The Good Tech Companies - Mario Duarte, Former Snowflake Cybersecurity Leader, Joins Aembit As CISO

Episode Date: October 2, 2024

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This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Mario Duarte, former Snowflake cybersecurity leader, joins AEMBID as CISO. By Cyber Newswire, Silver Spring, Maryland, October 2, 2024, Cyber Newswire, AEMBID, the non-human IAM company, today announced the appointment of Mario Duarte as Chief Information Security Officer. CISO, Duarte, formerly head of security at Snowflake, joins a MBIT with a deep commitment to address pressing gaps in non-human identity security. Duarte's journey in cybersecurity began with a passion for penetration testing, sparked by the 1980s cult classic film War Games. He started his career in red teaming, later expanding his expertise into both technical and leadership roles in the defensive side. Throughout his career,

he has focused on protecting mission-critical systems, solving complex security problems, and developing and overseeing high-performing teams. His experience spans multiple industries, including finance, healthcare, retail, and technology. Most notably, Vardy spent nearly a decade at Snowflake, where he played a key role in shaping and leading the data cloud company's security program, rising Toviche President of Security, aka CISO. It was during this time that he first encountered Embed and its innovative and award-winning approach to securing non-human identities. Greater than, I fell in love with security because of the thrill of finding weaknesses and greater than fixing them, Guarte said. Greater than, I've always had the mindset of

an attacker, but over the years, I've focused greater than on defending organizations, understanding where the real threats are coming greater than from and solving those problems at scale. Throughout my career, I've witnessed greater than how non-human identities like workloads and service accounts are being greater than exploited, and knew this was the next big frontier in security. Before his time at Snowflake, Guarde held senior security roles at multiple organizations, including GoGrid, Moody's KMV, and Ross Stores. His ability to adapt and thrive in diverse sectors helped shape his understanding of security from multiple threat angles and perspectives, including compliance with FedRAMP, HIPAA, HITECH, and PCI standards.

Duarte was drawn to Embit not only because of its groundbreaking technology but also by the culture and mission of the company. Greater than, Embit is solving a problem that's been neglected for years, securing the greater-than non-human identities that drive IT infrastructure, he said. Greater than, it's replacing outdated methods like static credentials and manual processes greater than with a more dynamic and secure approach that my peers and I have been seeking greater than for a long time. The EMBIT team recognizes the complexity of this problem and greater than is relentless in creating a practical and scalable solution for it. As the need for identity-driven, secretless, centrally enforced, and auditable connections

across distributed applications, SaaS services, and the rise of AI workloads, the EMBIT Workload IAM platform, honored as runner-up in the 2024 rsa innovation sandbox competition responds by enforcing secure access between inhuman workloads and the sensitive resources and infrastructure that businesses run on providing just-in-time secretless access based on the workload's identity and posture greater than mario brings an unmatched level of experience and passion to our team greater than mbit coIT co-founder and CEO David Goldschlag said. He's been in the trenches, greater than defending some of the most sophisticated infrastructures, and his leadership greater than will help guide EMBIT as we continue to solve the toughest identity security greater than challenges. In his new role, Duarte will

focus on advancing EMBIT's efforts to meet the needs of the security community as organizations increasingly shift to cloud-native, distributed, and automated environments. His deep connection to his fellow CISOs and security professionals, along with his commitment to providing effective, scalable, and practical solutions, will help guide EMBIT's continued growth in this fast-growing space. Greater than security is my tribe, he said. The stakes are too high here, and I wouldn't greater than put my name behind anything I didn't fully believe in. About MBIT, MBIT is the leading provider of workload identity and access management solutions, designed to secure non-human identities like applications, AI agents, and service accounts across on-premises, SaaS, cloud, and partner environments.

EMBIT's no-code platform enables organizations to enforce access policies in real-time, ensuring the security and integrity of critical infrastructure. User scan follow them on LinkedIn. Contact CMO Aperva Dave EMBITinfo at EMBIT.io. Tip This story was distributed as a release by CyberNewsWire under HackerNoom's business I'll see you in the next video.