Monday, August 31, 2020

I'm Joining Securonix

 I’m very happy to announce today I’m starting my journey with Securonix!


I’ve spent the last five years working as an industry analyst, talking to thousands of clients and vendors about their challenges and solutions on security operations. During this time I was able to identify many of common pain points and what vendors have been doing to address them. Some with success, some not much.


Helping clients as an analyst is a great job. It gives you tremendous visibility into their challenges. But it is also somewhat limited into how much you can help them. So I ended up with many ideas and things I’d like to do, but with no right channel to provide them.


That’s why I chose to join Securonix. Securonix has a great platform to deliver many capabilities that organizations need to tackle their threat detection and response problems. I first came into contact with Securonix before my Gartner life, and have been watching it grow and evolve since then. When we produced an UEBA solutions comparison, back in 2016, it was the best one of the batch. But it didn’t stop there.


A few years ago Gartner said SIEM and UEBA would eventually converge. Securonix didn’t miss the trend. Actually, it was one of the main drivers. UEBA vendors first appeared in the SIEM Magic Quadrant back in 2017. Securonix was already there as a Visionary. Actually it was the vendor with the most complete vision at that time. Since then it managed to improve its ability to execute, becoming one of the leaders in the space. It hasn’t missed the major trends since then, adding important capabilities and quickly adapting to offer a great cloud SIEM solution.


Good tools are extremely important to anyone who wants to make a dent on the incredible threat detection and response challenges we face. I’m excited to help with the evolution of the best security operations and analytics platform available today. You can watch this great journey here, , on Linkedin and on Twitter (@apbarros).





Friday, August 28, 2020

From my Gartner Blog - Goodbye!

I’m sadly writing this as my last Gartner blog post! I’m moving to a new challenge. After years as an analyst, I decided it was time to get closer to delivering the initiatives that have been the focus of my research.

I’m immensely grateful for my time with Gartner. It has been a great experience and I had the opportunity to work with many bright people. I leave a special thank you to my mentor and main co-author, my great manager (thanks boss!) and my KIL (“Key Initiative Leader”, internal Gartner lingo).

Working as a Gartner analyst gives you the opportunity to go through incredible experiences. During the past five years, I was able to:

  • Write groundbreaking research on my favorite topics in cybersecurity. It was very rewarding to find people out there building their strategic plans using some of my own words and adding the figures I drew to their slides.
  • Deliver presentations to full audience rooms in many different places in the world. 
  • Provide advice to some of the major vendors in this industry, having very interesting conversations with their main executives.
  • Discuss challenges and solutions with clients from all over the world and from many different industries. You just can’t imagine the crazy types of challenges they are facing out there! From exotic legal requirements to some very particular business characteristics, I have had many memorable calls during these years.
  • Collaborate with very smart colleagues and have exciting (and, how can I say? “Lively”, maybe…) discussions about the future of cybersecurity.
  • Chair the Security Summit in Brazil for two years, working with amazing people and putting together unforgettable events. I will definitely miss the experience to prepare and deliver the opening keynote there!

What I will miss mostly is experiencing those moments when you hear your client saying things like “that was the best advice I’ve ever heard”. Those are the moments that give an analyst a clear view of their sense of purpose. I’m really grateful for being able to go through that as a Gartner analyst.

Thank you Gartner. Thank you my reader. And I hope you follow me back to my personal blog. I’ll still be there.

  

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