>>live from Atlanta, Georgia. It's the Q covering Answerable Fest 2019. Brought to you by Red Hat. >>Okay, welcome back. Everyone is the live Cube coverage for two days here in Atlanta, Georgia for instable fest. I'm John Furrier, My Coast stupid in with the Cube. Ted Julian, vice president, product management, formerly CEO. Resilient now part of an IBM company. Back to doing V P of product management. Again, you don't really ask. Welcome to welcome back to the Cube. Good to see you. It's a >>pleasure to be here. Thanks. >>So I see product management. Holistic thinking is the big discussion here. The thing that's coming out of this event is configuration management, a siloed point activity now, more of a platform. You're seeing more of a systems architecture thinking going into some of these platform discussion. Security certainly has been there. They're here now. A lot of pressure, the out of things built in with security but maintaining the onslaught of threats and landscape changes going on. That's what you do. >>It's rough out there. >>What what's going on? What are the key trends that customers should be aware of when thinking about configurations? Because automation can help. Yeah, maybe all use cases, but >>way need to do something and because customers definitely need help. The alerts that they're dealing with them both in the volume and the severity is like nothing we've ever seen before. At the same time we're talking about earlier, right, the regulatory impact also really big difference just in the last two or three years. Huge skills, gap shortage also a critical problem. People can't find enough people to do this work. That's very difficult to keep so clearly we need to do something different. And there's no doubt that orchestration and automation and configuration management, as a component of that is we've barely scratched the surface of the potential there. To help solve some of >>the open source is, is helping a lot of people now. Seeing the light first was cloud, the skeptics said. There's no security and cloud now. There is open source securities there, but still, proprietary systems have security. But the mayor may not be talented. Your point, so automation is an opportunity. How are companies dealing with the mishmash or the multi platform solutions that are out there >>at your right to ask the question it is driving, um, the problem in a big way. Years ago we tried this security automation within security, like in the early days of firewalls and the Web and stuff like that, and it didn't go well. Unintended consequences. But think two things have changed. The environments changed, which has raised the stakes for the need to be able to do this stuff to a whole different level. But at the same time, the technology matured enormously. There's been multiple platforms shifts since then, and so security teams. They're both kind of desperate for a better solution, but also better options now than they had before. And so it's for this reason that we're starting to see people adopt orchestration and automation now in a way that we didn't see in the last time around. >>But the thing is that we were hearing here is that people are trying to automate the same things and some of these holes in the infrastructure, whether it's an S three bucket, this is basic stuff. This is not rocket science. Yeah, so on these known use cases, this makes total sense that a playbook or automation could help kind of feel those holes. >>We talk about it as a journey, you know? And I don't think any two organizations journey is the same, nor does it really even need to be the same. So we've seen some customers, for example, take the approach of what's a high volume type of incident that we deal with. And if we could apply orchestration and automation, they were gonna get great our eye right? We see 4000 phishing attacks every month or what have you. And that's certainly one way to do it. Yeah, but those other times with one, >>though, I have to go >>into that point. There's other people that are like, you know, gathering forensics on an end point right now. Incredibly manual process. We need to be able to do that globally. Do we do it every day? No, we don't. But if we could automate that and get those results back in more like a couple hours, as opposed to two days, because the guy we need in Sweden is out of the office or whatever, that could mean the difference between ah, low level incident were able to contain and something that goes global. And so that's the use case we wanna chase, so I don't think there's a right or wrong answer. >>Depends on the environment. Ah, whole host of the whole thing about security is no general purpose software anymore. You have to really make it custom because every environments different. >>I mean, gosh, you guys Aaron Arcee, right? It's nuts. There's thousands of vendors. I mean, there's hundreds of vendors that are really products. They're not the features masquerading as products that are masquerading as companies. But there's a reason why that's been the case, and it's because the risk is so high. >>The desperation to >>yes, exactly good word choice. Yeah. >>So what? One of the things that reminded me of security is this morning hearing about, you know, J P. Morgan going through the transformation from the ticketing system. Tau wait to make a great case study two. I need to be able to automate things. So, you know, we know that response time is so critically important in the security area. So tell us how that meshes together from security and automation toe be able to response, and you know, whether it be patching or, you know, responding to an attack, >>there's huge opportunity gains there on. We've seen customers do some really remarkable things that start with what you're discussing, which is if we could automate that fishing process to a degree and we have 4000 of those a month and we're able to maybe shrink a response time by 80 some or more percent, which is what we've seen. That's a lot of savings right there. And