– USA, CA – Veza, the identity security company, today announced the appointment of Phil Venables to its Board of Directors.
“Phil is the most respected cybersecurity leader in the world and we are truly honored to welcome Phil Venables to the Veza Board. Phil will be instrumental in guiding our product innovations and roadmap. We are humbled to have Phil join us in building an iconic identity technology company,” said Chairman, Co-Founder and CEO, Tarun Thakur.
About Phil Venables
Phil Venables has more than 35 years of experience working in engineering, management, and board-level advisory roles, including for The White House. Before joining a large global technology company as CISO, Venables was a Partner at Goldman Sachs. He spent two decades in various risk and cybersecurity leadership positions, particularly as their first CISO, a role he held for 17 years. He has been CISO for other multiple large banking companies like Standard Chartered Bank and Deutsche Bank. He is on the board of directors at HackerOne, Interos, and New York University, and he serves in advisory roles for The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and NIST.
“Every enterprise needs a privilege management program, but traditional tools make it hard to see who has access to what data and how they got it,” said Phil Venables. “Veza has cracked the code on authorization with an innovative architecture that enables continuous monitoring and remediation across the entire modern enterprise. I look forward to supporting Tarun, working closely with the Board and the Veza leadership team as the company invests in this significant market opportunity.”
About Veza
Veza is the identity security company. Identity and security teams use Veza to secure identity access across SaaS apps, on-prem apps, data systems, and cloud infrastructure. Veza solves the blind spots of traditional identity tools of IGA and PAM with its unique ability to ingest and organize permissions metadata in the Veza Authorization Graph. Global enterprises like Blackstone, Wynn Resorts, and Expedia trust Veza to visualize access permissions, monitor permissions activity, automate access reviews, and remediate privilege violations. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures (GV), Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures.
Source: https://www.veza.com/
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