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Kyle McNulty interviews cutting-edge founders in the cyber security space to understand their plights, glories, and revolutionary products.
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In the spirit of the end of the year, I decided to put together some highlights from a handful of episodes over the course of 2024. This episode will feature a select few snippets from five different episodes over the course of the year including Chris from RADICL and LogRhythm, Gil from Orca, Chris from Veracode, Andy from BreachRx, and Kabir from Leen. There will be a mix of stories of unique crossroads, general entrepreneurial advice, and cybersecurity-specific challenges.
Thank you to all the listeners this year!
Sponsor: Vulncheck
Odysseas is co-founder and CEO of Phylax, a web3 security company building a security layer for blockchain-based protocols. Before Phylax, Odysseas worked at Nomad, a crypto exchange which suffered a $190M breach in August 2022. In the episode, we talk about his unique background as a developer relations manager, the approach law enforcement takes to recover funds in the wake of a crypto breach, the different attack surfaces for the web3 ecosystem, and more. If you are not a blockchain expert, do not worry, me neither. There are still plenty of interesting high level conversation points throughout!
Maksym is CEO and founder of Mantis Analytics, providing holistic security awareness to organizations through a social media monitoring platform. The tool combs media channels to identify risks to a customer's business and escalates alerts accordingly. I thought this would be an interesting opportunity to look at the broader security world to understand some parallels with pure cybersecurity. Maksym worked in business intelligence and product management for two decades before the Ukraine war inspired him to start something that would make a difference. In the episode we talk about the war events leading to the creation of Mantis, the pivot from a focus on solely disinformation, the problems with keyword searches with the growth of generative AI, and more.
Website
Sponsor: VulnCheck
Ben is founder and CEO of watchTowr, building an external attack surface management tool (EASM) that performs automated penetration testing and red teaming activities. Before founding watchTowr in 2021, Ben worked as a security consultant for a decade focused largely on penetration testing. And as Ben describes in the episode, what started as a combination of cobbled together scripts from his previous experience has since grown into a comprehensive automation platform.
Website: https://watchtowr.com/
Sponsor: VulnCheck
Uri is co-founder and CEO of Refine Intelligence, which is focused on anti money laundering and check fraud. Uri previously came on the podcast in 2022 and talked about the evolution of fraud prevention over the last 20 years. I re-released that episode back in August because I loved the story so much. At that time, we talked mostly about his previous company, BioCatch, which sold a majority stake to Permira earlier this year at a 1.3 billion dollar valuation. In this episode, we pick up the story with the evolution of fraud over the last few years, including why money laundering and check fraud still present such massive risk areas to banks.
Website: refineintelligence.com
Sponsor: VulnCheck
David is CEO and Founder of Naoris Protocol, which provides a blockchain-based mesh architecture for improved endpoint integrity. The company was founded in 2016 and has since raised over $30 million. Before Naoris, David was a cyber leader at a range of global companies including AT&T, Electronic Arts, London City Airport, and others. In the episode, we discuss his background discovering cybersecurity in a small farming village in Portugal and the real-world applications of blockchain technology which have yet to become popularized.
Oded is co-founder and CEO of Akeyless, which provides a vaultless secrets management platform for companies to manage their non-human identities. We will talk more about the vault vs. vaultless approach in the episode, but essentially the Akeyless design allows for a SaaS model which dramatically reduces time to value compared to often cumbersome vault implementation. Akeyless last raised a whopping $65 million dollar Series B in late 2022. Before Akeyless, Oded navigated a winding career parth from a Captain in the IDF working on identity management, to professional services, to product management at a B2C transportation technology company, and then finally back to identity management and Akeyless in 2018.
Akeyless Website
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Oz is co-founder and CEO of Opsin, which provides access control capabilities to LLM outputs ensuring users only get appropriate outputs based on their access level. The company was founded earlier this year, but they have already seen strong customer and investor interest given they are aimed at a key roadblock in making gen AI more available within the enterprise. Before Opsin, Oz worked in product management at high profile technology and security companies for most of the last decade, including Fireeye and Abnormal (where he met his co-founder James). In the episode we discuss everything from the origin story to the technical challenges of applying access control to these outputs and how to maintain current records despite a constantly changing access landscape.
Website
Sponsor: VulnCheck
Kabir is co-founder and CEO of Leen, which is creating a unified security API to enable simpler integrations of security tooling. As Kabir will immediately tell you, he has no background in cybersecurity. However, he does have extensive experience with growing partnerships and sales numbers in industries where he has no background. He worked in business development for the last 15 years across a variety of tech companies including NativeX, Kiip, and Typeform. As he tells in the episode, he very carefully and patiently assembled the founding team, and the problem Leen is addressing then emerged as the imperative from their extensive whiteboarding sessions. Now, after a hot start, the team is in the middle of key strategy decisions that will determine the future of the company.
Website: Leen
Sponsor: VulnCheck
This episode is a re-release of a conversation I had with Uri back in the beginning of 2022. It is truly one of my all-time favorites because of how well he illustrates the evolution of fraud prevention in financial services over time. Rest assured, he will be back on the show soon to talk about his new company which was in stealth at the time of this recording.
His new company's website
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Andy is CEO and co-founder of BreachRx, which provides incident response management tooling to help organizations respond effectively, consistently, and in accordance with legal requirements. Andy has a JD, an MBA, and a philosophy degree, which combine for a unique skillset. He worked in data breach litigation early in his career, and before starting BreachRx he was a Director for a government consulting group specializing in technology litigation. BreachRx ties together his experience across his career, as he is uniquely knowledgable about the legal complications that arise when managing cyber incidents. In the episode, we jump from the evolution of data privacy to the importance of dedicated communication channels for breach response to the personal liability of executives in cyber incidents.
