Umesh Mahajan
VP and GM, Application Networking and Security Division · Broadcom
Position Evolution
3 tracked across this operator's appearancesSame operator, on the record, on the same topic, at different points in time. Each delta below is anchored to verbatim transcript spans verified against source — no paraphrases. This is the alumni-graph moat: SemiAnalysis cannot reproduce this query because they don't have the speaker-stable corpus.
Lateral security over perimeter firewalls
Hardenedconfidence 85%The earlier interview treated segmentation as one prescriptive step among three. The later interview makes a full technical argument for why perimeter firewalls are structurally insufficient, elevating lateral/distributed security from a best practice to a categorical necessity with detailed reasoning.
"you reduce your tax surface by doing zoning or macro- segmentation. That again is easy. Production is separate from development, is separate from DMZ."
Source on theCUBE ↗"Absolutely you need lateral security. And perimeter firewall also doesn't have the visibility because when a packet gets in, going a little technical, when a packet comes in north south, it multiplies many times because an application is not a single instance, it's many VMs or many Kubernetes workloads."
Source on theCUBE ↗AI-assisted firewall rule generation
Hardenedconfidence 82%In the earlier appearance Mahajan described AI/ML rule generation as a deployment accelerator. By the later appearance he had shipped a GenAI copilot and expanded the use case to alert triage and NTA/NDR analytics, showing the concept moved from roadmap to released product with broader scope.
"we are doing a lot of work in the product itself, ask a few simple questions, use some AI / ML techniques, and then come up with the firewall rules in a step- wise manner so that they can get deployed."
Source on theCUBE ↗"How do you come up with firewall rules? But suddenly GenAI comes around. So our first use of GenAI, we've decided, okay, for the most complicated security, right? NTA NDR, behavioral analytics, there you can generate hundreds of alerts. So how do you crunch them down to a few alerts so that some human can make sense out of them?"
Source on theCUBE ↗Security staff productivity constraints
Shiftedconfidence 75%Earlier the focus was on compressing deployment timelines as the primary staffing problem. Later the framing shifted to ongoing operational productivity, acknowledging that understaffing is a permanent condition rather than a one-time deployment hurdle, which broadens the product value proposition.
"instead of customers taking years, we think they can, within weeks and months, they can get it completely deployed."
Source on theCUBE ↗"I haven't met a customer who said, "I have security which was sitting idle." So how do we make them very, very productive?"
Source on theCUBE ↗All theCUBE appearances (4)
VMware Explore 2024 | Umesh Mahajan | Broadcom
GUEST · Broadcom · VP and GM, Application Networking and Security Division
RSAC Conference 2025 | Umesh Mahajan & Prashant Gandhi, Broadcom
GUEST · Broadcom · VP & GM, Application Networking & Security Division
RSAC 2026 Conference | Umesh Mahajan & Prashant Gandhi, Division, Broadcom
GUEST · Broadcom · VP & GM, Application Networking & Security Division
VMware Explore 2025 | Umesh Mahajan, Broadcom & Gillon Helman, Cole Engineering
GUEST · Broadcom · VP & GM, Application Networking & Security Division