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We were excited to wrap up Decibel’s first “Founder Festival” at RSAC, an exciting 3-day event that brought together over 1,000 founders and early adopters in our open venue built for our community. We hosted lunches, cocktail hours, and meetups designed for networking and inspired connections for all friends and family of Decibel at the Children’s Creativity Museum next to Moscone (this is our “Founder Oasis” at RSAC!)
Many thanks to everyone who brought their fresh ideas and energy to the event - it was our biggest and best yet!
The vibes (and vulns) were high - thank you to all of the Decibel founders, friends and family for a great evening of cocktails, networking, and celebration to kick off RSAC 2026!
AI Engineering at Scale
Pat Opet, CISO of JPMorgan Chase
Code can be written by AI faster than ever, and no organization faces the challenge of speed vs. risk like the largest bank in the world
Biggest Deal in Cyber: Where is Google Going?
Francis deSouza de Souza, COO and President of Security Products, Google Cloud
Mandiant. Chronicle. Gemini. And now... Wiz! Google is the most interesting company to watch and we are all paying attention to where they go next
More Signal, Less Noise: Creating New Tracks in Cyber
Alex Pall, Founder, The Chainsmokers and Mantis VC
Every founder can learn from the best creators - there is so much power that comes from rising above the noise in a crowded industry
The Founder Festival “Tiger Cage”: Who is the Next Big Thing?
Three of the hottest new companies in the industry battled it out in front of our panel of celebrity judges. Congrats to all who participated:
Winners
Elias Manousos and Brandon Dixon, Ent Security (Intent Aware Endpoint Protection)
Damien Lewke, Nebulock (Agentic Threat Hunting)
Lina Lau and Ty Yarwood, Xintra (Simulating Critical Infrastructure)
Celebrity Judges
Anthony Grieco, SVP, Chief Security & Trust Officer, Cisco
Joe Sullivan , Former CISO, Cloudflare and Uber
Mark Thornberry, SVP Partnerships, GuidePoint Security
The Cloud Security Podcast: “Nothing Artificial: Cutting Through the BS at RSAC”
Thank you to our partners Ashish Rajan (Cloud Security Podcast), Caleb Sima (WhiteRabbit) and founders Edward Wu (DropZone) and Elias Manousos (Ent Security) for recording a live discussion with us at the show
The WinCyber Community Meetup
Thank you to Nicole Perlroth (Silver Buckshot), Lisa Kaplan (Alethea), Nancy Wang (1Password), and Candace Williams (Raytheon) for hosting the next generation of women leading our industry throughout the day 🙏
“Founders Helping Founders”
Bipul Sinha, CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder at Rubrik
AI is changing everything for founders - and there is no better person to share advice with our community on rewriting the rules of cyber 🔥
Unsupervised and Unhinged - Coding Agents Unleashed
Our community meetup with Clint Gibler (TL;DR Sec) & Daniel Miessler (Unsupervised Learning) was packed with the best lightning talks on coding agents and AI security:
Jason Haddix (Arcanum Information Security ) — "Attacking AI Systems"
Dave Aitel (OpenAI) — "Life in the Forest Fire"
Sydney Marrone (Nebulock) — "Catching Claws"
Clint Gibler (Semgrep, tl;dr sec) — "AppSec is Dead, Long Live AppSec"
Jackie Bow (Anthropic) — "Catch & Kill: Agents on the Loose"
Rob Ragan (Bishop Fox) — "Human Over the Loop"
Andrew Becherer (Sublime Security) — "She Trusted AI with Her Entire SDLC. Here is What Happened Next"
Daniel Miessler (Unsupervised Learning) — "The Must-know AI Ideas for 2026”
Launching from Stealth
Thank you to our founders who demoed new products and shared their disruptive ideas worth spreading for the first time:
Fletcher Heisler (Authentik) - The Agentic IAM
Arshan Dabirsiaghi (Pixee) - Re-Writing the Rules for Coding Agents
Josh Devon and Matthew Maisel (Sondera) - Predicting Agent Behavior
Jonathan Cran (Mallory) - Democratizing Threat Intelligence
The Risky Business Podcast: “Proudly Offensive”
Thank you to our “Proudly Offensive” friends Patrick Gray (Risky Business), Rob Joyce (former NSA), Andrew G. Boyd (former CIA), and special guest Charlie Moore (former USCYBERCOM) who shared their perspectives on how the US is evolving its cyber defense.
We were excited to host our first Global Innovation Showcase at the Founder Festival - our theme this year was “East Meets West: Building Cyber Resilience without Borders”. We highlighted how founders and early adopters around the world can work together in the era of autonomous security. Thank you to Cheri Lim (CISO of Temasek), and our friends at IMDA and CSA for helping us organize a unique event for multi-nationals and government agencies. Thank you to all who participated:
Securing the Workforce
Elias Manousos, Ent Security (The Next Frontier in Endpoint Protection)
Robert Winchester, SpecterOps (Modern Identity Risk Management)
Mark Orlando, Push Security (Stopping Browser Based Attacks)
Ford Parsons, Sublime Security (Agentic Phishing Protection)
Defending Critical Infrastructure
HD Moore, RunZero (You Can't Protect What You Can't See)
Zakir Durumeric, Censys (Security Data is Your Best Defense)
Lina Lau, Xintra (Simulating Critical Infrastructure)
Autonomous Defense
Edward Wu, DropZone (The Autonomous SOC)
Will Pearce, Dreadnode (Building Offensive AI Agents)
Damien Lewke, Nebulock (Agentic Threat Hunting)
We are grateful to everyone who made this year’s event a success. We look forward to seeing you all next year!
