CEO Today Business Women of the Year Awards

www.ceotodaymagazine.com 64 CEO Today Business Women of the Year Awards 2019 USA CAROLYN CRANDALL Chief Deception Officer and CMO Attivo Networks ABOUT CAROLYN CRANDALL Carolyn Crandall has served as the Chief Deception Officer and CMO of Attivo Networks since 2015 and has over 30 years of experience building emerging technology markets. She has a demonstrated track record of successfully taking companies from pre- IPO through tomulti-billion-dollar sales and has held leadership positions at Cisco, Juniper Networks, Nimble Storage, Riverbed, and Seagate(i365). As Chief Deception Officer at Attivo Networks, she regularly speaks on security innovation at CISO forums and other industry events. She has been a guest on Fox News, presented at several conferences including CSO50, ISSA International, FS and H-ISAC, and has hosted multiple technology education webinars. Crandall was inducted into the Hall of Femme by DMN, recognized as a Business Woman of the Year by CEO Today for 2 years in a row, is a Reboot Leadership Honoree, and a Power 100 Woman of the Channel by CRN for 9 years. Crandall joined Attivo Networks based upon the company’s vision of modernizing cybersecurity defenses with deception technology. Deception has been used for millennia in military, sports, and gambling to outsmart adversaries and Attivo has now successfully brought this concept to cybersecurity in an effort to outmaneuver and derail the attacks of cyber criminals. This technology is actively being adopted across all major industries as a high-fidelity threat detection and visibility control that is designed to reduce attacker dwell time (time an attacker remains undetected) and to gather adversary intelligence that can be critical for understanding the attack, accelerating incident response, and fortifying defenses. FIRM PROFILE Traditional cybersecurity is centered on preventative defenses that begin as a reaction to an event. The Attivo Networks approach is centered on proactively detecting and derailing threats early so that an attacker cannot establish a foothold or complete their mission. With deception, decoy landmines and lures are placed so the attacker can no longer trust that they know real from fake and will make mistakes, be forced to spend more time, start over, or find an easier target. The use of deception also facilitates the gathering of adversary intelligence so that defenders can quickly understand the attack, confidently shut it down, and prevent a similar recurrence. The ability to gather real-time intelligence is a unique benefit of deception and is extremely valuable for gaining the upper-hand against attackers. Visibility and detection benefits are achieved by deploying a deception fabric across the network. This can include user networks, cloud, datacenters, remote offices, specialized infrastructure, IoT, medical IoT, ICS-SCADA, and POS environments. The Attivo ThreatDefend™ platform works by providing comprehensive coverage designed to entice in-network attackers into engaging with highly authentic credentials, decoys, applications, and data deceptions that are designed to blend in with the production environment. Defenders gain high-fidelity alerts that are substantiated by the environment’s attack analysis, forensics, and collection of adversary intelligence. This provides valuable insight into attacker intent and threat intelligence required for blocking, isolation, threat hunting, and return adversary mitigation. Extensive native integrations facilitate information sharing with other security controls and the ability to accelerate incident response and remediation. Deployment and ongoing operations are made simple through the use of machine-learning, while standard and advanced management screens facilitate usability for basic and mature security operations. Attivo Networks has won over 85 awards for technology innovation and leadership. Early and accurate detection of external and insider threats remains a top priority for organizations. Attivo is seeing adoption soar as small and large organizations are making deception a de facto security control for exposing attackers quickly, stopping attacks, and effectively closing security gaps across current and emerging attack surfaces. www.attivonetworks.com