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Solving Security as
a Big Data Problem
Carbon Black
Patrick Morley, President & CEO
Meet the Torchbearer
Patrick Morley,
President, and CEO:
Patrick has led Carbon
Black since 2007. Under his
direction, the company has
grown from a startup into the
market share leader in cloud
endpoint protection (EPP).
The company trades today on
the Nasdaq exchange under
the ticker symbol CBLK.
Previously, Morley was
president and CEO of
Imprivata Corporation and
has held senior leadership
positions with six venture-
backed software companies,
including three that had
successful IPOs. He earned
a bachelor’s degree in
Mathematics and Computer
Science from Providence
College.
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C
yberattacks have
become a growing
menace in the era
of mobile technology.
Dealing with it requires
sophisticated analytics and
the computational power
and agility of the cloud.
Established in 2002, Carbon
Black was founded with the
aim of keeping the world
safe from cyberattacks with
its new generation of cloud-
delivered security solutions
designed to protect
against the most advanced
threats. Headquartered in
Waltham, Massachusetts,
Carbon Black has offices
in San Antonio (Texas),
Boulder (Colorado),
Portland(Oregon), The
United Kingdom, Singapore,
Japan, and Australia.
Evolution
The endpoint security
market has been around for
about 20 years, and legacy
products were initially
focused on one thing
only: stopping commodity
malware by building a
perimeter to prevent
attacks. But as attackers
began to evolve they figured
out how to circumvent
legacy solutions. The
market needed to adapt
and innovative vendors like
Carbon Black developed
technologies that extended
beyond prevention only.
These solutions look at
attacker behaviors and at
data trends that indicate
suspicious behavior,
enabling professionals to
detect, respond to and even
predict attacks, accounting
for the full attack lifecycle.
Today, organizations are
realizing that cybersecurity
is a big data problem
and that using the cloud
enables security teams to
gain quicker and stronger
insight into attacks by
collecting, retaining and
analyzing critical attack
data.
As a long-standing player
in the endpoint security
market, Carbon Black
initially developed the
industry’s first application
whitelisting product. The
company evolved to include
Endpoint Detection and
Response (EDR), Next-
Generation Anti-Virus
(NGAV), and advanced
threat hunting. In recent
years, the company has
made a strong shift to the
cloud, and now produces
one of the market’s leading