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S11 E26: Fusing Statistical Modeling with Agentic AI to Silence False Positives and Dominate SaaS Attack Surfaces with Marco Rodrigues, Co-Founder & Head of Customer Engineering at Exaforce
Nov 18, 2025 · Season 11 · Episode 26 · 27 min
Agentic SOC platform, solving the overload of data & tooling
Marco Rodrigues was born and raised in Canada, but now lives in the Bay Area. His tech genesis was around the time when the internet came out, when he spent an entire summer indoors, worrying his mother. He eventually attended university in Toronto, and went to work for Juniper Networks. Past that, he went towards the startup world - running product teams, and taking part in the ownership and selling of solutions and service offerings. Outside of tech, he is married with twin girls in the Naval Cadet Core. He is a big hockey nut, rooting for the Edmonton Oilers, and enjoys taking his kids to hockey rinks all over the world.
Marco spent many years watching his teams drown in data and tooling. The situations were more complex, but the outcomes weren't getting better. He started to consider the advent of AI, and asked the question - how do we solve these sorts of problems with an agentic SOC platform?
This is the creation story of Exaforce.
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