Matt Duench | Source | Senior Director of Product Marketing at Okta
Matt Duench
An accomplished Product Marketing and Technology leader, Matt has extensive global marketing experience - having done business directly in more than 40 countries - across Cyber Security, Telecom, Financial Services, and IoT industries.
Matt is passionate about helping customers find solutions to everyday challenges, especially those that help to close the gap on cyber risk.
He has a proven track record of building and leading highly-functioning Product Marketing teams to develop and execute strong positioning, go-to-market messaging, solution marketing, and other foundational programs (market entry, competitive intelligence, sales enablement) at scale, that drive clear results. At his previous and current companies, this scale helped to drive:
Auth0 - Acquired by $OKTA for $6.5 Billion
Arctic Wolf - Raised a $200M series E round, and $150M Series F round for a $4.3B valuation
Miovision - Raised $120M through a series D round
Sandvine - Publicly-traded company on the TSX, before being acquired by Francisco Partners in 2017 for $562M
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Okta
Senior Director of Product Marketing
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Defending Against Generative AI Cyber Threats
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT pose a cybersecurity risk because they enable someone with little or no skills or knowledge to potentially develop exploits and cyberattacks. However, an attack is an attack and generative AI does not fundamentally change the cybersecurity game.
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AI has proven to be very capable of rendering human-like copy and live dialog via chat. In the past, phishing campaigns have been thwarted by looking for poor grammar, spelling, or general anomalies you wouldn’t expect to see from a native speaker. As AI enables advanced phishing emails and chatbots to exist with a higher degree of realism, it’s even more important that we embrace phishing-resistant factors, like passkeys.
