When you say, “SOAR is Dead,” you’ll get some attention, and that’s exactly what happened at RSAC 2023. 

But it wasn’t just a statement that created the buzz. 

It was the solution that we unveiled that got people talking. The debut of Torq Hyperautomation™ created an enormous buzz across RSAC 2023 – on the show floor, in the media, and even on the street. Why? Because cybersecurity professionals are tired of the complexity associated with legacy SOAR platforms. They want something easier to use that doesn’t take up all their time or require costly professional services. We get it. That’s why our booth was packed with attendees wanting to demo the world’s first no-code, low-code, and full-code security automation platform with true enterprise scalability. It’s the same reason why CRN called Torq Hyperautomation “one of the coolest products at RSAC” and “the most important product announcement” by CSO Online. 

Torq Hyperautomation addresses the challenges that SOAR platforms have only made worse. 

According to the customers and partners we spoke with at RSAC, these are the most common problems facing cybersecurity professionals:

Trouble Retaining Security Talent 

One of the most common themes we heard echoed was the trouble retaining security talent. Specifically sourcing and hiring security professionals. We sat down with our partner, Recorded Future, who posed the question, “What if we took intelligence that’s not only human readable, but machine-readable, and then a powerful automation engine, so that instead of having your analysts waste time and look up indicators, and wasting time researching the simple, being things, what if we help them automate that?” By automating mundane tasks, cybersecurity professionals can focus on the aspects they are most passionate about in their careers. 

Too Many Tools

Another concern we heard from customers was the overwhelming amount of tools they are being forced to manage. Consolidation was a word we kept hearing as cybersecurity professionals are challenged to keep up with the overwhelming amount of tools and applications they interact with daily. Our partner SentinelOne noted, “The threat landscape hasn’t changed, but budgets definitely have. CISOs and CFOs will be more deliberate on the tools they choose. I think what’s so special about Torq is it not only speaks to something that makes you secure, but also helps you save money as well, and that’s going to speak to the heart of the CFO who is more and more influential in terms of that security buying decision.” That’s why it’s mission-critical for organizations to simplify and integrate tools to prevent coverage gaps. 

Multi-Cloud Complexity

Did you know that 76% of organizations operate in multi-cloud environments? We heard lots of discussion about the challenge of the complexity of multi-cloud environments. Our partner Dig, said, “I think Torq and Dig have both identified that the scale of the cloud requires a different level of automation.” With the adoption of multiple cloud services from different providers, it is challenging for cybersecurity teams to manage and monitor security risks effectively. Hyperautomation can help to streamline the process by automating the detection, analysis, and response to potential security threats.

Torq Hyperautomation is here to change the game. Here’s what the media had to say about Torq Hyperautomation:

“One of the most interesting products to see at RSAC 2023.”
CSO

“Top-10 cool new cybersecurity tool announced at RSAC 2023.”
CRN

“One of the most important new product announcements at RSAC 2023.”
SecurityWeek

“Automates whole workflows and processes for all security initiatives within an organization.”
Analytics Insight

“Torq empowers people to take greater responsibility for security while enabling them to participate in threat remediation.”
SiliconAngle

“Capable of automating the most complex security infrastructures.”
Betanews

“Torq Hyperautomation is distinguished from legacy SOAR, making it simpler to use a range of tools to create new processes.”
Security Boulevard

“Innovative GPT AI-based analytics.”
CyberWire

“A quantum leap forward for security automation.”
SecuritySenses

Want to learn more about how to streamline your security workflows and stay ahead of emerging threats? Test drive Torq Hyperautomation, here: https://torq.io/demo/

We’re thrilled to announce the appointment of Natasha Fulbright as our VP of Growth. Natasha’s served as Corporate VP of Marketing at Pax8, and will be responsible for driving growth marketing and building our go-to-market engine. Get to know Natasha, below:

Tell us about how you plan to elevate growth at Torq in 2023? 

Prior to my joining, the team had built a really strong sales and marketing teck stack foundation, and my objective is to put fuel on those tools enabling them to work together creating striking integrated campaigns to generate demand and also build customer community programs. Our product is incredibly powerful, and now it’s all about elevating and getting the message out there to the right people to accelerate our growth. We really are taking away mundane and repetitive tasks from IT and Security teams, so that they can concentrate on strategic initiatives, what’s not to love about that. I think we have so much untapped potential and I’m joining at a time where I feel I can make an impact to the business. 

Tell us a little bit about your career path before Torq

My career has always been in B2B Marketing and the environment has ever-changed. In my previous role I served as the Corporate VP of Marketing at Pax8, where the company saw 60% revenue growth, yearly during my 5-year tenure. When I left Pax8, we had achieved a $1B run-rate. Over the course of my tenure we went from being a startup to a mid-sized company. I loved being an integral part of their growth, which is now what I want to do here for Torq. I thrive on being given the opportunity to build and grow teams. 

