cyber-resilience
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Andres Botero Built a Career Naming What Enterprise Software Does Next
From accounting automation to cyber resilience and autonomous pentesting, the Horizon3 CMO has made a career of translating technical products into market categories - then tying the language to revenue.
Semperis Built a $100 Million Business Around the Day After Your Worst Hack
Most security vendors promise to stop the intruder. Semperis made its name by asking the uglier question: if the keys to the company are already stolen, how fast can you safely turn the business back on?
Druva Bet the Backup Business on a Radical Idea: Delete the Hardware
The company began by selling the same kind of backup software its founders had left behind. Then it rebuilt the product, the pricing and the customer bargain around one stubborn premise: backup infrastructure should be Druva's problem.
Carol Carpenter Would Rather Build the Elevator
From Apple product lessons to a 50-person CEO crucible and Cohesity's post-Veritas integration, Carol Carpenter has spent three decades turning complicated technology into decisions people can actually make.
Ranga Rajagopalan Is Making Backup Sound Like a Business Strategy
After two decades inside the machinery of data protection, Druva's products-and-marketing chief has a deceptively plain brief: make recovery faster, make the technology quieter, and make the story intelligible.
Cassandra Arora Is Marketing the Moment When the Usual Channels Go Dark
After years turning advertising measurement into a business story, the Bellevue executive has moved to a harder brief: explaining how teams prepare for the day email and Slack cannot be trusted.
Paul Speciale Knows the Cloud Still Has a Basement
Before AI could answer a question, Paul Speciale spent decades thinking about where its data would live. His route from C++ developer to Scality's chief marketing officer is a lesson in making invisible infrastructure legible.
Halcyon Bet Your Security Stack Will Fail. Its Payoff Is a $1 Billion Ransomware Safety Net
Most security vendors promise to keep attackers out. Halcyon starts with the impolite assumption that every layer - including its own - can fail, then sells enterprises a second chance before ransomware turns downtime into leverage.
Scality Bet Against the Storage Tax - Now AI Is Making the Bet Look Timely
For 17 years, Scality has sold a stubborn idea: the valuable part of storage should be software, while the hardware underneath stays replaceable. Ransomware, sovereignty rules and GPU-hungry AI have made that once-technical argument a boardroom concern.
Mo Tahmasebi Built a Storage Career on the Things Nobody Notices - Until They Break
For four decades, Mo Tahmasebi has worked in the least glamorous corner of technology: keeping important data available, recoverable and out of trouble. His playbook is equal parts engineering, thrift and the confidence to close a deal before the coffee gets cold.
Anna Griffin Took the ‘ing’ Out of Marketing
After building brands across Apple, Sony, Juniper Networks, CA Technologies, Smartsheet and Intercom, Anna Griffin arrived at Commvault with a sharper brief: put the market before the machinery of marketing.
Everpure Wants to Turn the Storage Room Into an AI Control Room
Pure Storage changed its name, but the more consequential move is underneath the sign: a flash-storage pioneer is trying to make the data layer itself searchable, governed and ready for AI.
Kyndryl
Kyndryl inherited the systems big companies cannot switch off. Now the IBM spin-off is trying to turn that unglamorous responsibility into a modern consulting, cloud and AI business.
Commvault
Backup used to mean making a copy. Commvault is betting the harder, more valuable job is proving an entire business can come back clean - data, identities, applications and cloud infrastructure included.
Arcserve
Arcserve has spent more than four decades preparing for the day a company cannot open its own files. Its latest bet is that lean IT teams want one recovery system - with immutable storage, broader virtualization support and a little AI - more than another sprawling security console.
Blackpanda
Top-tier incident response, proactive readiness intelligence, and seamless access to cyber insurance - all in one platform. Delivered at less than 10% of the cost of traditional IR.
Fortisphere
Fortisphere is a Sydney-based AI transformation, operations and advisory firm founded in 2024 by former Commvault support leader Eugene Trautwein. It helps businesses turn AI ambition into practical results through advisory, benchmarking, workflow redesign, automation and fractional operating leadership, and runs an innovation lab that incubates its own SaaS products - starting with ResumeUplift.com, a tool that helps jobseekers beat AI resume filters.
Resilience
Resilience is a New York-based cyber insurance and risk-management company that pairs A-plus rated coverage with software that translates cyber risk into financial terms. Founded in 2016 by veterans of the U.S. military and intelligence communities (originally as Arceo.ai), it operates as a managing general agent for middle-market and large enterprises, combining risk quantification, a Risk Operations Center, and in-house claims and incident response to help organizations see, price, and reduce their most financially damaging cyber exposures.
When Breaches Cost Ten Million, ServiceNow and Accenture Bet on the Machines
On June 29, 2026, ServiceNow and Accenture announced a joint suite of AI-powered services designed to help enterprises migrate off legacy risk platforms and adopt agentic AI for cybersecurity and risk management. The offering pairs Accenture's managed security services with the ServiceNow AI Platform to deliver unified integrated risk management, third-party and operational technology risk management, proactive compliance, and an AI-powered migration path. The announcement responds to a threat landscape where U.S. data breach costs hit a record $10.22 million per incident in 2025 and AI is compressing the vulnerability-to-exploitation window from months to hours.
