Exabeam Inc.

That's separate from yesterday's third lower risk bug.

Cybersecurity firm Exabeam warns that patching won't remove existing intruders.

Admins should also check for unusual outbound connections and service accounts logging in from new locations.

Signs attackers may be using stolen credentials to move beyond the web server.

Well, you know, Jeff, today's show is kind of the first for us.

We have a very special guest, Craig Patterson, who is the SVP of Global Channels for Exabeam, which is...

In our terms, that's like channel chief for the company.

He runs everything channel globally.

you're running a pretty broad swag then.

Yes.

I mean, think about the traditional channel ecosystem, which, by the way, here in my company, Exabeam is the is the primary route to market.

You know, we fully believe that channel is the operating model for scale.

I think this acquisition kind of fits well into the Toma Bravo portfolio.

They have a bunch of other tech companies, including security companies like With names you'll know, like Sophos, Darktrace, Ping Identity, Exabeam, and Proofpoint, of course, also adding Varonis to the fold.

Side note, Toma Bravo also owns CompTIA, the IT certifications company, so whether you know it or not, you may have had some dealings with Toma Bravo.

Moving on, Swedish telecom giant Ericsson reported Q3 2026 financial results for the quarter.

Yeah.

So, um, if you back up and, and talk about what Exabeam does, we help people monitor all of the activity going on on their networks, what are employees doing, what are they accessing, um, and do those indicate an amount of security risk that you need to deal with, um, you know, either in intentional behavior or unintentional behavior.

And, uh, we have algorithms that we've developed over the past 10, 15 years that sift through gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes of data looking for these patterns.

And, um, and we're really good at spotting potential risk, and then we hand it to somebody in the security operations center that looks at that and tries to decide, is this real? Is this serious? If I have to make a quick decision about do I turn off the CEO's laptop before the big meeting, um, because maybe he's been infected with malware, um, that's the trick is it's always required this level of human judgment, and it needed to be pretty sophisticated and pretty rapid.

... you know, was really there.

And, and usually in the external threat actor, it was like an external threat actor had emailed somebody and gotten an email compromise, which then turned into an internal, you know, activity, right? Or internal behavior.

You know, as you talk about the proliferation of agents, and this is a big part for Exabeam, is, y- you know, this idea of like agent versus person, is it really different on the network? And how...

You know, and, and if, if you're really talking about like...

Bill Teibel from Xtreme is going to be on.

And then we have Craig Patterson from Exabeam is going to be one of our guests.

And it should be very interesting.

He's a global channel chief.

How do we securely connect from that fortified home office back to the corporate mothership or the secure cloud portal without exposing ourselves?

The Exabeam and Venn reports are unequivocal on this subject.

Yeah.

The traditional virtual private network, the VPN, is a dead legacy technology.