you know, the meat and potatoes there is. You already have a fishing Neil Alias. Probably that that employees report those phishing attacks, too. But what if we just monitored that? We stripped those emails, stripped out the attachments, and we could automate all the manual grunt work that an analyst would otherwise do right? Is that and is there in execute a ble? Is that execute herbal? Unknown bad? What command and control servers is it talk to? Are those known bads those air 10 tabs That analyst could have opening their browser if we could automate all of that. So when they go into the case, it's all just sitting there for them. Huge time saver. >>It's the great proof point of the people plus machines. How do you make make sure that the people that when they get the information, they're not having to do too much grunt work. They get really focused on the things where their expertise in skill sets are needed, as opposed to just buried. You >>nailed it. I mean, automation is a great role to play, but it really is a subset of orchestration. It's when you can bring those two things together and really fuse the people process and technology via orchestration. That's when you get really game changing improvements. >>Talk about the relationship between you guys or silly, unanswerable. Where's the fit? What you guys doing together? Why year give a quick plug for what you working on? >>Yeah, absolutely. So just by working with customers, we kind of discovered that there was this growing groundswell of answerable use within our customer base. It was largely an I T, whereas that IBM resilient. We're selling mainly in a security. Um, and once we uncovered that were like, Oh my gosh, there's all these integrations that already exists. They're already using them for I t use cases on that side of the house, but a lot of the same work needs to be done as part of a security workflow. And so we built our integration where, literally you install that integration into resilient. And we have a visual workflow editor where you can define a sophisticated workflow. And what's that? Integration is in place. All of your instable integrations air there for you. You drag and drop them on near workflow. You can string them all together. I mean, it's really, really powerful. >>It's interesting. Stew and I and David Lattin Ovary Brother Q. Post. We got hundreds of events we see every conference. Everyone's going for the control plane layer. Don't control the data. I mean, it's aspiration, but it's You can't just say it. You gotta earn it. What's happening here is interesting in this country. Configuration management. Little sector is growing up because they control the plumbing, the control of the hardware, the piece parts right to the operating system. So the abstraction lee. It provides great value as it moves up the stack, no doubt, and this is where the impact is, and you guys are seeing it. So this dependency between or the interdependence between software glue that ties the core underpinnings together, whether it's observe ability data. It's not a silo, just context, which they're integrating together. This the collision course? Yeah. What's the impact gonna be here? What's your thesis on this? >>That's why there is such great synergy is because they are really were sort of the domain expertise Doreen experts on the security point of view and our ability to leverage that automation set of functions that answerable provides into this framework where you can define that workflow and all the rest that specific to some security use cases eyes just very, very complimentary to one another. >>This is a new kind of a 2.0 Kana infrastructure dynamic, where this enables program ability. Because if these are the control switch is on the gear and the equipment and the network routes, >>yeah, and where things get really interesting is when you do that in the context of ah, workflow and a case management system, which is part of what we provide, then you get a lot of really valuable metrics that are otherwise lost. If you're purely just at a point to point tool to to automation realm, and that allows you to look at organizational improvements because you're able to marry. Well, first of all, you can do things like better understand what kind of value those I t controls. Air providing you and the automation that you're able to deliver. But you can relate that to your people in your process as well. And so you can see, for example, that while we have two teams, they're doing that the ones in the day shift ones in the night shift. They have access to the same tool sets, but ones more effective than the other. First of all, you know that. But then, having known that you can now drill into that and figure out OK, why is the day shift better than the night shift? And you can say, Oh, well, they're doing things a little bit differently, maybe with how they're orchestrating this other team is, Or maybe they're not orchestrating it. All right? And you're having that. And then now you are able to knowledge share and, um improve that process to drive that continuous improvement. >>So this operational efficiency comes from breaking down these siloed exactly mentality data sets or staff? >>Yeah, and pairing. That was not just as I said, the IittIe automation aspect of weaken now do that 80% faster. But what about the people in the process aspect? We even bring that into the mix as well. You get that next limit layer of insight which kind of allows you to tap into another layer of productivity. >>So this is an alignment issue. This brings that back. The core cultural shift of Dev ups. This is the beginning of what operationalize ng Dev ops looks like. >>Yes. Yeah, >>people are working together. >>It's really, really well put. I mean, it gets back to how this question got started, which is what is this energy? And to me, this energy really is that you have these siloed all too often siloed functions of I t operations and security operations. And this integration between resilient and answerable