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. 

Security automation is an increasingly critical element in optimizing enterprise cybersecurity postures. Today, Torq announced its users are executing more than 1,000,000 daily security automations using our security automation platform – a major milestone that underlines the traction and importance of unifying today’s complex security stacks. The exponentially-expanding usage of Torq also reflects the current macroeconomic climate, in which security leaders are being asked to maximize the value of their existing security infrastructure, as well as ensure staff are focused on higher-level management and critical incident response.

Torq’s modern security automation approach is helping security teams address these priorities, allowing teams of any size to quickly create, deploy, and iterate on automated responses to otherwise-unpredictable events.

Introducing Torq Insights

A key element of the Torq platform is our latest innovation: Torq Insights. It’s 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.

From Automated Processes to Automation Programs

First-generation SOARs were introduced to the market as a way to add repeatability and predictability to security operations. While powerful, these platforms are difficult to deploy and generally designed only for a few threat response use cases. The need for more effective security automation remained.

Recognizing the gap between SOAR platforms and the need for more universal security automation, solution providers have begun to offer limited automation functionality within their platforms. The result is still piecemeal automation, only exacerbated by disparate approaches and processes. 

While there may be more automation than ever, Torq believes quality and efficiency has suffered. To truly realize the benefits of security automation, Torq closes these gaps by consolidating automation efforts, lowering the technical barriers to automated workflows, and now providing the analytical feedback necessary to truly optimize security automation. As a result, our users are benefiting from:

• Increased predictability of security responses
• Maximum benefits from the tools they’ve already invested in
• A clear set of data that helps teams improve overall security efficiency
• A solution powerful enough for the most complex threat responses, yet easy enough to deploy that it can be used for the smallest of repetitive security tasks

“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 80.8K runs a week for Compuquip without a single hiccup.”

A New Standard for Automation Management

Torq Insights is available to all Torq users. Current users can now simply click on “Insights” above the Workflows page in the app. With Torq Insights, users can instantly find data like total time saved by automated workflows, how many workflows are in production at a given time, and the most active workflows, among other information.

Security automation analytics with Torq Insights

Users will soon be able to assess their automation programs against common security frameworks, compare performance and effectiveness of internal use cases, and align to industry best practices, all while integrating with wider business intelligence reporting.

Get Access to Advanced Automation Insights Today

Existing Torq users can use the new dashboard right away. 

If you haven’t had a chance to see the platform in action, get in touch for a free trial account and put Torq to work for your team.

Torq is proud to announce the immediate general availability of its no-code security solution in AWS Marketplace, the curated digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Torq’s presence on AWS Marketplace streamlines and shortens the procurement process to handle the exponentially-increasing demand for our solution serving Fortune 500 enterprises to fast-growing medium-sized companies and small innovative businesses across every industry vertical.

Our availability on the AWS Marketplace, as well as private offers, provide Torq the flexibility to customize our offering for AWS-based cloud-native customers, while ensuring the smoothest purchase and deployment processes possible. This reduces overhead and complexity for Torq and its customers alike.

A new Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study found that by using AWS Marketplace, organizations experience three key benefits:

• An improved vendor onboarding process, resulting in a 75% reduction in onboarding efforts for new vendors
• Reduced time processing invoices, leading to a 66% reduction in time spent due to procurement efficiencies
• Increased licensing flexibility, leading to a 10% reduction in licensing costs

With Torq in AWS Marketplace, it has never been easier for customers to rapidly access and implement our industry-leading solution to ensure the strongest security posture possible against all cyberthreats.

Learn more and purchase Torq in AWS Marketplace

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Torq is extremely proud to announce the formation of the Torq Advisory Board, a group of some of the world’s most respected cybersecurity professionals, including several industry-leading CISOs and heads of information security. All of our advisors have made major impacts in cybersecurity for their companies, and for the industry at large. They have strongly advocated leveraging cutting edge technologies to drive greater effectiveness and productivity across organizational cybersecurity ecosystems, positively impacting systems, processes, and people.

Our Advisory Board is helping guide Torq as we further expand our Security Automation offerings and capabilities, serve more and more global enterprises, and continue to integrate the majority of cybersecurity systems into our platform.

