CyberBytes: The Podcast

Today's guest is Oleg Vuskiker Co Founder & CTO at Salvador Technologies. In today's episode we discuss the friendship between Oleg and Alex (CEO) who are first time founders, their OT Cyber Recovery solution and where they want the business in a few years time.  Tune in to learn about; Oleg and Alex First time founders from school living in Southern Israel OT Cyber Risk #1 Vendor The cha...

Today’s guest is Alex Bovee, Co-Founder & CEO @ ConductorOne, a leading identity security platform for the modern workforce. Alex and I found time before he slipped off to travel around Europe with his daughter this summer In this episode, we cover: ConductorOne and the market opportunity  ConductorOne features, just in time privilege management and their differentiators   The I...

Today’s guest is Barry Mainz, CEO at Forescout. In this episode, Barry discusses his journey from being an individual seller and a customer of Forescout to now being CEO and leading the 1000+ head company.  Tune in to learn about:  Forescout’s continuing development of the OT product since the acquisition of SecurityMatters. The new Cyber war against online criminals & state nations...

Today’s guest is Kevin Tian, Co-Founder & CEO of Doppel, a Digital Risk Protection company.  We had an amazing chat about how AI is changing the threat landscape and how Doppel fights cybercrime. Key Takeaways:  Kevin shares his journey from Software Engineer to CEO The story behind Doppel Learnings as a first-time CEO Doppels partnership with DDC How AI is changing the threat landsc...

Today’s guest is Amiram Shachar, Co-Founder & CEO @ Upwind a Cloud Security Platform focused on Runtime Security. Before founding Upwind around 18 months ago, Amiram successfully built and sold Spot.io despite investor concern. In this episode, Amiram and I cover:  Amiram’s background starting in the Israeli military  Learnings from the success of his first sale The problem Upwind is...

Today’s guest is Gal Ringel, Co-Founder & CEO @ Mine, a leading Data privacy and governance platform.  Gal was just back from Consero conference when we recorded the show and didn’t hold back in this episode. In this episode, we cover: How spending 4.5yrs as an investor gave him an advantage as a startup founder. The importance of your founding team How Mine saved over 500k users from dat...

Today’s guest is Vivek Ramachandran, Founder @ SquareX a Browser Native Security Platform.  Vivek has been in Cybersecurity for over 20 years with multiple successful exits before founding SquareX. In this episode, Vivek and I cover:  The problem SquareX is solving  Vivek’s background and the story behind SquareX Topics security leaders are talking about How SquareX is innovating&nb...

Today’s guest is Jared Phipps, CRO @ Dazz a Security Remediation Company Jared was recently appointed CRO after spending 6 years at SentinelOne leading Sales across The Americas. In this episode, Jared and I cover:  Jared’s unconventional background from the US AirForce to sales leadership  The problem that Dazz is trying to solve  What the 12 months look like for Dazz Future trends...

Any current or aspiring sales leader needs to check out today’s episode of CyberBytes: The Podcast RSA Edition.  Brandon Conley, CRO of AppOmni, joined me at RSA to talk about his path from IT Recruiter to high performing Cybersecurity sales leader. His gives some solid advice that folk can take on board and execute to achieve some of the results he has. You’ll hear him talk about…  His...

Today’s guest is Tom McAndrew, CEO @ Coalfire the world’s largest firm dedicated to cybersecurity services. Tom has been with Coalfire for 20+ years from startup to global company. In this episode, Tom and I cover:  Tom’s background (24 years in the Navy) The story behind Coalfire and problems they solve Security challenges boards are facing What Coalfire is doing in AI What the future holds...

The benefit of a CyberBytes: The Podcast episode taking 18 months to finally record… the guest can get promoted to CEO!   Between numerous rescheduled, Brian Roche recently stepped up from Chief Product Officer to CEO of Application Security leader, Veracode. Brian and I have gotten to know each other during setting this up, and it was great to be able to sit down in-person at RSA to hea...

Today’s guest is Rich Dandliker, Chief Strategist @ Veza an Identity Security Company. Before joining Veza, Rich spent over 4 years at Okta overseeing their products through IPO. In this episode, Rich and I cover:  Rich’s background and journey to Veza How the Identity space has evolved Challenges businesses face around Identity The problem that Veza solves How Veza is innovating within the I...

Russell Spitler, CEO and Co-founder of Nudge Security, and I sat down on the last day of RSA during a hugely exciting week for the team!  They announced their Series A raise via Forgepoint Capital, Evolution Equity and Squadra Ventures to propel them further in the SaaS Data Security space.  Tune in to today's episode of CyberBytes: The Podcast RSA Edition to learn about…  Russ and...