is the glue that starts to pull those two things together to unlock everything we just talked about. >>Awesome. That's great. >>Yeah, well, you know, research has shown that you know, Dev Ops embracing, delivering and shipping code more frequently actually can improve security. Not You know what? We have to go through this separate process and slow everything down. So are you seeing what? What is that kind of end state organization look like? Oh, >>I mean, that's a huge transformation. And it's something that on the security field we've been struggling with for the longest time, because when we were in kind of a waterfall mode of sort of doing things I mean your timeframe of uncovering a security issue, addressing it in code code, getting deployed to a meaningful enough fashion and over a long enough time to get a benefit that could be years, right? But now that we're in this model, I mean, that could be so much, much more quickly obtained and obviously not only other great just General Roo I improvements that come from that, but your ability to shrink the threat window as a result of this as well as huge and that is crucial because all the same things that us, the good guys they're doing to be able to automate our defenses, the bad guys, they're doing the same thing in terms of how they're automating their attacks. And so we really have to. We have no choice. >>So, Ted, you were acquired by IBM. IBM made quite sizeable acquisition with Red Hat. Tell us what your IBM with danceable. How that should play out >>there is just enormous potential. And answerable is a big, big piece of it, without a doubt. And I think we're just scratching the tip of the iceberg for the benefits. They're just in the from resilience point of view. And, you know, we're not to stay in touch because we have some really interesting things coming down the pike in terms of next gen platforms and the role that that answer will complain those two and how those stretch across the security portfolio with an IBM more broadly and then even beyond that. >>Well, we want to keep in touch. We certainly have initiated Cube coverage this year on security. Cyber little bit going for a broader than the enterprise. Looking at the edge edges. You know about the perimeter. Being just disabled by this new service area takes one penetration lightbulb I p address. So again, organizing and configuring these policy based systems sounds like a configuration problem. Yeah, it is. This is where the software's gonna do it. Ted, Thanks for coming on. Sharing the insights. Any other updates on your front. What do you are most interested in what? Give us a quick update on what you're working on. >>Um, well, we're just getting started with the answerable stuff, so that's particularly notable here, but also kind of modern, modernizing our portfolio, and that really gets to the whole open shift side of the equation and the Red Hat acquisition as well, So not ready to announce anything yet. But some interesting things going on there that that kind of pull this all together and that serve as just one part of the foundation for the marriage between red at 9 p.m. and wanna sneak a value can bring the >>customers any sneak peek at all on the new direct. Sorry time. At least lips sink ships Don't do it. Love to no. >>Blame me for asking. >>Hey, I got a feeling hasn't automation. And somewhere in there Ted, thanks for sharing your insights. It was great to see Cuba coverage here. Danceable fest. 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>> Narrator: Live from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It's theCUBE covering Women in Data Science Conference 2018. Brought to you by Stanford. >> Welcome back to theCUBE. Our continuing coverage live at the Women in Data Science Conference 2018, #WiDS2018. I'm Lisa Martin and I'm very excited to not only be at the event, but to now be joined by one of the speakers who spoke this morning. Mala Anand, the executive vice president at SAP and the president of SAP Leonardo Data Analytics, Mala Anand, Mala, welcome to theCUBE. >> Thank you Lisa, I'm delighted to be here. >> So this is your first WiDS and we were talking off camera about this is the third WiDS and 100,000 people they're expecting to reach today. As a speaker, how does that feel knowing that this is being live streamed and on their Facebook Live page and you have the chance to reach that many people? >> It's really exciting, Lisa and you know, it's inspiring to see that we've been able to attract so many participants. It's such an important topic for us. More and more I think two elements of the topic, one is the impact that data science is going to have in our industry as well as the impact that we want more women to participate with the right passion and being able to be successful in this field. >> I love that you said passion. I think that's so key and that's certainly one of the things, I think as my second year hosting theCUBE at WiDS, you feel it when you walk in the door. You feel it when you're reading the #WiDS2018 Twitter feed. It's the passion is here, the excitement is here. 150 plus regional WiDS events going on today in over 50 countries so the reach can be massive. What were maybe the top three takeaways from your talk this morning that the participants got to learn? >> Absolutely, and what's really exciting to see is that we see from a business perspective that customers are seeing the potential to drive higher productivity and faster growth in this whole new notion of digital technologies and the ability now for these new forms of systems of intelligence where we embed machine learning, big data, analytics, IoT, into the core of the business processes and it allows us to reap unprecedented value from data. It allows us to create new business models and it also allows us to reimagine experiences. But all of this is only possible now with the ability to apply data science across industries in a very deep and domain expertise way, and so that's really exciting and, moreover, to