Phil Venables
@philvenables
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All about cyber, resilience, risk, AI - at scale. Partner - Ballistic Ventures / Google - Strategic Advisor / 4 x CISO / Board Director / Chief Risk Officer
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Joined April 2009
Many years ago a friend told me he’d made a deal with his son that before he left home he could pick any vacation he wanted - no exceptions. I copied that idea and so with 3 weeks before he goes to college me and the boy are doing the special father/son trip. Thankfully he.
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Hey, .@TheSquareBall surely Leeds being one of the least hard done by doesn’t fit the narrative?
🧵 (1/7) Hardest Done By Report: A Thread . We ranked all 92 English football league clubs, across 13 different categories, using Opta data to reveal which fans truly suffer the most. 👀. Contrary to belief, Arsenal fans are actually the least hard done by in the #PL, with
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Excited to be joining the Board of Infoblox. Infoblox unites networking, security and cloud to form a platform for operations that’s as resilient as it is agile. Trusted by 13,000+ customers, including 92 of the Fortune 100.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 6, 2025 — Infoblox , a leader in cloud networking and security services, today announced the appointment of Phil Venables to its board of directors. A globally respected...
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DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. Criteria to determine if particular technologies are on a path to “utility scale” for a set of target problem domains (not just code breaking).
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Good to see PQC and in particular the need for crypto-agility called out in The White House report on Digital Finance Technology.
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Today @Google Project Zero announced its new Reporting Transparency policy. The goal is to close the "upstream patch gap" when reporting a vulnerability, ensuring end users are better protected:
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Our new Ballistic Ventures investment to revolutionize vulnerability management : Root Evidence. Looking forward to working with @jeremiahg @RSnake and the rest of the team.
rootevidence.com
Root Evidence, the cybersecurity startup championing evidence-based security, announces it has raised $12.5 million in a seed round. The investment brings together an incredible group of highly...
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Looking for exposed secrets in cloud providers’ public images. Nice to see Google did rather well :-).
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Leeds United's transformation into "Big Bastards FC" continues.
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OSS-Rebuild from Google. Another tool in the toolbox for mitigating open source software risks.
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Decoding Cybercrime's True Scope: Beyond the Trillion-Dollar Hype. A new @theNASEM report reveals the truth about #cybercrime stats: our data is fragmented, inconsistent, & underreported. We can't fight what we can't accurately measure. The path forward is a coordinated data.
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