be in another cloud. The solution that Alluxio proposes to this challenge is what it calls storage orchestration. Their conversation covers: * 4:30 - How to manage many different data storage platforms * 16:30 - Powerful use cases for Alluxio's technology * 22:00 - How Alluxio fits into the open source world

In a recent edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Mike McConnell about a crucial topic in cybersecurity, authentication. McConnell is the former head of the NSA, and an expert in cybersecurity, especially in getting governments and nations to do a better job. He is also one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book from Fortinet CISO Phil Quade called The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff, and the Future of Cybersecurity. The Digital Big Bang book puts forth a big history style explanation of cybersecurity. Phil Quade proposes a framework for creating a truly scientific approach to cybersecurity. Quade’s ambition is to find a way to systematically address many of the problems that have risen up because cybersecurity was not properly incorporated into the design of the internet. Woods is a technology analyst and founder of earlyadopter.com, a research publication that focuses on high value use cases and how to create multi-product platforms to implement them. He played the role of editor for Phil Quade’s book, which came out in preview at Fortinet’s Accelerate conference in April 2019 and should be published by John Wiley by August. Their conversation covered: * 4:30 - Why authentication is the most important cybersecurity building block * 11:00 - The four dimensions of cybersecurity communications * 22:00 - The need to be proactive in cybersecurity

In this edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke about connectivity and the IOT with Brian Talbert, the head of networking and connectivity for Alaska Airlines. He was one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book from Fortinet’s CISO Phil Quade, called The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff and the Future of Cybersecurity. The Digital Big Bang proposes a framework for creating a truly scientific approach to cybersecurity. Phil Quade’s ambition is to find a way to systematically address many of the problems that have arisen because cybersecurity was not properly incorporated in the design of the internet. Talbert is an expert in networking and connectivity and he spoke with Woods about what he can teach cybersecurity professionals. Woods is a technology analyst and founder of earlyadopter.com, a research publication that focuses on implementing high value use cases with multi-product platforms. He played the role of editor in Phil Quade’s book, which came out in preview at Fortinet’s Accelerate conference in April 2019 and should be published by John Wiley in August. * 1:40 - The connectivity demands of the IOT are unimaginable * 3:45 - Why is this different than past challenges * 7:00 - Using AI to keep up with new threats

On this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke about patching with Renee Tarun, VP of Information Security at Fortinet. She is one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book from Fortinet CISO Phil Quade entitled The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff and the Future of Cybersecurity. The Digital Big Bang puts forth a big history style explanation of cybersecurity. In the book Phil Quade proposes a framework for creating a truly scientific approach to cybersecurity. Phil Quade’s ambition is to find a way to systematically address many of the problems that have risen up because cybersecurity was not properly incorporated into the design of the internet. Tarun is an expert in patching and monitoring real time cybersecurity operations as well. Woods is a technology analyst and founder of EarlyAdopter.com, a research publication that focuses on high-value use cases and how to create multi-product platforms to implement them. He played the role of editor for Phil Quade’s book, which came out in preview at Fortinet’s Accelerate Conference in April 2019 and should be published by John Wiley in August. Their conversation covered: * 2:10 - The undervalued importance of patching * 4:05 - Can gamification work for patching * 7:00 - The need for libraries to help with patching

On a recent edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods covered cryptography, a crucial topic in cybersecurity. To delve into the issue, he spoke with Taher Elgamal, CTO for security at Salesforce. Elgamal was one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book by Fortinet’s CISO, Phil Quade, The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff and the Future of Cybersecurity. The Digital Big Bang book puts forth a history-style explanation of cybersecurity and it proposes a framework for creating a truly scientific approach to cybersecurity. Phil Quade’s ambition is to find a way to systematically address many of the problems that have risen because cybersecurity was not properly incorporated into the design of the internet. Taher is an expert in cryptography and he spoke about what cybersecurity professionals should know about cryptography. Woods, a technology analyst and founder of earlyadopter.com, played a role as editor for Phil Quade’s book which came out in preview in April but will be published in August of 2019 by John Wiley. * 1:55 - Why the fears of quantum computing breaking cryptography are overblown * 3:30 - How to be safe in a quantum powered future * 6:00 - Do vendors need to become more agile?

