Genealogy of Cybersecurity - Startup Podcast

Founder spotlight interview with Varun Badhwar. Varun is the current CEO of EndorLabs, a three-time Innovation Sandbox finalist, and known for founding cloud security posture management startup RedLock, which became Palo Alto Networks PRISMA Cloud. Varun tells stories about evangelizing the new ways of cloud posture management with RedLock’s Cloud Security Intelligence (CSI) unit that quietly pres...

CEO and Founder of Enterprise Browser startup Island, Mike Fey, talks about entrepreneurship, innovation, and the future of web browsing. Paul explores Mike's experiences working with venture capitalists like CyberStarts and Sequoia, and startup-advising CISOs, getting early customer feedback during the ideation, seed, and early growth stages. Mike describes the origin story behind Insland an...

Innovation Sandbox finalist and Relyance AI Founder Abhi Sharma discuss privacy and compliance in a world where every company is a software company, and DevOps code produces so many data flows with your private and regulated data. Abhi points out a privacy solution must govern DevOps, “privacy is in the code.”  Abhi discusses NLP, LLMs, OpenAI, and Chat GPT, and how Relyance AI’s intelligence unde...

Innovation Sandbox finalist, Cryptographer, and Zama VP Benoit Chevallier-Mames discuss Zama’s efforts to bring fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) into commercial use. How FHE would allow application developers and customers to benefit from the insights obtained by sharing data with AI providers, like OpenAI or ChatGPT, but without exposing private data. Benoit goes through some of the mathematica...

Innovation Sandbox finalist and Astrix Security Founder Idan Gour discuss the rising attack surface created by API-to-API connections and non-human identities. How no-code orchestration tools, low code tools, and generative AI, like ChatGPT, are causing non-technical business users to build integration apps that access and sometimes share sensitive data. Idan discusses mapping this web of API-to-A...

Innovation Sandbox finalist and Valence Security Founder Yoni Shohet discuss the new SaaS-to-Saas attack surface produced by the proliferation of shadow integrations between SaaS apps. Today users are typically SaaS admins and often okay SaaS App requests to access other apps like their Calendar, Email, or SalesForce.  Yoni explains how automation tools for non-developers are expanding the problem...

Innovation Sandbox finalist and Endor Labs Founder Varun Badhwar discuss the magnitude of open-source vulnerabilities, highlighting the developers behind vulnerabilities like CoreJS and Log4shell, and why strategic pieces of the internet depend on libraries that sometimes rest on a single part-time open-source developer, even developers with prison records. Varun talks about his past pioneering cl...

Concentric AI Founder Karthik Krishnan discusses the new Data Security Posture Management market and answers the age-old questions of what data you have, where is it, and who’s accessing it. Karthik discusses advances in AI, natural language processing (NLP), Open AI ChatGPT, Large Language Models (LLMs), and what it all means to data classification and society. Karthik Krishnan explains the incre...

Chief Trust Officer Autodesk and recent CISO of Nutanix Sebastian Goodwin discusses advising startup, Concentric AI, in the new data security posture management (DSPM) space, and the importance of locating your data as a prerequisite for security. Sebastian and Paul discuss the recent maturity of natural language processing (NLP), and how ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) are impacting the...

Join the podcast as we dive into a fascinating conversation with Britta Glade, the Vice President of Content and Curation at RSA Conference. Discover the world of "people's trends" as Britta sheds light on her team's meticulous analysis of 2,400 speaker submissions from influential practitioners in the industry. Get an insider's perspective on RSA's technical session...

Paul Shomo’s 7th annual coverage of the RSAC’s startup competition, Innovation Sandbox, is out in DarkReading . In this episode, Paul recaps the show, tells you things you didn’t know about the finalists, some private thoughts from the judges, and highlights a very interesting trend in 2023: automation, ML and software-building tools are creating dangerous attack surfaces, that preoccupy 8 or 9 of...

Interview with Innovation Sandbox 2nd place winner, Pangea. Pangea CEO Oliver Friedrichs, a former Founder of orchestration phenom Phantom, discusses the state of AppSec and what is wrong with the shift-left movement.  Pangea discusses how shifting-left-of-left can bypass both arguments between SecDevOps and app developers, and false positives in code analysis. Paul forgets he’s met Oliver before...

Hidden Layer Founder Chris Sestito of RSAC Innovation Sandbox winner Hidden Layer, discusses AI adversarial attacks on ML systems, the ease of stealing intellectual property with ML, Chris Sestito’s history at Cylance building next-gen ML systems, and a historic 2019 attack on Cylance using adversarial ML.  Hidden Layer brings us up to speed on this new important attack surface. Paul and Chris dis...

Island CEO Mike Fey discusses unmanaged devices and the enterprise browser as the cloud’s successor to Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Paul and Mike discuss how Island’s browser is disrupting the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and the Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) industries. Paul and Mike debate whether these new browsers can create a secure edge to the cloud by themselves, or not.  Mike...

Ashland CISO Bob Schuetter on brainstorming secure enterprise browsers in their startup's incubation period. Bob discusses building the cloud’s secure edge, and how new web browsers like Island’s ( @island_io ) will disrupt Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) industries. Bob and Paul explore exactly why DLP failed and if there should be optimism for the SA...

StrikeReady’s Chief Product Officer, Anurag Gurtu, discusses AI virtual assistants, the younger generation’s AI optimism, the problems of incident response, and the automation possibilities of artificial intelligence. Anurag and Paul explore how virtual assistants will disrupt cybersecurity, orchestration, SIEM, SOAR, and managed services. Building and training virtual assistants is more complex t...

The Genealogy of Innovation is a new kind of cybersecurity podcast, focusing on interviewing the people involved in emerging tech. Here we’ll interview top entrepreneurs, startup-advising CISOs, and analysts. Our topic? What’s wrong with cybersecurity.  Security is an arms race full of hype. But when you focus on the inception point of innovation, you meet fascinating people who simply have better...