Members of the Torq Advisory Board include:

Jason Chan, Former VP of Information Security, Netflix

Jason has more than 20 years of experience working in cybersecurity, including adopting security automation, cloud security, and enhancing security in modern software development practices. Jason’s most recent career experience was leading the information security organization at the video streaming behemoth Netflix for more than a decade. His Netflix team set the bar extraordinarily high, focusing on sophisticated risk assessment and management, and compliance management strategies and approaches. 

Talha Tariq, CISO, HashiCorp

In his role at HashiCorp, Talha is responsible for protecting the security of his company, customers, and partners as it provisions, secures, connects, and runs cloud infrastructure for their most important applications. He has 15 years of experience building and scaling security programs from startups to Fortune 100 organizations. Prior to HashiCorp, Talha served as CISO at Anki where he was responsible for corporate information security, product and application security, privacy engineering, security operations, and incident response. Talha also served as Director of Security Consulting at PwC, advising clients across a range of industries on matters related to data breaches, hacking events, security program development, and threat assessments.

Yaron Slutzky, CISO, Agoda

Yaron is responsible for security at Agoda, one of the world’s fastest growing-online travel booking platforms. From its beginnings as an e-commerce start-up based in Singapore in 2005, Agoda has grown to offer a global network of two million properties in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. It provides travelers with easy access to a wide choice of luxury and budget hotels, apartments, homes, and villas. Headquartered in Singapore, Agoda is part of Booking Holdings and employs more than 4,000 staff in more than 30 countries. Prior to Agoda, Yaron was CISO at Cellcom, and Information Technology Director at Numark Innovations. 

Bill McKinley, CISO, SigFig and former Head of Information Security at The New York Times

Bill serves as CISO for SigFig, an enterprise financial technology firm that develops next-generation products for financial institutions, advisors, and their customers. Through its partnerships with financial institutions including Wells Fargo, UBS, and Citizens Financial, SigFig’s wealth management tool is available to over 70 million consumers. Prior to SigFig, Bill was Head of Information Security at The New York Times, Vice-President of Infrastructure Engineering at AllianceBernstein, and Senior Infrastructure Engineer Team Lead at JP Morgan.

We are also very fortunate to have Stephen Ward, Managing Director at Insight Partners, as part of our board of directors.

At Insight Partners, Stephen focuses on investments in cybersecurity. Prior to joining Insight, Stephen was CISO at The Home Depot, where he provided progressive direction over cybersecurity and technology risk. He is also a Board Member at Mimecast and served on the board of Cloudknox, which was recently sold to Microsoft. His innovative approach has led to malware-related patented technology and he has received award recognition from his industry peers in cybersecurity. Stephen has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, physical security, fraud and technology risk acquired throughout his career in both the public sector (U.S. Secret Service) and the private sector (JPMorgan Chase and TIAA).

It’s a real honor and privilege to be working with these cybersecurity luminaries and to have them advise Torq as we further deliver on our incredible potential to customers, partners, and investors. We’re looking forward to further collaboration with them all in the years ahead as we take Torq to even greater heights of success.

We’re extremely happy to announce that Torq has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment.

The CSA has more than 80,000 members worldwide and has been endorsed by the American Presidential Administration, which selected the CSA Summit as the venue for announcing the federal government’s cloud computing strategy. It also collaborates with global policy makers to support and evolve key cloud security initiatives, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the European Commission.

Torq is proud to collaborate with the CSA going forward, and work with its large-scale community of  industry practitioners, associations, governments, and corporate and individual members as it evolves the no-code security automation space, and introduces critical innovations in the coming months and years. Torq will also benefit from the CSA’s cloud security-specific research, education, training, certification, and events.

We are proud to be part of the CSA’s mission to create and maintain a global, trusted cloud ecosystem with positive, forward-looking outcomes for its members, customers, and the world at large alike.

With visibility and transparency top of mind, we display the CSA logo in our Trust Center alongside our other key compliance certifications, which include ISO 27001 and SOC 2.

To learn more about the CSA, please visit: cloudsecurityalliance.org