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Dan Hubbard

Dan Hubbard

Chief Executive Officer
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Dan Hubbard is CEO at Lacework, driving innovation and expanding the company’s security strategy for public and private clouds. A pioneering force in Internet security, Dan’s expertise spans from reputation and advanced classification systems to large-scale security data mining, and cloud security. Prior to Lacework, Dan was CTO at OpenDNS, helped deliver the world’s largest cloud security network that led to the $600M acquisition by Cisco. Prior to OpenDNS, Dan was CTO at Websense, led R&D, launched the Websense Security Labs, and was instrumental in the company’s success from early days through successful IPO. Dan owns several patents in the areas of data classification and cloud security and is a frequent speaker at security conferences globally.

Lacework Priorities: Our Commitment to Security and Safety
Mar 16, 2020

Lacework Priorities: Continued Safety and Security – A Commitment to our Customers and Employees

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
Safety and security for us are not just the outcomes of your cloud infrastructure, it’s also the safety and well-being of our employees and our customer’s families and well-being. This isn’t something new but certainly, during this incredible time of uncertainty and doubt, I felt that it’s important to provide some certainty and trust of […]

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Secure DevOps with Datadog and Lacework
Nov 18, 2019

Secure DevOps with Datadog and Lacework

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
Last month I blogged about the need for a New Generation of Security and highlighted two critical shifts: the shift from conflict to collaboration and the shift from centralized to distributed. And today we are excited to announce that we have partnered with Datadog to enable our joint customers to level up their security and […]

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time-for-new-generation-security
Sep 12, 2019

It’s Time for a New Generation of Security

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
Today we announced a new series of funding from an incredible group of investors and entrepreneurs who have built companies like Snowflake Computing and Pure Storage from the ground up. Like both Snowflake and Pure, we have built a new modern platform that is purpose fit for a new IT trend, Security for the Cloud and […]

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Lacework Shifts Left
Jun 20, 2019

The Shift is On: Why Lacework is Extending Security From Run Time to Build Time

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
Software Requirements: FAST. GOOD. CHEAP. Choose any two… When I started my career as an engineer, that was a joke we used to kick around. That was at a time when development projects ran into multiple quarters and often relied on layers of project managers to keep other projects managers honest, so those project managers […]

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Lacework: Leading the Way From Product to Platforms
Jun 6, 2019

Lacework: Leading the Way From Product to Platforms

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
This has been a busy, and quite humbling week for me as I have accepted the position as CEO of Lacework. I already feel fortunate to work with this extraordinarily talented and energetic team, but now I’ll have the opportunity to help them execute a strategy to establish Lacework as the most innovative, customer-focused security […]

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Oct 18, 2018

Redis Compromise: Lacework Detection

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
Recently we published a blog on the internals of a Redis compromise with an infection on one of our external-facing honeypots and this is a follow up which demonstrates how the Lacework service would help identify the attack at a variety of stages in the attacker life-cycle. As I outlined in a previous blog about the […]

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Jun 18, 2018

Containers At-Risk: A Review of 21,000 Cloud Environments

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
Securing your workloads in public clouds requires a different approach than that used for traditional data centers. The need to operate security at cloud speed, respond to continuous change, adapt at scale, and operate with a new operating model all require a dramatic shift in the type of container security solution required by today’s operation. […]

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Timing Security Market Transitions
May 19, 2018

Timing Security Market Transitions

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
On the heels of the ZScaler IPO, the Phantom Cyber, and Evident.IO acquisitions, and the DUO unicorn round, I thought I would share some of my personal thoughts around market transitions in security. And, in particular how it pertains to cloud. Note: This is not a piece about why security startups fail. And, although missing a […]

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May 16, 2018

Refocus on What Matters: Risks vs Threats

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
After visiting the RSA Conference (yes I walked the infamous show floor) I decided to zoom out on what I saw and think about where we are spending our time, resources, and investments as an industry. The one thing that came to me is that we certainly spend a lot of time talking about threats. […]

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Mar 6, 2018

Driving Towards Least Privilege in AWS: A Baker’s Dozen 

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
I have learned a lot in the past few years about running and securing public cloud infrastructure and thought I would share some areas that I believe are important. This SlideShare presentation is meant to be a self-read narrative of 13 things to think about AWS security and the move towards least privileged systems. Enjoy, […]

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Jan 23, 2018

Visibility: A Technical Chauffeur of Data, Part III

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
This is part 3 of 4 in a blog series on key trends in securing the public cloud. Gaining visibility into the operational data you need is often underestimated when organizations deploy to the public cloud. It’s not like you can simply deploy a layer 2 span port and see all traffic in a single […]

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Together We Create
Dec 14, 2017

Bridging the Gap Between Security and DevOps, Part I

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
As we head into the New Year I’d like to share some trends I am noticing in the market around securing public clouds and decided to start a four-part series around it. Here in the Bay Area, we have several bridges that connect us. From the more well-known Golden Gate and Bay bridges to the lesser […]

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Dec 1, 2017

AWS re:Invent Recap: Is This the end of the Enterprise Security Market?

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
I just returned from AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas and thought I would share my thoughts on the conference and, as you will see, and much to my excitement, security was the main topic in many ways. Incredible Momentum As Andy Jassy pointed outlined in his keynote, AWS continues to have incredible momentum with greater […]

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Nov 22, 2017

The Breach: You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
As I am sure you have read in the news, an AWS account was allegedly used as a means to access and exfiltrate data. Although I am not sure we will find out the real details, it looks like a relatively straightforward breach. On the surface it appears as though there was no malware installed, […]

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Nov 14, 2017

Why I joined Lacework: the opportunity to define a better approach to Securing the Cloud

by Dan Hubbard - Chief Executive Officer
Over the last two years I have spent a tremendous amount of time talking to top security executives, operators, and responders about their top concerns and projects they are looking to tackle. What I heard consistently is that securing the public cloud infrastructure was high, if not number one, on their list. For cloud-native companies, […]

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