Adrian Sanabria was a Senior Analyst on the Information Security team, bringing a broad perspective that drew on more than 12 years of enterprise security experience. Equally comfortable performing a pentest, building an InfoSec program, heading up an incident response team, or discussing market trends, Adrian had covered much of the security spectrum. As an industry analyst, he had a particular focus on threat detection/response technologies and cloud security. Adrian was an optimist, always trying to see the big picture - how things fit. He was ultimately in search of understanding why security is so challenging to accomplish and to understand the core reasons why attempts to improve security continue to fail.
With a background in system administration and system architecture, Adrian was the security architect and chief incident handler for Elavon, one of the largest payment processors in the US. The highlights of his consulting career at Sword & Shield Enterprise Security included designing compliant and secure solutions for large retail organizations; structuring PCI compliance activities for merchants and acquirers; helping a large public university create policies and improve disaster-recovery plans; and performing security assessments for domestic and international clients. Most recently, Adrian joined Clayton Homes, a Berkshire Hathaway company, as a senior security analyst, guiding and maturing its information security program.
Adrian is involved in various volunteer projects within the security community, such as the National Board of Information Security Examiners' (NBISE) efforts to provide analysis on information security job roles and hiring through the Operational Security Testing Panel. Adrian is also involved in the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES), occasionally blogs, and can be found on Twitter as @sawaba.
Even after a recent record tech M&A run, dealmakers still had ambitious shopping plans in 2016. Across the globe, tech acquirers announced $500bn worth of transactions in the just-completed year, ranking 2016 as the second-highest annual total since the internet bubble burst. More than any other year, 2016 saw an expansion of buyers beyond the 'usual suspects,' as old-line companies got caught up in transforming their businesses through M&A.
The fast-moving endpoint security market continues to gain speed as machine learning successfully thwarts a large majority of known and unknown malware, including the likely most-feared category of malware: ransomware. Sophos has joined the machine-learning club with the $100m acquisition of Invincea – just in time for the security industry's largest annual trade show, RSA 2017.
Skyfence has changed hands three years after being acquired by Imperva. The SaaS security-focused vendor's new home is with Forcepoint, where the product portfolio fit makes a great deal more sense.
The company continues to make its mark as a strong competitor in the endpoint security market, showcasing a strength in its flexibility to respond to customers through adding specific product modules to its portfolio. Talk of Tanium's expected IPO may become more than whispers.
The company's latest release of its Falcon Platform has fallen in-line with a number of security vendor announcements, with new features and deeper visibility into its endpoint-detection and response capabilities.
The company exists to serve the legion of large and midsized companies that ought to be seeking evidence that their cybersecurity strategy is working, what it provides and how to measure it. SafeBreach has established early-mover momentum for its platform.
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