Exabeam appoints Craig Patterson as SVP of Global Channels & Marketing. Five-time CRN Channel Chief will align marketing and partner strategy as Exabeam scales the Agent Behavior Analytics category it created Exabeam, a leader in Behavior Intelligence for the agentic enterprise, announced that Craig Patterson has been named SVP of Global Channels & Marketing, reporting to CEO Pete Harteveld. A member of the company's executive leadership team, Patterson retains leadership of the global partner ecosystem he has led since joining Exabeam in 2025 and assumes leadership of the entire marketing organization, including brand, messaging, demand generation, communications, field marketing, and account development. The expanded role more closely aligns Exabeam's marketing and channel strategies as the company scales a new security category. Agent Behavior Analytics (ABA) extends behavioral detection beyond human users to AI agents and machine identities operating inside the enterprise, which increasingly have access to the same systems and data as human users. ABA baselines each agent's normal pattern of activity and flags the ones that drift from it. The shift in how security is bought is structural. Omdia found that 92% of global cybersecurity spending flowed through the channel in Q4 2025, a materially higher share than technology overall, where partners account for roughly two-thirds of IT spend. In security, partners are no longer simply a route to market. They increasingly shape how customers discover, evaluate and adopt new technologies. New categories are won through education, and in security that education happens through partners. Exabeam generates most of its revenue through its partner ecosystem, and the expanded role is intended to align how the company builds demand with how its customers learn, evaluate, and buy. Under Patterson, partner considerations will be integrated into brand, messaging and demand generation from the outset rather than treated as a separate go-to-market motion. "Our partners play a critical role in how customers find us, evaluate us and decide to buy," said Pete Harteveld, CEO of Exabeam. "We created this category, and partners will be critical to how we scale it. Aligning marketing and channels under Craig's leadership means we can build that partner perspective into our strategy from day one. Craig challenges the status quo, and that is exactly why we gave him this." Since joining Exabeam, Patterson has led the integration of the Exabeam and LogRhythm partner organizations following one of cybersecurity's most significant mergers, and architected the Exabeam APEX Partner Program, a competency-based global framework that rewards partner capability rather than deal volume. In CRN's 2026 Annual Report Card, Exabeam swept the AI Security category, taking first place across all four subcategories, with partners scoring the company 98.3 for ease of doing business. "New categories aren't built through a vendor's website alone," said Patterson. "Customers adopt them when someone they trust can explain why they matter, and in security that trusted voice is often a partner. Bringing demand and channel closer together gives us a better way to build that understanding at scale." Patterson has spent more than two decades building go-to-market engines in cybersecurity and technology. Before Exabeam, he served as SVP of Global Sales and GlobalChannel Chief at Aryaka and led global post-merger integration at Level 3 and CenturyLink. He is a five-time CRN Channel Chief and was named to CRN's 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs in 2026. He was named Channel Futures Channel Influencer of the Year in 2023 and to CRN's Top 100 Executives in 2026. About Exabeam. Exabeam is the leader in Behavior Intelligence for the agentic enterprise. As organizations deploy digital workers and confront machine-speed adversaries, Exabeam applies agent-powered analytics to understand and govern the behavior of both human and non-human insiders. With integrated Exabeam Nova cybersecurity agents, Exabeam delivers flexible, industry-proven solutions for insider threat coverage of humans and agents and faster, more accurate threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR). As the pioneer of user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and the innovator behind Agent Behavior Analytics (ABA), Exabeam is trusted by more than 3,000 enterprises worldwide to reduce risk, secure the digital workforce, and accelerate security operations.

