Security & Fraud
Security and Fraud Management: Software or Services?
About This Talk
Staffing shortages, increased complexity, and rising costs are driving customers to seek managed services from security and fraud prevention vendors to accompany their product offerings. This panel will discuss how vendors should evolve their business models, what this means for valuations, where the transformational opportunities exist, and pitfalls to avoid.
Speakers
Rohit Ghai
President and CEO
RSA Security
RSA Security
Rohit Ghai is Group Chief Executive Officer of RSA, a leader in cybersecurity and risk management solutions that provides organizations with technology to address challenges across security, risk management and fraud prevention in the digital era. In addition to serving as CEO for SecurID and NetWitness businesses, Ghai provides oversight to the Archer, Outseer and RSA Conference businesses as member of the board of directors for RSA. He regularly advises global customers on their digital and security transformation initiatives and is often cited in broadcast and print media on topics like data privacy, content management, information governance, digital risk and cybersecurity.
Previously, he served as President and chief executive of Dell EMC’s Enterprise Content Division (Documentum), where he was instrumental in setting a compelling vision, transforming go-to-market and revitalizing the portfolio for the digital era through strategic partnerships and acquisitions. Ghai has experience in both startup and big company settings, with expertise in digital transformation in highly regulated markets, and knowledge across software, systems and security. He joined Dell EMC from Symantec, where he held a variety of senior product and general management roles. Previously, he was at Computer Associates (CA) in a number of senior management roles. Ghai joined CA through the acquisition of Cheyenne Software, a startup in the backup and data protection space. Rohit holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of South Carolina and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee.
Previously, he served as President and chief executive of Dell EMC’s Enterprise Content Division (Documentum), where he was instrumental in setting a compelling vision, transforming go-to-market and revitalizing the portfolio for the digital era through strategic partnerships and acquisitions. Ghai has experience in both startup and big company settings, with expertise in digital transformation in highly regulated markets, and knowledge across software, systems and security. He joined Dell EMC from Symantec, where he held a variety of senior product and general management roles. Previously, he was at Computer Associates (CA) in a number of senior management roles. Ghai joined CA through the acquisition of Cheyenne Software, a startup in the backup and data protection space. Rohit holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of South Carolina and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee.
Vivek Mehra
Partner Emeritus
August Capital
August Capital
Vivek Mehra is a Partner Emeritus at August Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in innovative technology companies. Previously Vivek was General Partner till 2018. Vivek's areas of interest include data center technologies, infrastructure software, SaaS, networking, security, and storage. Prior to joining August Capital, Vivek co-founded Cobalt Networks in 1996.
Shreyas has been an experienced technical product leader in Trust & Safety over the last 12+ years and currently leads safety products for LinkedIn. He leads a team of product managers focused on building AI/ML-based defenses and user experiences that serve over 800 million users of LinkedIn. He is passionate about keeping people safe online from fake identities, fraud, scams, malware, phishing, obscene & pornographic content, and confirmed misinformation. Before LinkedIn, he held engineering and product manager roles at Yahoo and Box.
Reed Taussig (Moderator)
Former CEO
Outseer LLC
Outseer LLC
Reed began his career in tech after graduating college in 1977. Reed has had extensive executive management experience across the systems software, enterprise application software and fraud and security technology sectors.
Dan Welch
SVP
Services Outseer
Services Outseer
Award winning, consistently successful Senior Business Executive with record of creating new profitable business ventures. Inspirational leader with a reputation for hard work and fair play. Interdisciplinary skill set combined with multi-national experience.