THE CEO INTERVIEW www.ceotodaymagazine.com 18 Meet the New CEO of Waratek Doug Ennis Doug Ennis - an American with Irish heritage who’s now leading Irish cybersecurity company Waratek. Waratek’s security platform enables security to scale with modern software development through automating protection and legacy modernisation. Who is Waratek? We are not your traditional security company as our roots are in development, specifically lowlevel (compiler) development. This provides us with an interesting perspective on code vulnerabilities and we have the ability to visualise them in the code runtime. This enables us to fix code vulnerabilities without impacting the performance of the app, making code changes or creating false positives. What are your first goals as the new CEO of Waratek? Culture and vision are my first focused goals. Culture is commonly used as a buzzword and not often defined. Every company says they have a great culture but is that culture a great fit, moving forward, and changing properly with the growing company. Stepping in as CEO, it was very important to understand the dynamics of the current culture and what has driven the core of the company. It also enabled me to find the areas that could use focus to adjust or strengthen. Internally, we are rolling out our culture values during early Q3 and then will publicly display those values towards the end of September. My second goal revolves around our vision. That vision is to enable security professionals to define the behaviours they need in their organisation’s applications and then leverage our solution for autonomous execution of that behaviour. How is the transition into the new role going? Fantastic! I am a firm believer that we learn something new every day and I can definitely say that I am learning. I am also always up for a challenge and not afraid to fail. These two characteristics help guide me and provide confidence when attempting something new. Our Founder and I have found a common thread and way to work very well together. I believe that this has 1
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