On this edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Fortinet CISO Phil Quade about his new book, The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff and the Future of Cybersecurity. The Digital Big Bang puts forth a big history-style explanation of cybersecurity, a narrative similar to that of Guns, Germs, and Steel or Sapiens, two popular big history books. In the book, Quade proposes a framework for creating a truly scientific approach to cybersecurity. Quade’s ambition is to find a way to systematically address many of the problems that have risen up because cybersecurity was not properly incorporated into the design of the internet. EAR’s Dan Woods is technology analyst and founder of earlyadopter.com, a research publication that focuses on high value use cases and how to create multi-product platforms to implement them. The Early Adopter team played the role of editor for Quade’s book, which came out in preview at Fortinet’s Accelerate conference in April, 2019 and will be published by John Wiley in August. Their conversation covered: * 1:45 - The idea behind the digital big bang * 6:00 - The need for cultural focus in cybersecurity * 11:45 - The best ways to build on your fundamental strategies for cybersecurity

In this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast at Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Tomer Shiran, the CEO and founder of Dremio. Their conversation focused on how to create a data lake for an end user, a topic that anybody who’s worried about BI and analytics should be interested in. This podcast series looks at various ways of understanding technology and how to combine technology to create platforms to solve vital problems for the enterprise. There probably is no more vital problem than how to actually get your data infrastructure correct. Their conversation covered: * 3:00 - How companies are trying to save the data lake * 17:00 - The need for open source and fast query speed * 29:00 - Why an open source project is not a product

On this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, “Designing Enterprise Platforms,” EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with MapR’s CTO Ted Dunning. Designing Enterprise Platforms is a podcast about the deeper issues involved in creating big victories in enterprise technology. MapR is a company that has been around for most of the Hadoop era and has always taken the point of view that Hadoop was a great infrastructure that needed to be improved. MapR makes these improvements through the file system and then layering on a variety of other components. Their conversation covered: * 3:55 - The vision for MapR * 9:00 - What executives shouldn't know about their data systems * 14:30 - Why naming data is so important * 21:00 - Why data logistics are easier with a data fabric

In this episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast at Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods explored the top of robotic process automation (RPA). Woods spoke with Allan Anderson, director of enterprise solutions at IPsoft, one of the leading vendors in a space that includes RPA, conversational AI, and low code. RPA has become popular as companies have tried to expand automation throughout the front office. We’ve had many solutions focused on the back office but RPA is explicitly focused on helping expand automation to people who are usually using software. Many different systems can be tied together using these methods. Their conversation covered: * 2:30 - The core dogmas behind RPA * 7:30 - The range of IPSoft's solutions using automation * 23:00 - How IPSoft's Amelia can help companies * 31:30 - Technology leverage created by automation

In this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Paul Vian, SVP of sales, and marketing, and Bill Saltys, SVP of alliances from Apps Associates. Apps Associates is a leading firm that helps companies migrate their Oracle applications and databases to different platforms. The conversation centered on EAR’s escape hatch from Oracle research mission which focuses on educating people about the choices they have when they manage their Oracle relationship. Woods, Vian, and Saltys discussed how to navigate an Oracle migration journey in the lowest risk, highest productivity way. Their conversation covered: * 4:30 - The findings of Apps Associates' E-Book * 11:30 - Customer demand for moving to the cloud * 19:00 - The stages of migrating to the cloud * 21:00 - What are the benefits of moving Oracle to the cloud?

