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AppLearn is a leading digital adoption platform vendor that helps enterprises improve the data quality and productivity of their key internal systems.In this episode, Andrew Avanessian, CEO of AppLearn, talks through the incredible business they've built, from how they chose their core values, to being voted the 5th best tech business to work for and rank in the "Best Companies" list, and what they did to achieve this. Andrew then dives into how they have broken down silos within the business to get different departments to work closely together, and the impact this has had on the product.Finally, Andrew talks through changing from a service business to a SaaS product, as well as touching on their US investment and the key to targeting the US market. Questions asked:1. Intro to Andrew and Applearn2. Applearn isn't the first tech scale-up you've worked for, you previously worked for Avecto (now Beyond Trust) what did you bring with you to Applearn that you learnt at Avecto?3. You were recently voted as the 5th best tech business to work for and rank in the "Best Companies" list. What have you done to achieve this? What does it mean to you as CEO?4. What are the core values that sit at the heart of Applearn? Why did you pick them?5. One of the things we discussed when putting the podcast together was breaking down silos within the business and getting different departments to work closely with each other - what have you achieved in doing this?6. You've turned Applearn from a Services business to SaaS, can you talk us through this? What were the challenges on the way?7. Your main investors sit in the US, why did you go to the USA for this?8. What was the experience like in raising investment over in the US?9. One of the key markets that you've sold to in your career is the US. Can you tell us a bit about targeting US businesses?10. What's the biggest challenge in your career to date?11. What's the one bit of advice you would give to someone moving to join a start up?Follow The Start-Up Diaries Podcast on LinkedIn or learn more about Burns Sheehan. Subscribe and leave a review!
ITSPmagazine’s John Dasher sat down at Black Hat 2018 with Tal Guest of Bomgar to talk about privileged access management. Bomgar specializes in privileged access management (PAM) and has products that help support these types of use cases. Their recent acquisition of Avecto, an endpoint privilege management company is the perfect complement to Bomgar’s existing PAM solutions. You need privileges to move around in the environment and with Avecto’s additional layer of defense at the endpoint, Bomgar customers can remove excess admin rights throughout their organizations and only elevate privileges for approved applications and actions. The effect that you can have on mitigating and remediating a potential breach within your environment just by having a process in place so that you can change all the privilege credentials within the organization – you can respond to just about any threat that you are faced with. They also touch on the cloud and how it has impacted businesses, both the problem and the solutions.
Co-CEOs, can this concept ever work? According to research, the answer is no – it almost never works. According to Paul Kenyon and Mark Austin, the answer is yes – it’s the only way Avecto would have achieved the success it has to date, securing 8 million endpoints. The two have been running Avecto together in cohesion for the past decade, but this isn’t their first time leading together. Mark and Paul worked together as co-founders of the company AppSense. While they didn’t know exactly what technology they wanted to create for their next company, they did know that for their next endeavor the only way it would work is if they were Co-CEOs. Paul and Mark both believe the most successful leaders find their opposite and learn from them every day. I invited them onto the show today to learn more about their tech startup story and explore the concept of Co-CEOs and how Paul and Mark have made this structure successful. Guest Info Mark Austin: leads Avecto's research and development teams, driving the company's constant innovation. He has a background in software engineering and over 25 years of industry experience in all things technical. Paul Kenyon: is in charge of Avecto’s sales and marketing division. Paul is responsible for promoting the benefits of simple and smart endpoint security to global businesses. He has a background in commercial challenges, with over 800 global brands to draw experience from.
Our guest on SBI TV is Robin Saitz, the Chief Marketing Officer at Avecto. Robin is a transformational marketing executive who knows how to get off to a quick start in a new role. In today's show we demonstrate how to get off to a fast start in a CMO's first 90 days. If you prefer to watch a video of the interview, click here. Getting off to a fast start actually starts in the interview process. Robin interviews with the end in mind, and through the interview process she learns a great deal about the company and team. She dove deep into learning about Avecto, a cybersecurity software company that provides privileged management and application control solutions. Robin states, "I think the interview process is actually sort of like that pre-first day. It's not really counted in the first 90 days, but the interview process I think is a core part of preparing for those first 90 days. So, I like to say that I was interviewing the company as much as they were interviewing me, and it wasn't just to make the decision to join, but also, to help answer ... to get answers to questions that I had that would make my first day and the first month go well. So I insisted on meeting with a lot of people in this process, because it was a big decision for me, and it was a big decision for them." Once Robin accepted the role as CMO, she prepared for her first day and how she planned out her first 90-days before the start date. Listen as Robin describes her preparation steps. Matt summarizes Robin's first 90 days, "she articulates how she broke down short-term first 90-day initiatives to put points on the board along with more longer-term initiatives that needed to get done. Robin articulate how she broke down short-term first 90-day initiatives, kind of putting points on the board as we like to say, with more longer-term initiatives that needed to get done. Building that content strategy. Knowing it was both people and resources. Recognizing that, but willing to live with not just doing something haphazard out of the first 90 days to check a box, being thoughtful." Robin describes how to assess the marketing team and shares: "So whenever a CMO or any new leader joins a company, I think there's probably a healthy amount of skepticism, nervousness and excitement. It's like all of that. So, kind of have to like knock down the nervousness and skepticism. And so, I firmly believe it's important to understand the individual career objectives and the job satisfaction of each team member. So that's sort of like the first set of questions that I tried to hit on with my team, and I met with all of them individually. And then I also tried to understand ... I collected feedback from their peers, from folks inside marketing, folks outside of marketing." "I also assess their work output, their responsiveness, and then to the extent, metrics were available. I would look at metrics. Then the other thing that we use that we're testing, we haven't adopted it broadly at Avecto, but I used at my previous company is the Predictive Index for behavioral assessments. I said, "Hey, I'd love to pilot it with the marketing organization," and they were very cooperative with that. So everybody's taken the PI. We have an understanding of who's got a strong process orientation, who's got a high sense of urgency, who's very dominant, and that I think will help the whole organization function better."
