Fermin J. Serna

Databricks' CSO - Previously: Citrix's CISO, Semmle's CSO, Google's Head of Product Security, MSFT, entrepreneur. Real Madrid supporter. All opinions my own.

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

Big news! Super proud to be part of this rocket ship democratizing data+ai

[Databricks @databricks]

We’re proud to announce our Series I funding round led by @TRowePrice, with new strategic investor @nvidia, and new investors @CapitalOne Ventures and @OTPPinfo! This funding will accelerate our innovations in #generativeAI.

Learn more ⬇️
https://t.co/lrucmIsVO2

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

Big news! @databricks agreed to acquire @MosaicML to democratize even further DATA + AI. Build your own models/LLMs on a cost effective and secure way.

[Databricks AI Research @DbrxMosaicAI]

Today, we’re excited to share that MosaicML has agreed to join @Databricks!

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

@databricks 3/3 @databricks is hosting the Data + AI Summit Jun/26-29 and our security team will be there to engage with you.

Virtual and on site registration here: https://t.co/IAog3lqwfK

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

1/3 Lately, I have been talking to so many CISOs and their security teams. There is a clear trend. While Data security is generally well understood, AI security is not. Security teams are catching up on MLops, model training, training datasets, model serving, ...

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

2/3 @databricks has gone through this already and we have a very good understanding of the field. Happy to help!

Are you curious about Data + AI security? What about model generation and serving security best practices? What about security use cases for Generation AI and LLMs?

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

Say no to racism or any other type of discrimination! @vinijr you are an inspiration to many. Baila Vini, baila!

[Vini Jr. @vinijr]

LOS AMO!!! GRACIAS, GRACIAS Y GRACIAS! ✊🏿🙏🏾

[Ali Ghodsi @alighodsi]

Excited to launch the first two #LLM MOOC courses with @edXOnline. Learn about prompt engineering, vector embeddings, retrieval, chains, and MLOps. Learn how to create your own LLM from scratch on a data lakehouse!
https://t.co/VMjtBbrIJd

[Lindsay Life @lindsayklife]

Two weeks after we first introduced Dolly, we're back with more: @databricks releases Dolly 2.0, the first open, instruction-following large language model for commercial use https://t.co/bf1vaTWRiH via @VentureBeat @sharongoldman tip @Techmeme

[Mike Conover @vagabondjack]

I can’t tell which I’m more excited about, Dolly 2.0 or the fact that we’re giving away the 15k instruction tuning records, created by thousands of Databricks employees in the last two weeks, we used to train it.

Free and licensed for commercial use! 🐑

https://t.co/tVWUknnHqY

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

Free Dolly! With a true open data set for others to build on top. Game changer

[Ali Ghodsi @alighodsi]

Free Dolly! Introducing the first *commercially viable*, open source, instruction-following LLM. Dolly 2.0 is available for commercial applications without having to pay for API access or sharing data with 3rd parties. https://t.co/HtRVSmArFU

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

@DaniCeballos46 Ceballos quedate! Crack!

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

Great read, congrats @wiz_io team!

[Hillai Ben-Sasson @hillai]

I hacked into a @Bing CMS that allowed me to alter search results and take over millions of @Office365 accounts.
How did I do it? Well, it all started with a simple click in @Azure… 👀
This is the story of #BingBang 🧵⬇️

[Hillai Ben-Sasson @hillai]

I hacked into a @Bing CMS that allowed me to alter search results and take over millions of @Office365 accounts.
How did I do it? Well, it all started with a simple click in @Azure… 👀
This is the story of #BingBang 🧵⬇️

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

There is a very big difference between B2C and B2B in regards to customer reaction and company viability post breach

[Travis McPeak @travismcpeak]

There is a long history of people not caring about breaches and the stock price recovers (and even outperforms) within X months. Customers just don’t care about security usually. I wonder if things will be different for Lastpass this time…

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

This is a great thread. I cannot agree more with the "leave your egos apart, focus on survival not on valuation"

[Tom Loverro @tomloverro]

PREDICTION: There's a mass extinction event coming for early & mid-stage companies. Late '23 & '24 will make the '08 financial crisis look quaint for startups. Below I explain when, why & how it will start & offer *detailed advice to founders* on surviving the looming die-off. /1

[Erling Haaland @Erling]

Everything you see any player doing, Pelé did it first. RIP ⚽️🤴🏿

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

@databricks Unity Catalog's data lineage is probably one of my favorite features.

Understanding where the data is coming from and then setting policies based on source is a killer feature.

It can only happen with a unified lakehouse platform

https://t.co/VzMNh8FkeW

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Matt Mochary has been CEO coach to @naval, the founders of OpenAI, Notion, Rippling, Robinhood, Coinbase, Reddit, Plaid, Flexport, Opendoor, partners at Sequoia, YC, Benchmark, and many others.

He also open-sourced his entire curriculum, templates and all. Here's a link 👇

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

Super excited to be here in NYC for the @databricks CDO Forum. Sold out!

I can't wait to deliver my talk around "Securing the Data in your Lakehouse" and network with the fantastic audience.

[Fermin J. Serna @fjserna]

@reillyusa Spain but essentially Germany! Great place