Matt Cauthorn

About Matt

Matt Cauthorn is responsible for all security implementations and leads a team of technical security engineers who work directly with customers and prospects. A passionate technologist and evangelist, Matt is often on site with customers working to solve the complex and mission-critical business problems that Fortune 1,000 and global 2,000 companies face. After years spent helping customers tap into the value offered by network-based analytics, Matt has been able to bring fresh thinking to security threat detection. Matt's collaborated with companies across various industries including banking, healthcare, energy, and retail. Prior to ExtraHop, Matt was a Sales Engineering Manager at F5 and before that he started his career in the trenches as a practitioner where he oversaw application hosting, infrastructure, and security for five international data centers.

Matt holds an MBA from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida. Matt's a security thought leader and blogger, frequently speaking at industry events, has been featured on podcasts, in webinars, and is commonly quoted in industry coverage.

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Posts by Matt Cauthorn

• InfoSecurity Magazine: Advanced Persistent Agony

  • August 31, 2018
  • Posted in Company, Security

  Have you ever seen a major data breach in the news and thought, 'Wow, they did a great job handling that situation and communicating it to the public?' If you're like ExtraHop's VP of Security, probably not. Learn how to fix the broken breach response template in this InfoSecurity Magazine piece!

• Protecting Industrial Control Systems from State-Sponsored Hackers

  • April 26, 2018
  • Posted in Company, Security

  Get the low-down on how to use network security analytics to defend against Russian state-sponsored hackers.

• As seen in Security Boulevard: Real-Time Analytics for PCI Compliance

  • April 4, 2018
  • Posted in Company, Security

  Learn what companies need to know about PCI compliance, as seen in Security Boulevard.

• Silence Your Alert Cannon with ExtraHop Reveal(x) Security Analytics

  • January 30, 2018
  • Posted in Launches, Reveal(x), Security

  ExtraHop has launched Reveal(x), a new security analytics product designed to increase critical asset visibility and automate investigations. Here's how it works.

• Metcalfe's Law for IT Ops: Lowering Data Friction in Your IT Strategy

  • December 1, 2017
  • Posted in Tech, Riffs, Security

  Metcalfe's Law explains the exponential impact of network effects. For IT, this can be a curse and blessing. This lightboard video teaches how this concept can affect your IT strategy.

• How to Maintain Visibility with Perfect Forward Secrecy

  • November 13, 2017
  • Posted in Company, Tech, Security

  ExtraHop Sales Engineering VP Matt Cauthorn explains how you can use perfect forward secrecy encryption while maintaining visibility.

• The Equation For Data Value and Information Superiority

  • November 15, 2016
  • Posted in Community, Company, Tech

  The equation for determining how valuable your data is: Data Value = Velocity/Friction X # of Users.

• What Is a Tinygram?

  • September 21, 2015
  • Posted in APM and NPM, Tech, Good Reads, Network Data, Wire Data Analytics

  What are tinygrams? When do they arise? Are they a problem? What can I do about them and how do I do it?

• Why Nobody Monitors Web Services Like ExtraHop Does

  • December 13, 2013
  • Posted in Company, Tech, Analysis, News, Good Reads

  A year or so ago, I was doing a demo for the sales engineering team at one of our channel partners. As I began to explain how ExtraHop parses HTTP transactions, the VP of Engineering interrupted me…