Exabeam expands Craig Patterson's role to SVP of Global Channels & Marketing. Sep 21, 2026 - 12:34 Patterson assumes leadership of the entire marketing organization, including brand, messaging, demand generation, communications, field marketing, and account developmen Exabeam, a leader in Behavior Intelligence for the agentic enterprise, today announced that Craig Patterson has been named SVP of Global Channels & Marketing, reporting to CEO Pete Harteveld. A member of the company's executive leadership team, Patterson retains leadership of the global partner ecosystem he has led since joining Exabeam in 2025 and assumes leadership of the entire marketing organization, including brand, messaging, demand generation, communications, field marketing, and account development. The expanded role more closely aligns Exabeam's marketing and channel strategies as the company scales a new security category. Agent Behavior Analytics (ABA) extends behavioral detection beyond human users to AI agents and machine identities operating inside the enterprise, which increasingly have access to the same systems and data as human users. ABA baselines each agent's normal pattern of activity and flags the ones that drift from it. "New categories aren't built through a vendor's website alone. Customers adopt them when someone they trust can explain why they matter, and in security that trusted voice is often a partner. Bringing demand and channel closer together gives us a better way to build that understanding at scale." - Craig Patterson, SVP - Global Channels & Marketing, Exabeam The shift in how security is bought is structural. Omdia found that 92% of global cybersecurity spending flowed through the channel in Q4 2025, a materially higher share than technology overall, where partners account for roughly two-thirds of IT spend. In security, partners are no longer simply a route to market. They increasingly shape how customers discover, evaluate and adopt new technologies. New categories are won through education, and in security that education happens through partners. Exabeam generates most of its revenue through its partner ecosystem, and the expanded role is intended to align how the company builds demand with how its customers learn, evaluate, and buy. Under Patterson, partner considerations will be integrated into brand, messaging and demand generation from the outset rather than treated as a separate go-to-market motion. "We created this category, and partners will be critical to how we scale it. Aligning marketing and channels under Craig's leadership means we can build that partner perspective into our strategy from day one. Craig challenges the status quo, and that is exactly why we gave him this." - Pete Harteveld, CEO of Exabeam "Our partners play a critical role in how customers find us, evaluate us and decide to buy," said Pete Harteveld, CEO of Exabeam. "We created this category, and partners will be critical to how we scale it. Aligning marketing and channels under Craig's leadership means we can build that partner perspective into our strategy from day one. Craig challenges the status quo, and that is exactly why we gave him this." Since joining Exabeam, Patterson has led the integration of the Exabeam and LogRhythm partner organizations following one of cybersecurity's most significant mergers, and architected the Exabeam APEX Partner Program, a competency-based global framework that rewards partner capability rather than deal volume. In CRN's 2026 Annual Report Card, Exabeam swept the AI Security category, taking first place across all four subcategories, with partners scoring the company 98.3 for ease of doing business. "New categories aren't built through a vendor's website alone," said Patterson. "Customers adopt them when someone they trust can explain why they matter, and in security that trusted voice is often a partner. Bringing demand and channel closer together gives us a better way to build that understanding at scale." Patterson has spent more than two decades building go-to-market engines in cybersecurity and technology. Before Exabeam, he served as SVP of Global Sales and Global Channel Chief at Aryaka and led global post-merger integration at Level 3 and CenturyLink. He is a five-time CRN Channel Chief and was named to CRN's 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs in 2026. He was named Channel Futures Channel Influencer of the Year in 2023 and to CRN's Top 100 Executives in 2026.