see diversity in the participants. Diversity in the people that can impact this is very exciting. >> I agree. You talked about digital business. Digital transformation opens up so many new business model opportunities for companies but the application of advanced analytics, for example, alone opens up so many more career opportunities because every sector is affected by big data. Whether we know it or not, right? And so the opportunity for those careers is exploding. But another thing that I think is also ripe for conversation is bringing in diverse perspectives to analyze and interpret that data. >> Absolutely. >> To remove some of the bias so that more of those business models and opportunities can really bubble up. >> Absolutely. >> Lisa: Tell me about your team at SAP Leonardo and from a diversity perspective, what's going on there? >> Yeah, absolutely. So I think your point is really valid which is, the importance of bringing in diversity and also the importance of diversity both from a gender perspective and a diversity in skills. And I think the key element of data and decision science is now it opens up different types of skills, right? It opens up the skills of course, the technology skills are fundamental. The ability to read data modeling is fundamental, but then we add in the deep domain expertise. The add in the business perspectives. The ability to story tell and that's where I see the ability to story tell with the right domain expertise opens up such a massive opportunity for different kinds of participants in this field and so within SAP itself, we are very driven by driving diversity. SAP had set a very aggressive goal for by 2017 to be at 25% of women in leadership positions and we achieved that. We've got an aggressive goal to be at 30% of women in leadership positions by 2020 and we're really excited to achieve that as well and very important as well both within Leonardo and data analytics as well, by diversity is fundamental to our growth and more importantly to the growth for the industry. I think that's going to be fundamental. >> I think that's a really important point, the growth of the industry. SAP does a lot with WiDS. We had Ann Rosenberg on last year. I saw her walking around. So from a cultural stand point, what you've described, there's really a dedicated focus there and I think it's a unique opportunity that SAP doesn't have. They're taking advantage of it to really show how a massive corporation, a huge enterprise, can really be very dedicated to bringing in this diversity. It helps the business, but it also, to your point, can make a big impact on industry. >> Absolutely, you know, culture is such a critical part of being succeeding in the business, and I think culture is an important lever that can help differentiate companies in the market. So of course it's technology, it's value creation for our customers, and I think culture is such an important part of it, and when you unpeel the lever of culture, within there comes diversity, and within there comes bringing a different diversity of skills base as well that is going to be really critical in the next generation of businesses that will get created. >> I like that. Especially sitting in Silicon Valley where there's new businesses being created every, probably 30 seconds. I'd love to understand, if we kind of take a walk back through your career and how you got to where you are now. What were some of the things that inspired you along the way, mentors? What were some of the things that you found really impactful and crucial to you being as successful as you are and a speaker at an event like WiDS? >> Oh, absolutely. It's really exciting to see that from my own personal journey, I think that one of the things that was really important is passion. And ensuring that you find those areas that you're passionate about. I was always very passionate about software and being able to look at data and analyze data. From doing my undergraduate in Computer Science, as well as my graduate work in Computer Science from Brown, and from there on out, always looking at any of the opportunities whether it was an individual contributor that I did. It's important to be passionate and I felt that that was really my guiding post to really being able to move up from a career perspective, and also looking to be in an environment, in an ecosystem, of people and environments that you're always learning from, right? And always never being afraid to reach a little bit further than your capabilities. I think ensuring that you always have confidence in the ability that you can reach, and even though the goals might feel a little bit far away at the moment. So I think also being around a really solid team of mentors and being able to constantly learn. So I would say a constant, continuous learning, and passion is really the key to success. >> I couldn't agree more. I think it's that we often, the word expert is thrown around so often and in so many things, and there certainly are people that have garnered a lot of expertise in certain areas, but I always think, "Are you really ever an expert?" There's so much to learn everyday, there's so many opportunities. But another thing that you mentioned that reminded me of, we had Maria Klawe on a little bit earlier today and one of the things that she said in her welcome address was, in terms of inspiration, "Don't worry if there's something "that you think you're not good at." >> Mala: Absolutely. >> It's sort of getting out of your comfort zone and one of my mentors likes to say, "getting comfortably uncomfortable." That's not an easy thing to achieve. So I think having people around, people like yourself, you're now a mentor to potentially 100,000 people today, alone. What are some of the steps that you recommend of, how does someone go, "I really like this, "but I don't know if I can do it." How would you help someone get comfortably uncomfortable? >> Yeah, I think first of all, building a small group I would say, of stakeholders that