ThoughtSpot

Anthony Lee-Masis, CISO & Head of IT, ThoughtSpot:

I think the thing I like most about Vorlon, it simplifies the management of my entire SaaS ecosystem for my team. When my team finds things simpler to use, they often are more engaged. My director of security engineering, when he first looked at the platform within a day or two of it coming online, was just blown away by the rich context that it provided him.

I need to actively be engaged in managing my data or my customer's data flowing in and out of all these systems. There's just constant evolution of the ecosystem. So having the platform basically do all the level one triaging for us and then providing us the context from its findings just saves a tremendous amount of time to describe. The value of the Vorlon platform would be its ability for me or my team to very quickly be able to view our entire SaaS ecosystem in a single pane of glass and very easily know if there's something we need to do.

Vorlon's impact on our compliance efforts, right? Being an international company, you know, GDPR being one of the stricter ones out there. And so being able, you know, configure these alerts and just look at the Vorlon platform to see where the data is flowing and has the ability to alert when something unusual happens.

Well, we have to talk about AI. AI is everywhere. Everybody's doing something AI, and that's another third party risk that we have to manage. There was some foresight two, three years ago when the company was founded that third party risk management is a real thing and it's continuing to blow up.

I've had these promises over the years of buying security software. We'll be up and running in 30 days and, you know, four or five months later we're still tinkering. So I was cautiously optimistic and when it happened, like we gave the API key, we plugged it in and literally within the day the data's flowing in and we're getting value from the platform in 24 hours. That's pretty game changing.

And one really nice thing that the platform provides is not only, hey, here's the problem, but a recommendation of like, here's how you can resolve this. Everything gets shipped into Jira tickets, created the team, triages it, manages the issue, closes it. It's a pretty seamless integration that, you know, my team's not going into three different dashboards to manage four different tickets to resolve an issue.

CISOs, CIOs, you know, heads of data, I think could all benefit from the Vorlon platform. It solves a problem that has been around for years, if not maybe even a decade, that's had no graceful way to solve it.