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John Amaral

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John Amaral is CSTO at Aikido, with extensive experience across cybersecurity, software security, product strategy, engineering, and executive leadership. He previously co-founded Root.io, where he helped build an agentic software factory for securing and maintaining open source software at scale.
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Blog posts by John Amaral

July 20, 2026
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Guides & Best Practices

What is DSPM and how does it work?

Traditional DSPM finds where sensitive data lives. Code-based DSPM finds how it gets exposed, and points to the fix in your code.

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