In this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Leanne Waldal, a leading technology researcher who understands how to create programs and manage research and analytics departments to support product development and design. Her career has spanned many different areas including user experience research. The Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast focuses on understanding how to create platforms that serve users inside and outside of companies. Their conversation covers: * 4:30 - User excitement leads to better product adoption * 13:45 - Is A/B testing part of research? * 22:30 - How do you make research successful in businesses of all sizes? * 31:00 - The best way to start with research

In this episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods covers the topic of site reliability engineering. Site reliability engineering is a practice that rose up in the internet giants to help them create highly reliable, high performant, but also fast moving systems. It is essentially an extension of the dev ops movement. To delve into the topic, we spoke with Ashar Rizqi and Lyon Wong, the founders of a company called Blameless. Blameless takes site reliability engineering practices and productizes them. Their conversation covers: * 2:00 - The story of the creation of Blameless * 13:00 - The history of site reliability engineering * 22:30 - What a blameless culture looks like * 36:45 - Escaping a culture of blame

In this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast for Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with John Maddison, the EVP of products for Fortinet, a leading cybersecurity company. Designing Enterprise Platforms focuses on how to use products and other technology to create a platform to solve a problem. We at Early Adopter Research believe in what we call research missions, which are descriptions of high value use cases. In this case, the research mission this podcast is related to is creating a balanced cybersecurity portfolio. In this podcast, Woods and Maddison talk about three topics, starting with SD WAN technology, which is helping companies solve problems that are related to zero trust and perimeterless issues. They also cover security-driven networking, and end with the arrival of the edge and how companies are going to secure both what they have in data centers and in the cloud, but also what is increasingly becoming an important part of almost every company’s infrastructure, which are edge devices and IOT devices. * 3:00 - What is SD WAN Technology? * 13:00 - How do you understand risk level in cybersecurity? * 22:45 - How can you provide the right security for a perimeterless environment?

In this latest episode of the Early Adopter Research podcast at RSA 2019, Dan Woods spoke with Jamil Jaffer, VP of strategy and partnerships for IronNet. They covered Woods’ three big cybersecurity questions for 2019, as well as other pressing topics in the cybersecurity sphere. * :30 - What IronNet does * 7:30 - Is cybersecurity pruning possible? * 12:30 - How will cloud migration impact cybersecurity? * 17:45 - The need to educate boards about threats

In Early Adopter Research’s continuing series on cybersecurity from the RSA 2019 conference, Dan Woods spoke with Rick Tracy, chief security officer for Telos. Woods asked his three big cybersecurity questions for 2019, as well as exploring the landscape of cybersecurity in general. Their conversation covers: * :50 - Telos' fit in the cybersecurity landscape * 6:30 - What does zero trust mean in practice? * 12:00 - The expanding world of cybersecurity products * 20:30 - The impact of the CIA's decision to adopt the cloud

In the latest episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Carolyn Crandall, the chief deception officer of Attivo Networks, while both were at the RSA 2019 Conference. Their conversation covered Woods’ three big cybersecurity questions for the year, and Crandall also explained the position of Attivo Networks in the cybersecurity landscape. They covered: * 1:00 - The value of deception technology * 7:15 - Can companies really build their own zero trust technology stack? * 12:00 - Pruning cybersecurity * 18:00 - Avoiding throwing more technology at cybersecurity problems

Continuing the series of interviews Dan Woods of Early Adopter Research conducted at RSA 2019, in this installment, he spoke with Rajarshi Gupta, VP of AI at Avast Software, a cybersecurity vendor. Woods and Gupta covered key cybersecurity questions for 2019, as well as discussing Avast Software’s place in the market. Their conversation covered: * 1:00 - Avast's place in the cybersecurity marketplace * 6:30 - How to ensure the right people have the right access * 7:15 - Is portfolio pruning possible in cybersecurity? * 16:45 - What models should companies be using to train their AI-based cybersecurity?

