John Brennan
Working on Something New
John Brennan
Working on Something New
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Seed Investor
2023 - 2023
Miggo is the first Application Detection and Response (ADR) platform on a mission to stop application breaches. 80% of all cyber incidents happen in the application layer, however too many are being slipped by existing tools due to a blindspot to the actual application behavior. By using in-application runtime context, Miggo maps how applications actually operate in runtime, identifies high-risk application flows, pinpoints the weak spots, and provides real-time detection and response capabilities in the application layer.
Seed Investor
2022 - 2023
Gutsy (www.gutsy.com) applies process mining to security to give enterprises a continuous, automatic, data-driven understanding of how all their tools and teams work together as part of processes.
Seed Investor
2022 - 2023
Security teams are lost in an identity jungle and burn time and resources by manually implementing identity security policies. Spera helps security teams take control of their identity sprawl, manage partially offboarded users and protect against stolen credentials and account takeovers. The company’s innovative platform provides visibility and contextualized insights into identities, permissions and actions, collected from identity providers and applications (SaaS, cloud providers and on-prem). Within a few weeks of the agentless deployment, organizations will minimize risk, improve business efficiency and ensure continuous identity compliance.
Seed Investor
2022 - 2023
Aim Security is the industry guide to secure GenAI adoption, equipping security leaders with the ability to drive business productivity while providing the right guardrails and ensuring proactive protection for all use cases across the entire organization, whether enterprise use or production use. Leading CISOs and security practitioners on their secure GenAI journey, Aim empowers enterprises to unlock the full potential of GenAI technology without compromising security.
Seed Investor
2022 - 2023
Opus is a singular, overarching Cloud Security Orchestration and Remediation platform, transforming the way remediation is conducted in the cloud. Opus empowers cloud security teams to see beyond alerts and threats and gain control, knowledge, and capabilities to resolve them. Opus integrates with existing security tools and orchestrates the entire remediation process across all stakeholders and organizational environments, based on tried-and-tested, easily-deployed guidelines and playbooks. Leveraging selective automation, Opus knows when sensitive issues demand human involvement and allows automation to resolve the rest, cutting down the time from detection to mitigation and conserving valuable resources. Finally, Opus provides security and business executives with immediate and tangible insights based on remediation metrics, with comprehensive visibility into the state of their risk. For more information on how to reimagine your remediation in the cloud, visit opus.security.
Seed Investor
2021 - 2023
The Eureka Cloud Data Security Posture Management platform enables security teams to successfully navigate the ongoing and often chaotic expansion and growth of cloud data. Eureka automatically discovers entire enterprise cloud data store footprints, data store content and security and compliance risk while continuously monitoring, improving and communicating cloud data security posture and compliance. With Eureka, enterprise users are free to store, access and leverage data with guardrails that don’t interfere with business agility and operations, while security stakeholders are empowered to implement change rapidly and non-intrusively.
Seed Investor
2021 - 2023
Valence is the first Business Application Mesh security company, focused on managing the risks from third-party integrations and securing app-to-app connectivity in the modern business environment. Valence’s platform applies zero trust principles to the Business Application Mesh, a complex network of applications interconnected by APIs and hyperautomation workflows, to deliver comprehensive visibility into the risk surface, reducing unauthorized access and preventing critical data loss. With Valence, organizations get a clear view of the Business Application Mesh and a clear path to control, govern and secure it. For more information, visit www.valencesecurity.com.
Seed Investor
2021 - 2023
Piiano pioneers privacy engineering infrastructure for cloud-native applications. Its PII protection and management platform redefines how enterprises build and approach privacy by resolving the inherent risks of sensitive data handling. Now enterprises can proactively manage and protect consumer data with the Piiano code scanner and PII Vault for streamlined PII visibility and segregation. Instantly gain the compliance, visibility and control your organization needs over this sensitive customer data.
Seed Investor
2021 - 2023
Grip brings the industry’s most comprehensive visibility across all enterprise SaaS applications--known or unknown for apps, users, and their basic interactions with extreme accuracy to minimize false positives. Armed with deep visibility, Grip secures all SaaS application access regardless of device or location as well as mapping data flows to enforce security policies and prevent data loss across the entire SaaS portfolio.
Seed Investor
2020 - 2023
Enso is the first Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) solution, helping security teams everywhere eliminate their AppSec chaos with application discovery, classification and management. Founded by application security experts, Enso easily deploys into enterprise environments to create an actionable, unified inventory of all application assets, their owners, security posture and associated risk. With Enso security, any AppSec team can build a simplified, agile and scalable application security program. For more information, visit enso.security.