What makes you excited about working at Torq? 

The limitless possibilities for Torq’s success. The whole team carries this energy and enthusiasm which is addictive. We’ve even had customers tell us that Torq is addictive, and I think it resonates through everything the team does. The possibilities are endless, we see that in how our customers react when they see a demo, and our high adoption rate. We’re excited to be pioneering a new way forward for enterprise-grade security automation. Don Jeter (Torq CMO) and I have worked closely together for five years – we’re a marketing duo. I’m excited to support him and the entire Torq team in building the go-to-market strategy here. I feel honored to work and learn alongside the experienced sales leadership that also recently joined. 

What’s the best piece of advice you were ever given? 

Eleven years ago I had a mentor that I told I was very interested in moving overseas from the EMEA office in London to the Global HQ of the company in Denver, and he replied, “Have you told anyone you want to work at the Global HQ?” I sheepishly replied, “no,” and he replied, “do you think you should?” and I sheepishly replied, “yes.” So, I made a phone call, and my colleague declared I’d made their day. Within three months I was on a plane moving from London to Denver, Colorado. Lesson learned, ask for what you want. It was simple advice, but it changed my life. 

What are your hobbies outside of work? 

I ski (a lot) in the winter, and road bike (a little) in the summer. I also love to travel. My favorite place I’ve ever been to is Vietnam, it’s beautiful and the culture is enchanting. I’ve been twice, and I really want to go back again. 

Torq further accelerates growth and global expansion with world-class hires
as broader tech sector struggles with revenue declines and layoffs

New York, NY, February 13, 2023—Torq, the security automation leader, today announced the addition of new Senior Vice-President of Worldwide Sales Josh Morris and Chief Marketing Officer Don Jeter to its executive team. Together, Morris and Jeter will be responsible for helping propel Torq into its next phase of growth and shape the company’s sales and marketing strategies to maximize its pipeline, customer engagement, and brand reach and engagement.

These additions to the executive team also coincide with Torq moving its US headquarters to New York City so it’s even more closely connected with major global enterprises. They also underline the extraordinary market opportunity ahead for Torq. According to Forrester, in its The Pandemic’s Wake Drives Automation Trends report, “Companies with advanced automation programs will obliterate — not merely beat — the competition.” In addition, Emergen Research forecasts in its December 2022 Security Orchestration Market report that the global security orchestration market “is expected to reach $9.6b in 2030, registering a CAGR of 16.52%.”

“Josh and Don’s collective leadership and expertise will take Torq to new heights by elevating our go-to-market success,” said Ofer Smadari, CEO and Co-Founder, Torq. “In 2022, Torq achieved 800% revenue growth and 10X customer growth, even while so many other technology companies are dealing with revenue declines, resulting in mass layoffs. We’re just at the beginning of a spectacular journey as we continue to strengthen our market position and drive home the dramatic benefits our enterprise-grade security automation platform provides to organizations across every industry.”

Morris is a highly-experienced executive with more than 20 years of sales leadership in global companies across all aspects of cybersecurity. He has a demonstrated history of working in both public companies and early-stage ventures. Morris was previously Group Vice President at Splunk and has held sales leadership positions at Palo Alto Networks, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence via Silversky acquisition, and Symantec via Messagelabs acquisition. The addition of Morris follows the appointment of Paulo Veloso, Vice President of Sales, Americas, another cybersecurity visionary who joined Torq after serving as a key sales leader at Splunk.

“There has never been a greater need in the history of cybersecurity for security automation than at this present moment,” said Morris. “That means there has also never been a greater market opportunity for Torq. Multinational enterprises across the Fortune 500, including some of the world’s biggest financial, technology, consumer packaged goods, fashion, hospitality, and sports apparel companies are seeing extraordinary outcomes with Torq. This growth reflects significant enterprise traction across the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. I’m thrilled to build on those impressive achievements to create an even more powerful sales trajectory for Torq.”

Jeter joins Torq with a successful track record of building and leading marketing organizations through hyper-growth stages. In his previous role, Don was the SVP of Marketing at Pax8, where he developed the company’s disruptive brand strategy and built a world-class demand generation engine. During his tenure at Pax8, the company experienced explosive growth, scaling from 25 to more than 1,500 employees and surpassing $1B in annual recurring revenue. Before Pax8, Jeter held key sales and marketing roles at Veritas and Symantec.