Website: BreachRx
Sponsor: VulnCheck
Craig is co-founder and CEO of Bleach Cyber, which is building a product for small businesses to manage their holistic cybersecurity posture in a streamlined fashion. Before Bleach, Craig was COO and co-founder of Cyvatar which is a cybersecurity as a service offering for SMBs. Craig has 15 years of experience as a CISO or equivalent, including at companies such as Monster.com and Fujitsu. In the episode we touch on his journey from CISO to founder, the comparison of cybersecurity for extremely small businesses to B2C, and the strategy behind their go to market approach currently in-play.
Website
Sponsor: VulnCheck
Vivek is the CEO and co-founder of SquareX, which is building a Chrome extension to help users secure their web browser activities. Before SquareX, Vivek founded and led Pentester Academy, one of the leaders in online cybersecurity training. Pentester Academy was acquired by INE, which then led to the birth of SquareX. In the episode we discuss his story of learning penetration testing skills and building educational resources along with the pros and cons of offering an extension-based product compared to a complete browser as seen by others in the space.
Website
Sponsor: VulnCheck
Luigi is CEO and co-founder of Bfore.ai, which detects malicious infrastructure before it is used in an attack. The company has two products today under its broader pre-crime technology umbrella, and we talk about those in more detail during the episode. Prior to Bfore.ai, Luigi was a diehard Dell employee. He started in tech support and worked his way to become a VP for solution sales for the EMEA market. He then led EMEA sales for Quest software, which was a spinout from Dell. He left in 2017 after over two decades under the Dell family and thought he was retiring. However, a year later, he started Bfore.ai after a series of events he describes as serendipitous. In the episode, we discuss the unique founding story, what pre-crime technology entails, and the data supporting its relevance under a broader threat intelligence program.
Website: Bfore.ai
Sponsor: vulncheck.com
Liran is one of the founding partners at Team8, one of the most preeminent investors in Israel with over one billion dollars under management. Team8 started in 2014 with a focus on cybersecurity and enterprise technology, and it has since evolved to include investments in fintech and healthcare as well. Before starting Team8, Liran was in Unit 8200 and then worked in product-focused roles at two high-growth tech companies. In the episode we discuss his story of starting such a successful fund at a young age, the opportunity they saw in a foundry model in Israel, and the areas of cybersecurity that can support standalone public companies as opposed to just acquisition targets.
Team8 website: team8.vc
Sponsor: vulncheck.com
Gil is co-founder and CEO of Orca Security, one of the leading cloud security platforms on the market today. The company was last valued at 1.8 billion dollars in late 2021. Orca has 8 co-founders, and Gil started as Chief Product Officer before taking the CEO reins last year. We talk more about this dynamic in the episode. Before Orca, Gil worked at Check Point for a decade where he gained experience across a variety of different cutting-edge domains including mobile security, advanced threat protection, and cloud gateway.
In the episode, we discuss the commoditization of the CSPM space, the relevance of AI in cloud security remediation, and the strategy for Orca moving forward including regional expansion.
Orca Website: orca.security
Sponsor: vulncheck.com
Chris is co-founder and CTO of Veracode, an application security powerhouse which was last valued at 2.5 billion in march 2022. The company was founded in 2005 as a code review automation platform, and it has since evolved to be one of the gold standard application security tools. Before founding Veracode, Chris worked as a security researcher and engineer for a decade where he grew frustrated with the manual source code review process. In the episode, we discuss how long it took Chris to believe he had really created something special, the important technical decisions the team made both early on and later in the company's life, and how the DevSecOps movement and new entrants impacted Veracode's market positioning.
Veracode: https://www.veracode.com/
Sponsor: https://vulncheck.com/
Shashank is CEO and co-founder of Uno.ai, which is building an AI platform for managing GRC activities such as knowledge base usage and audits. I interviewed Shashank on the podcast back in November 2022, and at the time Uno was focused on using AI to automate activities in the SOC. The AI world has changed a lot since November 2022. The company has since pivoted, and in this episode we focus on what triggered the change in vision, what was wrong with the previous solution, and what is attractive about this new GRC use case.
Website: https://uno.ai/
Sponsor: https://vulncheck.com/
Previous Episode with Shashank (November 2022):
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Mike is the CEO and founder of Evo Security, which is building an Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution specifically designed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). He started the company back in 2018 after leaving behind a private equity fund focused on oil and gas. In the episode, we discuss his transition into cyber from the energy world and what makes Evo uniquely positioned to serve the needs of MSPs given the variety of IAM solutions available on the market today.
Evo Security Website: https://www.evosecurity.com/
Sponsor: https://vulncheck.com/
Diana Kelley is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for ProtectAI. She also serves on the boards of Women in Cybersecurity, The Executive Women’s Forum, InfoSec World, CyberFuture Foundation, TechTarget Security Editorial, and DevNet AI/ML. Diana was Cybersecurity Field CTO for Microsoft, Global Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security, GM at Symantec, VP at Burton Group (now Gartner), a Manager at KPMG, CTO and co-founder of SecurityCurve, and Chief vCISO at SaltCybersecurity.In the episode, we talk about her involvement with all of these different groups and how that has changed over time, plus how and why she arrived at ProtectAI. She also talks about the ProtectAI product strategy and how their different products play into their broader vision for AI security.
Website: protect.ai
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