are behind you and your success is going to be really important. I think also being confident about your abilities. Confidence comes in failing a few times. It's okay to miss a few goals, it's okay to fail, but then you leap forward even faster. >> Failure is not a bad F word, right? >> Mala: Absolutely. >> It really can be, and I think, a lot of leaders, like yourself will say that it's actually part of the process. >> It's very much part of the process. And so I think, number one thing is passion. First you've got to be really clear that this is exactly what you're passionate about. Second is building a team around you that you can count on, you can rely on, that are invested in your success. And then thirdly is also just to ensure that you are confident. Being confident about asking for more. Being confident about being able to reach close to the impossible is okay. >> It is okay, and it should be encouraged, every day. No matter what gender, what ethnicity, that should just sort of be one of those level playing fields, I think. Unfortunately, it probably won't be but events like WiDS, and the reach that it's making today alone, certainly, I think, offer a great foundation to start helping break some of the molds that even as we sit in Silicon Valley, are still there. There's still massive discrepancies in pay grades. There's still a big percentage of females with engineering degrees that are not working in the field. And I think the more people like yourself, and some of your other colleagues that are here participating at WiDS alone today, have the opportunity to reach a broader audience, share their stories. Their failures, the successes, and all the things that have shaped that path, the bigger the opportunity we have and it's, I think, almost, sort of a responsibility for those of us who've been in STEM for a while, to help the next generation understand nobody got here with a silver spoon. Eh, some. >> Absolutely. >> But on a straight path. It's always that zig zaggy sort of path, and embrace it! >> Yeah, I think that's key, right? And the one point here is very relevant that you mentioned as well is, that it's very important for us to recognize that a love for an environment where you can embrace the change, right? In order to embrace change, it's not just people that are going through it, but people that are supporting it and sponsoring it because it's a big change. It's a change from what was an environment a few years ago to what is going to be an environment of the future, which is an environment full of diversity. So I think being able to be ambassadors of the change is really important. As well as to allow for confidence building in this environment, right? I think that's going to be really critical as well. And for us to support those environments and build awareness. Build awareness of what is possible. I think many times people will go through their careers without being aware of what is possible. Things that were certain thresholds, certain limits, certain guidelines, two years ago are dramatically different today. >> Oh yes. >> So having those ambassadors of change that can help us build awareness, with our growing community, I think is going to be really important. >> I think, some of the things too, that you're speaking to, there are boundaries that are evaporating. We're seeing them become perforated and sort of disappear, as well as maybe some of these structured careers. There's a career as this, as that. They used to be pretty demarcated. Doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant, whatnot. And now it's almost infinite. Especially having a foundation in technology with data science and the real world social implications alone, that a career in this field can deliver just kind of shows the sky's the limit. >> Yeah, absolutely. The sky's truly the limit, and I think that's where you're absolutely right. The lines are blurring between certain areas, and at the same time, I think, this opens up huge opportunity for diversity in skill set and diversity in domain. I think equally important is to ensure to be successful you want to start by driving focus, as well, right? So, how do you draw that balance? And for us to be able to mentor and guide the younger generation, to drive that focus. At the same time take leverage the opportunities open is going to be critical. >> So getting back to SAP Leondardo. What's next in this year, we're in March of 2018. What are some of the things that are exciting you that your team is going to be working on and delivering for SAP and your customers this year? >> SAP Leondardo is really exciting because it essentially allows for our customers to drive faster innovation with less risk. And it allows our customers to create these digital businesses where you have to change a business process and a business model that no single technology can deliver. So as a result we bring together machine learning, big data analytics, IoT, all running on a solid cloud platform with in-memory databases like Kana, at scale. So this year is going to be all about how we bring these capabilities together very specifically by industry and reimagine processes across different industries. >> I like that, reimagine. I think that's one of the things that you're helping to do for females in data science and computer sciences. Reimagine the possibilities. Not just the younger generation, but also those who've been in the field for a while that I think will probably be quite inspired and reinvigorated by some of the things that you're sharing. So, Mala, thank you so much for taking the time to stop by theCUBE and share your insights with us. We wish you continued success in your career and we look forward to seeing you WiDS next year. >> Thank you so much, Lisa. I'm delighted to be here. >> Excellent. >> Thank you. >> My pleasure. We want to thank you. You are watching theCUBE live from WiDS 2018, at Stanford University. I'm Lisa Martin. Stick around, my next guest will be joining me after this short break.