“I’m excited to help Torq accelerate its incredible growth and revenue potential,” said Jeter. “Torq’s trajectory doesn’t surprise me. Historically, SOAR platforms have been complex and clunky. Torq is dramatically changing that. Customers want an easier way to orchestrate and automate security workflows. The Torq platform is uniquely positioned to deliver enterprise-grade security with an intuitive, consumer-level drag-and-drop user experience. Torq’s market prospects are immense and I look forward to harnessing its incredible momentum to take the company to the next level.”

Jeter will also spearhead a significant evolution of Torq’s MSP and MSSP strategy. He departs Pax8 on excellent terms, as he creates a new relationship for Torq with Pax8 that provides it with access to its enormous community of technology professionals.

“Torq has landed a creative genius and gifted leader in Don Jeter,” said Nick Heddy, Chief Commerce Officer, Pax8. “While we are sad to see him go, we look forward to partnering with him and the Torq leadership team to bring their innovative product to our community of 25,000 MSPs and MSSPs.”

About Torq
Torq is the cybersecurity force multiplier. Its comprehensive security automation platform unifies and automates the entire security stack to deliver unparalleled protection and productivity. Torq drives maximum value and efficiency from existing security investments. It supercharges security teams with powerful, easy-to-use no-code workflows that reduce manual tasks and integrate low-code and full-code tools, freeing security professionals from Fortune 100 Enterprises to cutting-edge startups to focus on higher-value strategic activities.

Media Contact:

MikeWorldWide (MWW) for Torq

Krista Couch

[email protected]

Torq, the security automation leader, today announced 800% revenue growth and 10X customer growth in its second year of operation in 2022, and  hitting the milestone of 1,000,000+ daily security automations. Torq also announced the Torq Advisory Board featuring global cybersecurity visionaries, and the appointment of Paulo Veloso, Vice President of Sales, Americas. Recently, Torq has also released critical industry-leading capabilities with the introduction of Parallel Execution and Torq Insights. In addition, Torq won myriad accolades across 2022, including being named to Forbes Israel’s Next Billion Dollar Startups list and being recognized as Global InfoSec Cybersecurity’s Startup of the Year.

“Torq moved from strength to strength in 2022 through critical new innovations and customer programs that precisely map to the expanding attack surface and the increasing necessity of maximizing the value of existing security stacks in this challenging economic environment,” said Ofer Smadari, CEO and co-founder, Torq. “Torq is truly transforming security automation for the better by enabling the broadest range of employees to take advantage of and play a key role in achieving optimal security postures.”

Major Customer Momentum

In 2022, Torq’s customer base expanded to include Agoda, Armis, Chipotle, Fiverr, HashiCorp, IronSource, Lemonade, Riskified, and Wiz, as well as Fortune 100 consumer packaged goods, fashion, financial, hospitality, and sports apparel companies. This growth reflects significant enterprise traction across the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. 

Torq Users Surpasses 1,000,000 Daily Security Automations

Torq users are now executing more than 1,000,000 daily security automations with its platform – a major milestone that underlines its customer velocity. The exponentially-expanding usage of Torq also reflects how its security automation approach uniquely enables teams of any size to quickly create, deploy, and iterate on automated responses to unpredictable security events.

Torq Advisory Board

Torq announced the formation of the Torq Advisory Board, a group of some of the world’s most respected cybersecurity professionals. The board is helping guide the company as it further expands its security automation offerings and capabilities, serves more and more global enterprises, and continues to integrate the majority of cybersecurity systems into its platform.

Members of the Torq Advisory Board include:

• Jason Chan, Former VP of Information Security, Netflix
• Talha Tariq, CISO, HashiCorp
• Yaron Slutzky, CISO, Agoda
• Bill McKinley, CISO, SigFig and former Head of Information Security at The New York Times

New Sales Leadership

Paulo Veloso, Vice President of Sales, Americas, is Torq’s latest executive team addition. Prior to Torq, Veloso led America Sales at Splunk, helmed strategic accounts for HP Enterprise, was responsible for LATAM sales at Thales E-Security, and served as executive Sales manager at Cipher. Veloso is focused on expanding Torq’s Americas customer and prospect bases, with an emphasis on enterprise deployments.

Torq Insights Drives Industry-Leading Analytics

In late 2022, Torq delivered its latest platform innovation with Torq Insights, a comprehensive reporting and analytics overlay that provides the operational data needed to consistently manage, monitor, and iteratively evolve the security automation stack, to ensure it’s providing maximum protection while driving optimal efficiency.

“Torq Insights shows me how actively my team is using the platform to improve our overall security posture and makes everyone’s lives easier and more productive,” said Phillip Tarrant, SOC Technical Manager, Compuquip. “It allows me to see my teammates’ progress with Torq by showing the value they’re getting out of it. The ‘total runs’ analytics capability is huge. It’s amazing to see that Torq is handling 80,000+ runs a week for Compuquip without a single hiccup.”

