I'm excited to announce my new role as Chief Revenue Officer at Push, the team bringing identity threat detection and response into every browser.
I'm excited to announce my new role as Chief Revenue Officer at Push, the team bringing identity threat detection and response into every browser.
Over the course of my career, I have had the chance to work with some incredible teams at places like Proofpoint and CrowdStrike, both of which were trailblazers in protecting clients from advanced adversary attacks. As I take on this new role at Push Security, I am excited to be joining another team where the foresight into how cyber attacks are evolving is front and center. As attackers shift to infiltrating organizations via user identities, Push is meeting that shift by pioneering a new approach in the identity threat detection and response (ITDR) space, with browser-based identity protection.
When I first sat down with our CEO Adam Bateman and heard his vision, it was clear to me that Push recognizes that attacks are evolving and the bad actors have set their sights on the new perimeter – identity. Recent attacks making headlines, like the Snowflake incident over the summer, make it clear that cyber attacks are fundamentally changing. It’s a bit of a cliche, but hackers don’t hack in anymore, they log in. Push is at the forefront of tackling this problem in a way that no one else is addressing. Our approach to browser telemetry is a game-changer in the way we can approach and defend against identity attacks.
Legacy ITDR-aligned solutions feel like bolt-ons, not true problem solvers
Talking with industry friends and advisors before taking this new role confirmed what I believe: that Push has the potential to drive a much-needed evolution in identity security. The modern ITDR space is still relatively early, with many pain points around the blind spots of existing tools and a less-than-satisfactory state of SaaS logging, leaving many security teams in the dark.
In a world dominated by vendors who have lost focus on providing best-of-breed features designed for specific problems in favor of very broad product portfolios that try to solve everything-everywhere-all-at-once, ITDR is not yet a problem space that is being adequately served by traditional vendors and tools.
Push Security’s unique solution has the power to move the industry forward in ways that could set new standards for gathering deeper data on these attacks, as well as responding and intercepting them as they happen – just as EDR did a decade ago.
When I joined Proofpoint, I decided to leave my desk behind to carry a bag and get on the road. This gave me a first hand view of what challenges security teams were facing and what was necessary to help solve them. It put me at the cross section of cyber security and compliance, and we built teams and solutions that made it possible for organizations to achieve these milestones.
I then had an incredible opportunity to do it all over again with CrowdStrike, where I joined a very talented early team and witnessed the explosive growth in EDR. I see a parallel here with Push; nobody knew they needed EDR until new vendors brought it forward. At the time, the critics said ‘hey, we’re good with anti-virus, why would we need anything else?’ Of course, you’d be laughed out of the room for holding the same view today. Similarly, I believe we’ll see security products in the browser become equally indispensable.
Push can be a power tool for security teams
Getting access to browser telemetry in a smart, impactful way has been a tough nut to crack, but Push is bringing it front-and-center. It’s one of those things that makes you think: ‘why hasn’t this been done before?’ And from my initial conversations with Push customers you see the mirror of this: ‘could you imagine going back to life without it?’ Seeing and hearing just how customers love Push, and how they have developed a solution that is both secure and highly scalable, gives me confidence in what the future holds for our team.
And it’s not just about being in the browser, it’s what you do with it that is important. When you look at the backgrounds of the Push Security founders and their offensive security heritage, you can see how and why they are thinking about applying these new capabilities to drive SecOps teams and processes. It’s not just about box-ticking; it’s about genuinely hitting attackers where it hurts and making a meaningful difference to disrupting identity attacks – the #1 threat facing organizations today and responsible for nearly 75 percent of today’s breaches according to some industry estimates.
My career has always been about working with people, building strong teams, and creating environments where everyone feels they’re contributing to a powerful mission. Having learned from and worked with some of the best, I am proud of the culture I helped create at past companies, and I see the same potential at Push. It’s early days, and that’s exactly where I love to be.
Push Security really is on the cusp of something transformative, and I’m ready to jump in, bring my experience, and help lead the charge in this next chapter of identity-first security. If you would like to learn more about what we are doing at Push and how we can help your organization, connect with me on LinkedIn.
