Prasad Parthasarathi
Senior Director & Global Head - Cybersecurity VC / M&A @ Cisco Investments
San Francisco Bay Area
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2015
Global Head - Cybersecurity VC / M&A
2015
Lead Cisco's Corporate Development team responsible for sourcing, evaluating and executing venture investments and M&A in Cybersecurity Indicative M&A: - Robust Intelligence (AI Security) / ND - Deepfactor (Cloud Native Security) / ND - Isovalent (Cloud Native Security and Networking) / ND - Splunk (SIEM Platform) / $28B - pinACL (Firewall Policy Management) / ND - Oort (Identity Threat Detection and Response) / ND - Armorblox (Generative AI / LLMs for Cybersecurity) / ND - Valtix (Multi-Cloud Network Security) / ND - Kenna Security (Risk Based Vulnerability Management) / ND - Duo Security (Cloud Identity & Access / $2.35B) - Observable Networks (Public Cloud and Private Network Monitoring) / ND - CloudLock (Cloud Access Security Broker, CASB / $293M) - Lancope (Netflow & Security Analytics / $453M)
2024
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Federated Search for Security Data
2024
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2024
End-to-end Ransomware Readiness, Prevention, and Recovery platform
2024
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2024
Modern / Cloud Privileged Access Management (PAM)
2024
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2024
Open Network Detection and Response (NDR)
2024
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2024
Securing Firmware and Software Supply Chain
2023
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Breakthrough Dynamic Authorization and Continuous Access Platform
2023
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Cloud Native Detection and Response Platform
2023
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Cloud Threat Detection and Incident Response
2023
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2023
End-to-End AI / ML Model Security, Risk and Integrity