Venkat Kotla has joined Securonix, Inc., a pioneer in Unified Defence SIEM, as Chief Technology Officer.
To meet the increasing demand for the company’s Unified Defence SIEM platform, Kotla’s responsibilities in this position include managing and growing the engineering function of the business and cultivating alliances with top technology companies.
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“I am thrilled to have Venkat join our executive leadership team,” said Nayaki Nayyar, Chief Executive Officer, Securonix. “As we continue to evolve and move into our next phase of growth, it is critical for our platform to scale with enterprise-grade reliability and meet the growing needs of modern enterprises charged with defending an expanding threat landscape. Venkat’s deep experience with advanced technologies, including AI, successfully expanding technology partnerships and streamlining processes across multiple stakeholders will be invaluable in driving product development that protects our customers from internal and external threats.”
Kotla has led technical innovation at global organisations for over 25 years at world-class enterprise software firms. His last job was Vice President and Head of Engineering for Economy BU at Atlassian, a leader in Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Kotla helped the Economy line of business develop to over $500 million ARR, making multinational organisations more agile, innovative, and aligned with the marketplace, ecosystem, partnerships, distribution, and commerce billing platform.
“I’m excited to join a team that is hyper focused on product development and deeply committed to innovation,” said Kotla. “SIEM is the backbone of cybersecurity defenses, and Securonix has long been the industry’s premier solution provider. I look forward to working with the leadership team to incorporate advanced technologies into the platform and aggressively develop new partnerships with the world’s leading technology providers.”
Kotla led senior engineering at Google for 14 years before joining Atlassian. He was Senior Director of Engineering for Google Assistant and Google Looker, a multi-cloud corporate SaaS for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics, for almost three years.
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To defend modern companies against advanced attacks in complicated hybrid environments, Securonix was designed. Securonix was recognised a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) for the fourth year in a row and a Customers’ Choice in the 2023 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’. The business created the first Unified Defence SIEM with 365 days of “Hot” searchable data and integrated ChatGPT to give Securonix Investigate generative AI capabilities to reduce incident reaction time.
About Securonix
Leading the way in SIEM evolution for today’s data-driven, hybrid cloud businesses is Securonix. The first and only content-driven threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) system, developed with a highly scalable data cloud and a unified experience from the analyst to the CISO, is offered to enterprises by Securonix Unified Defence SIEM. Organisations may expand their security operations and stay up to date with the latest threats thanks to this creative cloud-native solution.
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