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Q. What technology are you most looking forward to using more of? A. We are always looking at innovative
technologies and thinking about how to use them, vetting them carefully in our engineering team. We have a unique approach for automation in IR, and we use Jupyter notebooks with Spark engines for Big Data and machine learning. Spark supports batch and real-time processing, interactive querying, analytics to machine learning, and graph processing. Spark uses in-memory query execution to provide a fast and efficient big data processing solution. We use it all over the three main cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure). We are also developing a unique internal Python package to support our Forensic as Code process. The Python package includes the logic of the Incident Response and is developed on top of Spark. Another unique technology we have is the way we prepare and save the collected data of customers to allow future fast retrieval at low cost.
Q. What is your leadership style? A. I believe in focusing on communications – up, to the sides, and down. Strong communication is based on two principles: • Being authentic: be genuine, frank, respectful but direct. Respect other people’s time – speak your mind. • Listening: there is a huge difference between hearing and listening. Hearing is done through the ears while listening is through the mind and heart. I always strive to really understand the feelings, opinions, and perspectives of the other person. 16
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Plans for the future We are a startup, so we have many plans. I’m excited about our growing team and increasing our automation capabilities to enable continuous, proactive breach investigation. We’re also building a new readiness dashboard for customers to easily understand where they stand and how they can improve.