Today’s guest is Belsasar Lepe, Co-Founder & CEO at Cerby a comprehensive access management platform for nonstandard applications. Bel is no stranger to building startups having had a very successful exit with Ooyala, now working on Cerby  In this episode, we cover: Building a startup with people you can trust Key lessons from his first startup, and building his second Advice for aspiring...

Today’s guest is Nic LaBuz, VP of GTM @ Endor Labs a Software Supply Chain Security Company. Nic was appointed VP of GTM at Endor Labs 18 months ago jumping back into the startup space to scale Endor, from Palo.  In this episode, Nic and I cover:  Nic’s background and journey to Endor Labs Nic’s learnings from moving big to small How Endor Labs are innovating  The evolution of the S...

Alastair Paterson and his Co-founder Brian Woolgar-O’Neil were the youngest company to be part of this year's competition, which is a testament to what the team is doing in the GenAI Cybersecurity space.  Alastair and I sat down for an episode of CyberBytes: The Podcast RSA Edition and he took me through…  12 years of building and exiting DigitalShadows to ReliaQuest  The surprising...

Today’s guest is Daniel Barber, Co-Founder & CEO @ DataGrail a leading data privacy control center.  Daniel dives into the Cyber adjacent world of Data Privacy and in this episode, we cover: Why there is such a disconnect with customers expecting control but businesses being out of control Regulation, the new federal bill in motion How it affects the CISO/CPO and what it means The DataGra...

Today’s guest is Gabe Deale, COO @ AKA Identity an IAM company that simplifies manual and inefficient identity and access management decisions with visibility, intelligence and action. Gabe is a start-up junkie and has joined AKA to build and be part of a company setting the new industry standard. In this episode, Gabe and I cover:  The story behind AKA and the problem they solve Gabe’s journ...

Bob is a figurehead in the Cybersecurity ecosystem and has been involved with an impressive list of companies. During his CyberBytes: The Podcast RSA Edition episode, Bob and I talked about…   What led him to founding AllegisCyber Capital, the first security specific venture capital firm The story behind co-founding DataTribe with Michael Janke and how they cherry-pick some of the best f...

Today’s guest is J.J. Guy, Co-Founder & CEO at Sevco Security. An elite government hacker and pro paintballer, J.J. reveals all about Sevco Security In this episode, we cover: His 12years in the military breaking into networks Sevco’s new Exposure Management capabilities, vulnerability prioritization, remediation, validation, and analytics The challenges running Cybersecurity startups Asset In...

Today’s guest is David Van Allen, CEO @ Cofense an email security company. David was appointed CEO at Cofense last year. Cofense has trained 35 million employees who report phishing attempts and find 1 damaging, malicious email per minute. In this episode, David and I cover:  The problem Cofense solves Employees being the solution, not the problem Future looking for Cofense  How AI will...

It’s not too often that a Cybersecurity vendor comes along with a truly new offering. LimaCharlie is the first Cloud provider for Cybersecurity, and the first vendor I’ve ever seen raffle off a power tool set on the conference floor!  CEO & Founder, Maxime Lamothe-Brassard joins me on CyberBytes: The Podcast RSA 2024 Edition and walks us through… His incredible early career with the...

Today’s guest is Christy Wyatt, President & CEO at Absolute Security. Christy is a Silicon Valley Veteran and globally recognised technology leader. She has won multiple awards and sits as one of the top women entrepreneurs and CEOs in America and I was truly privileged to have time to sit down with her at RSA. In this episode, we cover: Her inspiring career trajectory and learning curves Less...

Today’s guest is Thomas Bain, CMO @ VulnCheck an Expliot Intelligence Company. Tom was appointed CMO at VulnCheck last year. VulnCheck was recognised as a Top 10 Innovation Sandbox Finalist at RSA 24. In this episode, Tom and I cover:  The problem VulnCheck solves How VulnCheck is differentiating from its competition and innovating in the VM space Insight into what being a Top 10 Sandbox Fina...

Today on CyberBytes: The Podcast RSA 2024 Edition, it’s a pleasure to welcome Wesley Hales, CEO & Co-founder of LeakSignal.  Wesley and his team set out 2 years ago to solve the super hard problem of in-transit data classification. They recently raised their Seed round and Wesley talks about  The problem DSPM does not solve and how LeakSignal successfully tackle this  The challe...