The Evolution of Modern Security Operations
Today’s security landscape is evolving faster than ever, demanding more than traditional detection and response capabilities. CISOs face mounting challenges, including fragmented security data and tooling, incomplete risk visibility, and increasingly sophisticated threats that evolve faster than human analysts can track.
The acquisition of Dassana by Deepwatch represents a strategic response to these challenges, combining AI-powered risk exposure management with comprehensive threat intelligence to deliver a more proactive security approach. By leveraging continuous risk assessment and threat exposure analysis, the platform helps organizations understand and reduce their attack surface before threats materialize. This evolutionary leap in security operations comes at a crucial time, as organizations struggle to maintain comprehensive security visibility while managing an ever-expanding digital footprint and increasingly complex threat landscape.
Delivering Enhanced Value Through Unified Security Intelligence
The integration of Dassana’s technology with the Deepwatch AI+Human cyber resilience platform creates immediate and lasting value for security teams in several powerful ways:
- The AI-powered risk exposure engine continuously analyzes the attack surface, providing real-time visibility into potential vulnerabilities and exposure points across the organization. This proactive approach helps security teams identify and remediate risks before they can be exploited, shifting security operations from reactive to preventive.
- Enhanced risk intelligence capabilities quantify and prioritize exposures based on their potential business criticality and impact. The platform continuously assesses the organization’s security posture against emerging threats and vulnerabilities discovered by Deepwatch market-leading threat intelligence, providing actionable insights for risk reduction. This enables security teams to focus resources on the most critical exposures first, maximizing the efficiency of security investments.
- The combined platform automates the entire risk management lifecycle, from exposure discovery through remediation validation. Analytics from the integrated platform continuously monitor for new attack vectors and changing risk patterns, ensuring that security teams stay ahead of evolving threats. This comprehensive approach helps organizations maintain a strong security posture while reducing the manual effort required for risk assessment and management.
Why CISOs Should Take Notice
For CISOs, the Deepwatch acquisition of Dassana addresses several pressing challenges that have long plagued security operations.
First, it revolutionizes risk management by continuously discovering, assessing, and prioritizing security exposures. This proactive approach enables security teams to stay ahead of threats rather than react to incidents after they occur. Dassana’s seamless integration from various telemetry sources, such as CNAPP, VM, EDR, AppSec, and others, maximizes existing security investments, simplifies data ingestion, and reduces operational overhead. Integrations allow security teams to maintain a strong posture even as their attack surface evolves.
Second, the platform enhances security insights with critical business context, enabling CISOs to communicate risk and mitigation strategies to board members and executive leadership in clear, business-centric terms. Dassana’s automatic data normalization eliminates manual data formatting, providing faster, more accurate analysis. Customizable dashboards and SQL-powered real-time data access ensure that CISOs have clear visibility into security posture and compliance while demonstrating how exposure reduction directly impacts business risk—strengthening the case for security investments.
Finally, the combined Deepwatch-Dassana solution represents the next evolution of MDR, where AI-powered insights drive proactive risk management and enhanced threat response. By continuously analyzing and reducing the attack surface, organizations can prevent many threats before they become incidents. With same-day proof of concept, rapid deployment, and real-time alerts, security teams can optimize resources, improve decision-making, and maintain robust detection and response capabilities—delivering the comprehensive, unified security operations CISOs need in today’s complex threat landscape.
With over a decade and a half of real-world experience as an Information Security and Compliance Subject Matter Expert, Chad has a proven track record of transforming and maturing companies’ security postures. As a key member of the Deepwatch Security Team, he enables proactive Security, Compliance, and Privacy improvements. Chad’s leadership helps the team anticipate future challenges and scales the programs effectively. He’s dedicated to building a strong foundation for Deepwatch security initiatives.
As Chief Product Officer at Deepwatch, Anand Ramanathan leads product vision and execution. Anand is a seasoned technology executive with over 20 years of experience in senior product and GTM leadership roles at leading companies including McAfee, Proofpoint, and Cisco. He has a proven track record of developing disruptive product strategy and scaling emerging companies, driving high double-digit growth at Skyhigh and Proofpoint.
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