Katy is a Customer Success evangelist; currently Global Head of Success at Avecto but also shares her thoughts and experiences with the Customer Success network. Her years spent working alongside customers to ensure that they successfully adopt, implement and obtain the original benefits sought from security solutions means that she is an experienced voice on every aspect of the customer journey. Katy has been with Avecto 7 years and has built their Global Customer Success department from the ground up.
Episode 2 saw Jim Jones, CEO at Voyant Consulting and Katy Batley, Global Head of Customer Success at Avecto join me. The three key topics covered today included: - Data & consumption analytics and the part it plays in Customer Success. - Customer feedback and using it to make positive business change. - Career development within the Customer Success space. As always, we wrapped it up with my 3 in 3 so look out for our guests favorite business books, favorite cities and favorite brands. During the podcast there are some referenced books, blogs and content which you can find here: - Jim's blog post "The Customer Feedback Loop" - http://bit.ly/2gJqV2f - Jim's favorite business book "The Effortless Experience" by Matthew Dixon - http://amzn.to/2ylijc7 - Katy's favorite business book "The Challenger Sale" by Matthew Dixon - https://goo.gl/P4bPi3
Per te la Sicurezza Informatica riguarda solo i siti governativi e quelli delle grandi aziende?Accedi ancora ai tuoi account sui social network con la stessa password?Hai sentito parlare di furti di identà digitali ma non credi possa capitare anche a te?Se hai paura e vuoi rafforzare la tua cybersecurity questa puntata è fatta apposta per te.Infatti, nella puntata di oggi Davide Galanti ci insegnerà a cambiare qualche nostra piccola abitudine per proteggere i nostri dati.Per chi non conoscesse ancora Davide Galanti, Davide è un imprenditore, esperto di Cloud Computing, Continuità operativa e Sicurezza Informatica. Davide ha fondato diverse aziende fra cui Serverlab, una realtà nota per la sua capacità di costruire infrastrutture informatiche sicure.### NOTE ###Puoi seguire Davide Galanti principalmente su http://www.Serverlab.itOvviamente Davide è presente su tutti i social più diffusi:Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChbv7F8NxoGtoxdHUcelbCgTwitter https://twitter.com/davide_galantiLinkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/davide-galanti-9804743Nella puntata Davide Galanti ha citato Avecto un prodotto in grado di proteggere dai cryptolocker: http://www.avecto.serverlab.itAscolta interamente la puntata:http://www.MERITA.BIZ/16### PODCAST ###https://www.MERITA.BIZ/PODCAST Sottoscrivi il podcast su: iTunes: http://j.mp/MERITA-ITUNES Stitcher:http://j.mp/MERITA-STITCHER Spreaker:http://j.mp/MERITA-SPREAKERSpotifyhttps://spoti.fi/2qIXimFTELEGRAMhttps://telegram.me/meritabiz Sostieni Merita Business podcast.Fai una donazione in criptovalute.Qui le istruzioni: https://www.merita.biz/crypto-donazioniBitcoin (BTC)3K2VFhnChh5yTUbp6YiwkrUC2xKUzQdnYSEthereum (ETH)0x4c43488DFbAd12c1c0f1c16Dca84239FAF920F69 Litecoin (LTC)MD5BuTNAYPKkyazEb5WEnXFk7CW3S4LE9Y Il tuo supporto consente al podcast di continuare e migliorare.
Users running as local admins on their machine are a big risk! This episode discusses some reasons why, and also here is the link to the Avecto study I mention regarding how many Microsoft vulnerabilities would be thwarted by removing admin rights. 7MS #61: Why Local Admin Rights Suck (audio)