Doug Merritt was CEO of Splunk from 2015 to 2021 and led the company's transition from an on-premises software company to a cloud-based service provider. After two years in the venture capital and board advisory space, Merritt joined multi-cloud networking company Aviatrix as CEO in 2023. That company introduced its first security product, a distributed firewall for Kubernetes, in May, and rolled out a managed version of its multi-cloud network and security control plane this week.
Merritt identifies two ways generative AI is shifting multi-cloud security: first, data gravity and the costs of generative AI mean cloud computing is becoming increasingly distributed, often including hybrid and edge environments, which he says calls for a new approach to centralized network management. Secondly, Merritt said he's a believer that generative AI will help network and SecOps pros keep pace with these changes – and in the coming weeks, Aviatrix will roll out the first of its own GenAI-powered features for security incident management and event reduction.
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