Mario Vitale
Mario Vitale is CEO of Resilience Cyber Insurance Solutions and President of Resilience, a cyber risk company that fuses cybersecurity, insurance and incident recovery into a single offering. A native New Yorker with more than 40 years in insurance, he previously ran Willis North America, Zurich's Global Corporate business and Aspen's global insurance operations before coming out of semi-retirement to help build Resilience alongside military-veteran founders Raj Shah and Vishaal Hariprasad.
NetApp
NetApp is a San Jose-based data infrastructure company that helps enterprises store, manage, protect and move their data across on-premises systems and every major public cloud. Founded in 1992 as Network Appliance, it built its business on the ONTAP data management operating system and today sells all-flash storage arrays, cloud storage services and software that increasingly targets AI and machine-learning workloads. A Fortune 500 company trading on the Nasdaq as NTAP, it reported record fiscal-2026 revenue of roughly $6.93 billion.
Cytactic
Cytactic is a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company building an AI-powered Cyber Incident Response Management (CIRM) platform that helps enterprises, boards and governments prepare for, simulate, manage and recover from cyber crises. Founded in 2022 by Dr. Nimrod Kozlovski and Menny Barzilay, it distills lessons from hundreds of real-world incidents into playbooks, decision-support tools, simulations and out-of-band communication for the moment an organization gets breached.
Maxxsure
Maxxsure is a Dallas-area cybersecurity company that turns cyber risk into a number executives can actually use. Its flagship product, the M-Score, quantifies an organization's cyber risk on a 0-to-1000 scale by collecting thousands of internal, external, and third-party variables and running them through AI and machine-learning models. Rather than handing boards another vulnerability report, Maxxsure frames risk in financial terms - 'down to the dollar' - so leadership can decide what to remediate, what to accept, and how much cyber insurance they actually need.
Clumio
Clumio is a cloud-native, serverless backup-as-a-service platform built for AWS workloads. It protects data in Amazon S3, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, EC2/EBS and Apache Iceberg lakehouses with air-gapped, immutable backups and near-instant recovery at exabyte scale. Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur Poojan Kumar, Clumio raised roughly $261M before being acquired by Commvault in 2024, where its technology now anchors AWS cyber-resilience offerings.
Upfort
Upfort (formerly Paladin Cyber) is a San Francisco-based platform that unifies turnkey cybersecurity with cyber insurance, making cyber risk easy to manage and simple to insure for small and medium-sized businesses. Its Upfort Shield suite layers AI-driven email and web protection, risk monitoring, and security awareness training, while its insurance arm partners with leading carriers to embed coverage for ransomware, wire fraud, and data breaches - sold through brokers and MGAs rather than direct.
Billy Gouveia
Billy Gouveia is the founder and CEO of Surefire Cyber, a Maryland-based incident response firm that helps cyber insurers, brokers, law firms, and organizations prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents like ransomware, business email compromise, and data theft. A former U.S. Army intelligence officer and Columbia and Georgetown graduate, he spent years in national security and enterprise risk consulting before incubating Surefire Cyber inside Forgepoint Capital and launching it in 2022 with $10 million in Series A funding. His pitch: combine automation with human expertise to deliver faster, calmer response when companies are under attack.
Surefire Cyber Inc.
Surefire Cyber is a purpose-built cyber incident response firm that helps insurers, brokers, law firms, and the organizations they cover move from response to resilience. Founded in 2022 by incident response veteran Billy Gouveia and incubated at Forgepoint Capital, the company pairs expert-led responders with an AI-enabled platform that unifies the insurance-driven response lifecycle - from forensic investigation and threat-actor negotiation through restoration, claims coordination, and cyber intelligence - to deliver faster outcomes with consistent quality and transparent, claims-ready reporting.
Cohesity
Cohesity is a Santa Clara-based data security and management company that helps enterprises back up, protect, secure, and recover their data across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. Founded in 2013 by Mohit Aron, it built a hyperscale platform to consolidate fragmented secondary data, and after merging with Veritas' enterprise data protection business in December 2024 it became the world's largest data protection software provider, serving roughly 13,000 organizations including most of the Fortune 500.
Rubrik
Rubrik is a Palo Alto-based cyber resilience company that helps organizations protect, recover, and secure their data across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments. Built on Zero Trust principles, its Rubrik Security Cloud platform combines immutable backups, ransomware detection, and rapid recovery so businesses can keep running through a cyberattack. Founded in 2014 and public on the NYSE since 2024, Rubrik crossed $1 billion in subscription ARR and is pushing into AI-era data security.
Bipul Sinha
Bipul Sinha is the CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Rubrik, the publicly traded data security company he built from a Bihar basement story into a $17B+ NYSE-listed cybersecurity platform. Before founding Rubrik in 2014, he spent nearly a decade as a venture capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners — backing companies like Nutanix and Hootsuite — and nine years at Oracle holding 30+ patents in distributed computing. An IIT Kharagpur and Wharton alumnus who grew up in poverty in Darbhanga, Bihar, Sinha turned a contrarian bet on backup-and-recovery software into the gold standard for enterprise data resilience in the ransomware era.