At RSA 2019 in San Francisco, Dan Woods of the Early Adopter Research Podcast met with a number of cybersecurity leaders. In this interview, he sat down with Grant Bourzikas, the CISO of McAfee, one of the major vendors in the cybersecurity space. They covered Woods’ three major cybersecurity questions for the year, as well as exploring McAfee’s place in the cybersecurity landscape. The conversation included: * 3:10 - McAfee's product portfolio * 6:30 - What does zero trust look like in practice * 13:00 - Can companies prune their cybersecurity portfolios? * 20:00 - The importance of using a product the way it was intended to be used

In the next installment of our series on conversations Early Adopter Research’s Dan Woods had about cybersecurity at RSA 2019, this podcast is an interview he had with Illumio’s Andy Rubin, the company’s co-founder and CEO, and PJ Kirner, the company’s co-founder and CTO. Woods asked about his three key cybersecurity questions for the year, as well as having his guests explain Illumio’s fit in the cybersecurity landscape. The interview included: * 3:00 - The need for segmentation in cybersecurity * 10:00 - What CISOs should do with zero trust * 17:30 - Managing risk in cybersecurity * 24:20 - Improving operational discipline in cybersecurity * 35:00 - Managing cyber insurance

At RSA 2019, Dan Woods from Early Adopter Research spoke with Sam McLane, the CTSO of Arctic Wolf for the EAR Podcast. They covered Woods’ three key cybersecurity questions for 2019 and discussed how to create a balanced cybersecurity portfolio. Their conversation included discussion of: * 2:20 - Arctic Wolf's place in the cybersecurity landscape * 4:00 - What does zero trust mean in reality? * 12:30 - How companies are trying to combat the lack of cybersecurity talent * 17:00 - How is cloud migration impacting cybersecurity? * 24:30 - How do companies get the right cybersecurity culture?

This podcast is part of a series of conversations Dan Woods of Early Adopter Research conducted while at RSA 2019 for the EAR Podcast. In this interview, he speaks with Phil Quade, CISO of Fortinet. Woods and Quade covered a variety of topics such as zero trust and cybersecurity migration to the cloud. Their conversations covers: * 1:00 - Fortinet's product offering * 8:15 - Why segmentation is powerful as a cybersecurity tool * 15:15 - The necessity of greater integration in cybersecurity * 22:00 - How will cloud migration work for cybersecurity? * 26:00 - Is cyber insurance necessary?

At this year’s RSA 2019, Dan Woods of the Early Adopter Research podcast spoke with Tim Mackey, the senior technology evangelist at Software Integrity, a division of Synopsys. As Woods did with other tech leaders he spoke with at the conference, he asked about his three key cybersecurity questions for the year. There conversation covered: * 2:30 - What Synopsys does * 4:30 - The reality of zero trust * 8:45 - Should companies be focusing on pruning their cybersecurity portfolios? * 12:25 - How fast will the migration of cybersecurity components to the cloud occur?

Recently, at RSA 2019, Dan Woods of Early Adopter Research (EAR) spoke with Nick Lantuh, CEO of Fidelis in cybersecurity, for the EAR Podcast. During the interview, Woods asked Lantuh his three pressing cybersecurity questions for 2019, as well as getting a sense of where Fidelis fits into the cybersecurity landscape. Their conversation covered: * 3:15 - Why zero trust is additive * 10:15 - Should companies prune their cybersecurity portfolio? * 19:10 - Should CISOs focus on proving their ops discipline? * 25:45 - Is cyber insurance worth it?

This podcast is a continuation of the series of conversations that Dan Woods of Early Adopter Research (EAR) conducted with leaders in the cybersecurity field while at RSA 2019. In this interview, he speaks with Brian Contos, CISO of Verodin. Woods asked Contos his three major cybersecurity questions for the years, as well as exploring Verodin’s place in the cybersecurity marketplace. Their conversation covered: * 4:00 - Can zero trust provide what it promises? * 4:50 - Why aren't companies pruning cybersecurity products? * 9:40 - The need to evaluate cybersecurity through both people and processes * 15:00 - Why CISOs should focus more on dev ops

At RSA 2019, Early Adopter Research’s (EAR) Dan Woods spoke with a number of leaders in the cybersecurity field. In this interview for the EAR Podcast, he sat down with Malcolm Harkins, chief security and trust officer of Cylance. Woods asked Harkins his three key cybersecurity questions for 2019 and dove into the topics that are most impacting CISOs right now. Their conversation covered: * 2:00 - Cylance's place in the cybersecurity landscape * 9:00 - Why people are the perimeter * 16:05 - Does pruning in cybersecurity matter? * 24:10 - Why is so little cybersecurity moving to the cloud? * 29:20 - How do you improve cybersecurity awareness among staff?

