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COMING SOON:
Rishi Bhargava
COMING SOON:
Rishi Bhargava
Rishi Bhargava is a co-founder at Descope, a drag & drop external IAM platform. In a career spanning over 20 years, Rishi has run product, strategy, go-to-market, and engineering for category-creating cybersecurity startups and large enterprises. Before Descope, Rishi served as VP of Product Strategy at Palo Alto Networks which he joined via the acquisition of Demisto. Rishi was a co-founder at Demisto where, under his stewardship, the company created and later led a new “security orchestration” category within 3 years before being acquired. Prior to Demisto, Rishi was VP and GM of the Datacenter Group at Intel Security and launched multiple products at McAfee (acquired by Intel).
Rishi is passionate about technology and serves as an active investor and advisor to multiple startups in Silicon Valley and India, some of which have already seen successful exits.
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What you’ll learn
AI and innovation
Modern-day technology can add unnecessary risk or when thoughtfully designed, empower your security and compliance teams.
Trending topics
Gain understanding and insight into industry news, real-world examples, and recent trends.
Detection and response management
Cyber attacks, threats, and breaches are, unfortunately, more and more common. Ensuring your infrastructure and systems are safe is essential.
Regulatory updates
Data protection
Best practices for safeguarding sensitive information from loss, damage, or corruption ensuring backup, recovery, and proper governance.
Managed security and compliance solutions
Understanding the risks to your unique business and the products and services available to help.
About your host
Justin Beals is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and governance who is passionate about making arcane cybersecurity standards plain and simple to achieve. He founded Strike Graph in 2020 to eliminate confusion surrounding cybersecurity audit and certification processes by offering an innovative, right-sized solution at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional methods.
Now, as Strike Graph CEO, Justin drives strategic innovation within the company. Based in Seattle, he previously served as the CTO of NextStep and Koru, which won the 2018 Most Impactful Startup award from Wharton People Analytics.
Justin is a board member for the Ada Developers Academy, VALID8 Financial, and Edify Software Consulting. He is the creator of the patented Training, Tracking & Placement System and the author of “Aligning curriculum and evidencing learning effectiveness using semantic mapping of learning assets,” which was published in the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJet). Justin earned a BA from Fort Lewis College.
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