Google backs Exabeam for Unified Security. August 27, 2026 Google named Exabeam a Google Unified Security Recommended partner. Google launched this program in 2025 with three inaugural members: CrowdStrike, Fortinet and Wiz. Since then, Google has reportedly added Palo Alto Networks, with Exabeam now expected to join the list. This designation recognizes the strength of combining Exabeam New-Scale Analytics with Google Security Operations. Google SecOps' cloud-native security operations platform empowers security teams to better detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. Exabeam extends Google SecOps with behavioural intelligence, enabling faster insider threat detection, investigation, and response. The Exabeam solution connects directly with Google Security Operations data, enabling users to work within a single integrated view. With Exabeam, users identify patterns and react faster to risks that remain hidden when viewing individual events. Using integrated data sharing, analysts apply Exabeam's behavioural intelligence to a wider dataset. This helps identify actual issues, flag false positives early and saves time on diagnosis. Pete Harteveld, CEO of Exabeam, commented, "Being named a Google Unified Security Recommended partner reflects the strength of our collaboration with Google Cloud and the value we deliver together for customers. "Security teams are struggling with alert overload. What they're missing is insight into the behaviors that represent real risk to their enterprise. Our work with Google Cloud brings this behavioral intelligence directly into Google Security Operations, helping customers identify abnormal activity in the context of behavior across both human users and AI agents." Unified solution. Both platforms run on Google Cloud, allowing security teams to share data without incurring egress charges. This removes the need to move data into a separate analytics environment and reduces operational complexity. The integration offers several additional benefits: * Accelerate TDIR workflows: Exabeam validation testing showed organizations accelerating TDIR workflows by up to 80%. * Detect insider risk earlier: Apply New-Scale Analytics to Google Security Operations data to identify high-risk activity across users, entities, service accounts, and AI agents. * Reduce analytics complexity: Use integrated data sharing to apply Behaviour Intelligence to data already in Google Security Operations without maintaining a separate analytics environment. * Available on Google Cloud Marketplace: Procure Exabeam New-Scale Analytics through Google Cloud Marketplace, where eligible purchases can apply toward existing Google Cloud spend commitments. * Secure both users and agents: Extend coverage to AI agents by analysing Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Model Armor activity alongside user behaviour, behavioural analytics, dynamic risk scoring, and agent-powered TDIR workflows to detect risky human and non-human identity activity. Securing AI agents is more important than ever. AI agents can now work across apps, tools, data and business processes. That makes them useful, but it also makes them harder to monitor. Google describes Google Unified Security as an AI-infused approach. It uses Gemini and threat intelligence to support security workflows at scale. While individual agent actions often resemble human behaviour and appear low-risk, significant concerns remain. Chen et al, in How Your Credentials Are Leaked by LLM Agent Skills: An Empirical Study (June 2026), found several examples. The study identified a cumulative risk: 73.5% of vulnerabilities stemmed from debug logging. Individually, a log statement is benign. However, when an agent executes 100+ tool invocations, and each logs a token, the cumulative exposure becomes a data exfiltration channel. It also identified that 89.6% of the affected agent skills were exploitable during routine execution without elevated privileges. Thus, proving that "normal" behaviour can still leak credentials when viewed as a sequence. Addressing the agentic challenge. Exabeam states its New-Scale Analytics adds behavioural analytics, dynamic risk scoring, and AI-powered investigations to Google Security Operations. The Exabeam solution integrates with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Model Armor to mitigate this risk. * Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform helps organisations build, manage and govern enterprise AI agents. In this context, it provides activity signals that can be reviewed alongside other security data. * Model Armor gives teams more information about large language model activity, including prompts and responses, so that this activity can be assessed as part of security monitoring. Those signals can help security teams see how agents behave, which systems they use and where unusual activity may appear. Exabeam analyses this activity in New-Scale Fusion alongside user behaviour. It designed its New-Scale Analytics product to learn normal activity, apply risk scores, and highlight activity that needs investigation. Exabeam also says its Nova cybersecurity agents can support threat detection, investigation and response workflows by adding behavioural context and helping analysts prioritise work. Dr. Andre Alfred, Sr. Director, Cloud Security Threat Operations, Google Cloud, stated, "As organizations shift toward AI-driven security, operations and autonomous agents, open interoperability across the technology stack is vital. "The Google Unified Security Recommended program creates deep technical collaboration with market-leading security vendors to minimize integration overhead, enabling security teams to focus on outcomes rather than complexity. We're excited to welcome Exabeam to the Google Unified Security Recommended program to help customers strengthen their defenses with unified, AI-driven protection." Enterprise times: what does this mean. Using Exabeam's new scale analytics, security teams can better leverage its behavioural intelligence to spot anomalous patterns from both humans and agents. With agents now capable of performing many more tasks than humans, it is critical that organisations have the ability to track, monitor and analyse events faster than ever before. Using Exabeam and Google SecOps, teams can benchmark normal behaviour and better detect and identify anomalies. No matter how small, that signal compromised accounts, malicious insiders, or risky AI agent behaviour. Security teams can now better identify evolving trends and patterns through the platform. They can react faster and mitigate risks as they emerge. Google Security Operations customers can access Exabeam New-Scale Analytics through Google Cloud Marketplace, where eligible purchases count toward existing Google Cloud spend commitments.