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Doug Merritt

Chief Executive Officer

Doug Merritt is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Aviatrix. Most recently, Doug served as Splunk President and CEO from 2015 to 2021. During his tenure as CEO, Doug led the transformation of Splunk from an on premise, perpetual license software company with the equivalent of $220 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), to a cloud-based SaaS company with ARR of $3.12 billion. In his first year at Splunk, Doug served as the Senior Vice President of Splunk’s go-to-market functions including sales, marketing, support, business development, partners, and other customer facing functions.

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Chris Hughes: Not Prevention, But Resiliency
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Chris Hughes: Not Prevention, But Resiliency

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- CVEs are exploding — over 40,000 in 2025, with 2026 projections near 60,000 (some estimates up to 100,000) — while AI makes vulnerabilities easier to find and exploit. - Patching capacity has long lagged below 10% of the backlog; broken production risk and competing business priorities keep it there. - Security should shift from trying to prevent every incident to containing and recovering from the ones that happen. - "Human in the loop" doesn't scale against AI-driven attack volume — defenders need to fight AI with AI. - Security teams that act as collaborators, not blockers, avoid the shadow-IT workarounds that punitive policies create.

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