Alex Eckelberry

KnowBe4 is the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform that helps you manage the ongoing problem of social engineering. The KnowBe4 platform is user-friendly and intuitive, and powerful. It was built to scale for busy IT pros that have 16 other fires to put out. Our goal was to design a full-featured, yet easy-to-use platform. Customers with businesses of all sizes can get the KnowBe4 platform deployed into production at least twice as fast as our competitors. Our Customer Success team gets you going in no time, without the need for consulting hours.

Malwarebytes is reimagining security to safeguard devices, data, and people, no matter their location, lifestyle or means. A global leader in online protection, its suite of award-winning cybersecurity, privacy and identity solutions empower millions of people worldwide to enjoy their digital lives, free from threats and scams. Built and beloved by experts, Malwarebytes pairs a world-class team of threat researchers with proprietary AI-powered processes to supercharge and refine detections, providing unmatched protection against both known and unknown threats. Living up to its legacy, Malwarebytes continues to offer free tools that have long served as a first line of defense against malware and scams with new options for identity protection and data removal. Malwarebytes, powerful all-in-one digital protection that’s always by your side.

StopBadware is a nonprofit anti-malware organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We make the Web safer through the prevention, mitigation, and remediation of badware websites. Our work protects people and organizations from becoming victims of viruses, spyware, scareware, and other badware. StopBadware started as a project of the renowned Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and we spun off as an independent nonprofit organization in 2010. Corporate partners include Google, Mozilla, Verizon, Qualys, Verisign, and Yandex. For more information, see www.stopbadware.org.

We are very excited to announce that Microsoft has acquired BlueStripe Software We’ve worked with Microsoft for years – they’ve been a great customer, a technology supporter, and IT management partner. Going forward, you will see BlueStripe’s technology play an even more important role as new data center and cloud solutions come to market. We are thrilled with the opportunity to be part of the next wave of IT innovation. When we founded BlueStripe Software, our goal was to give IT Operations teams a way to discover, map, and monitor their complex application infrastructure. The need for real-time accurate visibility into the structure and performance of applications has increased greatly, requiring visibility across the Data Center and in the Cloud. Our customers needed to manage increasingly complex environments incorporating different operating systems, multiple locations, all while increasing their use of the Cloud. We are proud to have delivered the best Hybrid Cloud management solution in the industry incorporating Discovery, Mapping, and Monitoring together in one tool. Lastly, we want to thank the customers, partners, and supporters who have helped us build this great company. To learn more from Microsoft about the acquisition, visit the Microsoft blog: http://blogs.microsoft.com/?p=53751.

El Toro Capital Management is a Los Angeles-based private equity firm focused on making growth buyout and growth equity investments in emerging growth sectors, including Cybersecurity, SaaS, Digital Media, Business Services, Outsourced Services and Professional Services. El Toro Capital provides deep domain knowledge and highly experienced operating professionals to assist its portfolio companies in accelerating company growth, increasing profitability and maximizing shareholder value. Our objective is to be the most trusted private equity partner through our core values of integrity, teamwork, and desire to win at the highest level.

Prevasio, an AlgoSec company, helps organizations of all sizes protect their cloud-native applications across containers and all other cloud assets. Prevasio’s agentless cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) provides increased visibility into security and compliance gaps, enabling the cloud operations and security teams to prioritize risks and ensure compliance with internet security benchmarks. Acquired by AlgoSec in 2022, Prevasio combines cloud-native security with SRI International’s proprietary AI capabilities and AlgoSec’s expertise in securing 1,800 of the world’s most complex organizations.  

Global cybersecurity leader, AlgoSec, empowers organizations to secure application connectivity and cloud-native applications throughout their multi-cloud and hybrid network. Trusted by more than 1,800 of the world’s leading organizations, AlgoSec’s unique application-centric approach enables the acceleration of digital transformation projects, helps prevent business application downtime, and substantially reduces manual work and exposure to security risks. AlgoSec’s policy management and CNAPP platforms provide a single source for visibility into security and compliance issues within cloud-native applications as well as across the hybrid network environment, to ensure ongoing adherence to internet security standards, industry, and internal regulations.

KnowBe4 is the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform that helps you manage the ongoing problem of social engineering. The KnowBe4 platform is user-friendly and intuitive, and powerful. It was built to scale for busy IT pros that have 16 other fires to put out. Our goal was to design a full-featured, yet easy-to-use platform. Customers with businesses of all sizes can get the KnowBe4 platform deployed into production at least twice as fast as our competitors. Our Customer Success team gets you going in no time, without the need for consulting hours.