Sadowski brings more than 30 years of industry knowledge and experience to the new role
Exabeam, the Smarter SIEM™ company, announced the appointment of industry veteran and former Gartner analyst Gorka Sadowski to chief strategy officer. Exabeam has grown rapidly over the past six years as it has executed on its vision for enhancing security teams with analytics and automation. As the types of attacks and number of attackers proliferate, strategic clarity becomes increasingly important to meet future demands, both for Exabeam and its customers. Sadowski’s guidance will be especially important at a time when so many security organizations are under-staffed and feeling overwhelmed by the number of security events they have to investigate.
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Sadowski’s guidance will be especially important at a time when so many security organizations are under-staffed and feeling overwhelmed by the number of security events they have to investigate.
In his role, Sadowski will be responsible for developing, executing and sustaining corporate strategic initiatives. He will also serve as a sounding board for the Exabeam product roadmap and vision to drive growth. Reporting directly to CEO Nir Polak, he’ll work with leaders across the organization on cross-functional initiatives and educate prospective customers, partners, analysts and media on the value of analytics and automation in a security program.
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Throughout Sadowski’s 30-year cybersecurity career, he has held roles spanning marketing, business development, strategy and sales and gained a deep understanding of the trends and risks of the industry. Before joining the Exabeam team, he served as a senior director and analyst at Gartner, focused on security operations for IT leaders. At the analyst firm, he was responsible for consulting with clients and working with a wide variety of security vendors to drive coverage for SIEM, SOC futures and trends, and managed detection and response (MDR). He authored and co-authored Gartner’s Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities research on SIEM.
Prior to joining Gartner, Sadowski also served as the director of business development at Splunk, where he was responsible for building the security ecosystem from strategy to execution. He was also responsible for creating and implementing Splunk’s Partner Pavilion at Splunk .conf, where he was first introduced to Exabeam. At this event, he saw Exabeam emerge as the most promising organization in the security analytics space. Before his tenure at Splunk, he established presence for LogLogic in Southern Europe, ran security go-to-market activities, including security consulting, delivery and service packaging, for Unisys in France, and launched the first partner-led intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) in the industry as head of NetScreen’s emerging technology efforts.
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