In this edition of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Andrew Peterson, the CEO of Signal Sciences, while both were at RSA 2019. Woods asked him his three key questions for cybersecurity in 2019, as well as exploring Signal Sciences’ technology. The topics they covered included: * 3:30 - Does zero trust work? * 10:00 - Avoiding security nihilism * 15:30 - Why is cybersecurity always additive? * 23:00 - Why don't more companies improve their ops dev? * 27:00 - How do you make cybersecurity integral to a company's culture?

In this edition of the Early Adopter Research(EAR)Podcast, EAR's Dan Woods speaks with Scott Petry, the CEO of Authentic8. Their conversation focused on the current cybersecurity landscape and Authentic8's approach of securing the browser. Their discussion also covered: * 2:30 - Zero Trust * 7:20 - Why is cybersecurity always additive? * 13:30 - How will cybersecurity change as it moves to the cloud? * 20:00 - How to be a rational buyer in cybersecurity * 24:30 - Is cyber insurance necessary?

At the RSA 2019 Conference this year, Early Adopter Research’s Dan Woods spoke with a number of cybersecurity professionals. One conversation was with Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer at Carbon Black. Woods asked Kellermann about his three key cybersecurity questions for 2019 and delved into the future of cybersecurity in general. Their conversation covered the following topics: * 2:00 - Carbon Black's service model * 8:50 - Why are companies not pruning cybersecurity products? * 16:00 - Why cybersecurity companies shouldn't be auditing their clients * 24:30 - Is cyber insurance worth it? * 29:00 - Carbon Black's report on growing cybersecurity threats

At this year’s RSA conference, Early Adopter Research’s Dan Woods sat down for a podcast conversation with Michael Covington, VP of product strategy for Wandera. They discussed a number of topics, including an overview of what Wandera does. Woods also asked Covington about his three key cybersecurity questions for 2019. Their conversation also covered: * 2:40 - Zero trust * 9:10 - The need for visibility in a BYOD environment * 14:10 - Should CISOs focus on operational discipline? * 17:30 - How to improve the people side of security * 20:45 - Is cybersecurity insurance necessary?

At this year’s RSA Conference, Early Adopter Research’s Dan Woods conducted a podcast with Stan Lowe from Zscaler. Lowe is the Global CISO for Zscaler and their conversation covered three big questions about cybersecurity in 2019. Topics covered in the podcast include: * 3:15 - Is "zero trust" cybersecurity a reality? * 9:00 - Can companies move everything to the cloud? * 18:30 - The change in how security experts need to think about their jobs * 25:00 - What's the best way to create a culture of cybersecurity? * 30:00 - Is cybersecurity insurance worth it?

In this latest edition of the Early Adopter Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with First Round's Howard Morgan about how digital transformation fits into the larger history of technological change. The conversation covers the following: * 3:00 - The nebulous definition of digital transformation * 10:00 - Business process engineering * 13:30 - Six Sigma * 22:30 - How reusable code has changed software development * 31:30 - OKRs and how they're relevant to digital transformation

In this edition of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Early Adopter's Dan Woods speaks with Rob Woollen, CEO of Sigma Computing.Sigma Computing’s products can be a component inside an enterprise platform, as the company was created to bring the spreadsheet paradigm to the world of business intelligence and data analytics. This is an idea that has been explored by companies like 1010data, DataMirror, and to some extent Looker. Woods and Woollen talk about how Sigma Computing came to be and how the company can play a role in the modern data landscape. Their conversation covers: * 1:30 - Why the spreadsheet interface is the basis of Sigma Computing's technology * 3:00 - The origins of Sigma Computing * 9:15 - Sigma's answer to hiding the complexity of queries * 15:45 - Sigma leaves data in its place * 26:45 - How Sigma users fit into the data supply chain