What is the best tech company, and why?

Best tech, since I have two blue stripes on my left arm and a third on the right side, I would have to say IBM is best.

I definitely get to see a lot of cool technologies at our clients.  As a career security professional, I love seeing companies that take a different approach to security monitoring and management. As an unrelaetd aside, my current favorite technology company would have to be Anova. They make the electronic Sous Vide devices that you can cook with. The Anova Sous Vide, it's wireless now. You look up a recipe, you say, "This is what I want to make. It turns it on, gets the water to the right temperature, sends you alerts when things are done and so forth. So pretty cool stuff.

It's hard to say. I moved up here in the late '90s dot com era, when someone asks me what is the best tech company, I'm like, "Yahoo." Now I'm like, "Nah, I don't know." That's really the answer. But if I had to pick, I'd say LinkedIn when Jeff was the CEO. Definitely one of my most admired leaders out there... most admired companies. I’ve seen him talk a bunch of times and always been really, really impressed with what he had to say. I'd put him up there on my most admired list.

My favorite technology right now is from DJI. I just got one of their Mavic 2 Pro drones. These guys have thought of everything. I didn't know some of the features that were in this thing and I've researched drones to kingdom come. There's this little light on the bottom of the drone, so that it can pick up the ground and know, spatially, where it is, when it's coming in to land. I'm really impressed with DJI's technology. I haven't fully put the drone through its paces yet, but I'm excited for some of the follow-me sorts of things that the drone will do. It's got a spotlight feature so that it will stay out in front and it will move around and keep the subject in line. It seems to do a really good job based on the YouTube videos that I've seen.

In terms of the best tech company I can relate to, especially this comes from one of the biggest pain points that I had before I moved into Collective Health, is the open source. I was looking for something which is more developer centric. If you're a security professional, one thing you would see is there's a lot of friction with broader engineering org. If you don't actually get to the people who are actually executing on the risks that you identified, you're not really getting the job done. For me, that was the topmost criteria before going into that open source space.

I found a company called Snyk. They deliver a pretty good product. They have a number of services within their platform. They're in the process of building this comprehensive model of doing everything in terms of open source security and product security, and provide that as a service. That's the best tech company I can think of, at least at this time. That keeps evolving.