Identity Crisis: The Biggest Prize in Security

My first job out of college was at Atlassian, where I led a product team focused on identity security & visibility. I met dozens of CIOs, IT admins, and CISOs who were focused on right-sizing permissions, preventing data exfiltration in and out of their collaboration tools, and integration posture between the Atlassian suite and everything else. The north star was to hopefully transition to a pro-active threat detection model from the classic post-hoc log review process. So naturally, these companies bought dozens of other security tools to get visibility into these and other surfaces areas, but that introduced a second order problem: reconciling the often overwhelming and sometimes conflicting event streams that every security product generates. It became clearer after I became a security & AI investor and met 40+ companies in the space that identity is the missing puzzle piece. It’s an area that hundreds of companies have tried to solve over time, but have fallen short. This piece tr

My first job out of college was at Atlassian, where I led a product team focused on identity security & visibility. I met dozens of CIOs, IT admins, and CISOs who were focused on right-sizing permissions, preventing data exfiltration in and out of their collaboration tools, and integration posture between the Atlassian suite and everything else. The north star was to hopefully transition to a pro-active threat detection model from the classic post-hoc log review process. So naturally, these companies bought dozens of other security tools to get visibility into these and other surfaces areas, b