Andrew Houchin is a Senior Sales Engineer at Illumio with 15 years of cybersecurity experience in both corporate and vendor environments. He brings a unique perspective to cybersecurity challenges, having served as a Database Security SME during a major enterprise data breach, giving him firsthand insight into large-scale breach incidents.  Andrew has worked with hundreds of organizations facing evolving cyber threats, including supporting incident response teams with microsegmentation tooling for faster environment recovery and breach containment. He offers a experienced view on why traditional cybersecurity spending isn't winning the war against sophisticated threats, and how attack surface reduction can shift the balance back to defenders.