Aaron Sherrill is a Senior Research Analyst for 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, covering emerging trends, innovation and disruption in the Information Security channel with an emphasis on service providers.
Aaron joined 451 Research after serving as Vice President of Information Security and Chief Technology Officer for two large, pure-play managed service providers. He was instrumental in developing and growing the service provider business, driving the strategy and vision for the companies, developing and leading information security programs, and bringing new managed cloud and security services to the marketplace.
Aaron has 20+ years of experience across a variety industries including serving in IT management for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He holds degrees in business and computer science, and has an MBA along with multiple certifications, including the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) credential.
The company is looking to transform security validation and minimize the likelihood and impact of compromise through its continuous and automated breach and attack simulation platform. SafeBreach says it is enabling enterprise security teams to better understand and reduce risk across the organization's entire digital footprint.
Security teams are increasing spending in almost every part of their security programs, yet few organizations regularly test their effectiveness other than annual third-party assessments to meet compliance mandates. With a SaaS approach, Randori is aiming to help security teams become proactive about validating the defenses, tools and processes in place to protect their critical assets and data.
The company has long been comfortable with engineering challenges on a massive scale. Taking to the virtual stage at at Google Cloud Next '20 OnAir, it highlighted capabilities related to confidential computing, certificates, DDoS and more.
Continuing its M&A push, Palo Alto has announced the purchase of The Crypsis Group, an incident response, risk management and digital forensics consulting firm. The buyer plans to incorporate Crypsis' capabilities into its Cortex XDR platform, enhancing its ability to initiate rapid response actions
The COVID-19 pandemic could accelerate or hinder these initiatives, which embrace multiple technology segments. Will they be successful, or become mere positioning that could further frustrate the security buyer? That could depend on whether their components are complementary in practice.
Israeli startup Vdoo targets integrated device security across the entire device lifecycle for OEMs and vendors of connected devices, embedded systems and IoT products. The platform empowers OEMs to offer ongoing managed security services or partner with MSPs and MSSPs to deliver these services.
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