Torq Delivers on the Promise of Parallel Execution

Torq’s recently-introduced Parallel Execution capability is a significant evolution for no-code security automation that enables users to instantly create multiple branches within an automatic workflow, and handle each concurrently before seamlessly merging back into a single flow. While some SOAR platforms claim to support parallel processing, these solutions require massive engineering efforts to deploy. 

Torq now offers true no-code parallel computing, to provide easier workflow design, adaptable iterating, and more powerful execution, which security teams have long asked for. Now, teams can focus on actual security responses without sacrificing precious time and resources to develop the workflows that deliver them.

New Tel Aviv Office Presence

In 2022, Torq opened a three-floor, state-of-the-art office in the heart of Tel Aviv, Israel. The office is designed to expand as Torq’s staff and operations continue scaling during the next several years. It includes a customer visitor center, comprehensive R&D facilities, and extensive collaborative environments designed to harness and channel the company’s collective energy as it solves critical customer security challenges.

Torq Racks Up Industry Awards

Torq is proud to have won many prestigious awards across 2022, including being named one of the top-10 most innovative startup companies by the RSA Conference; the Cybersecurity Excellence gold award for No-Code Security Automation; the BIG Fortress Cybersecurity Award for Incident Response; Duns 100 Best Start-Up Companies to Work for Over 100 Employees Award; and Global Infosec’s Cybersecurity Startup of the Year award. Torq was also named to Forbes Israel’s Next Billion Dollar Startups list and Qumra Capital’s Tomorrow’s Growth Companies list.

About Torq

Torq is the cybersecurity force multiplier. Its comprehensive security automation platform unifies and automates the entire security stack to deliver unparalleled protection and productivity. Torq drives maximum value and efficiency from existing security investments. It supercharges security teams with powerful, easy-to-use no-code workflows that reduce manual tasks and integrate low-code and full-code tools, freeing security professionals from Fortune 100 Enterprises to cutting-edge startups to focus on higher-value strategic activities.

Media Contact:
MikeWorldWide (MWW) for Torq
Krista Couch
[email protected]

Josh Morris, our Senior Vice President of Global Sales, joined Torq earlier this year in February. Josh has worked for several industry-leading cybersecurity organizations throughout his career, and most recently served as Group Vice President at Splunk. From hyperautomation to home life, Josh shares how he finds balance in his day. 

What’s your morning routine? 

My alarm goes off bright and early at 5am ET. Ideally, my day starts with weightlifting at the gym. After that, I head home to prepare for calls with our headquarters in Tel Aviv. Even though each day is different, my mornings always consist of meetings. In addition to customer and partner meetings, I have 1-on-1s with my team early in the week. It’s important to me to meet with my team weekly to make sure everyone is excelling professionally. Not to mention, it gives us time to get in our virtual “water cooler talk” as well. 

What happens once you finish your morning meetings? 

A- I usually skip breakfast, so after my first round of meetings I grab a bite to eat. Then, I lock in for another block of meetings. There are a lot of exciting new initiatives in the pipeline. It’s been all hands on deck with our BDR team, our new channel team, and our go-to-market team to bring new innovations to life. 

It’s lunch time! What’s your go-to? 

BBQ is hands-down my favorite meal. A little-known fact about our employees at Torq is that a lot of us are passionate about BBQ. In fact, our Co-Founder and CTO, Leonid Belkind made a Slack channel called “Smoking and Grilling Meats.” If I have leftovers from the night before, I’ll throw them in my Sous Vide at approximately 95 degrees to prevent overcooking. 

What are things you do to give yourself a competitive edge?  

A non-negotiable for me during the week is to block time on my calendar to be what I call a “student of the game.” This time is dedicated to learning and personal development. It could be about learning more about our competition, or bettering myself on leadership, learning, and positive thinking. I also block out time to ensure I’m reaching out or following up with our customers, prospects, and partners to stay connected.

How do you find balance in your life?  

Achieving balance in my life has come with being disciplined with time management. I’m very disciplined with my calendar and efficient with my day, so that I can be present with my family in the evening.

Do you have any productivity hacks or favorite apps for work? 

Two things that help me with my productivity are note taking and writing to-do lists. I find it very satisfying to cross stuff off on paper, as opposed to keeping a digital checklist. My favorite app is Grammarly. It’ll highlight your mistakes as you go, which I find very helpful.

What are some things you enjoy as a family? 

As a family of six, we’re always on the go. Just like work, every day is different for my family. Last night my daughter had a lacrosse game at 9:40pm, so we were there late supporting her. As a family, we love spending time outdoors together,  we enjoy going boating or fishing. We went fishing before the 4th of July and caught a bunch of porgies. We caught them, fileted them, and threw them on the BBQ. My idea of the perfect meal.