CyberBytes: The Podcast

Today’s guest is Bradon Rogers, Chief Customer Officer @ Island a leading enterprise browser.  Hot off the back of a $175m Series D raise resulting in a new $3b valuation, doubling the last valuation less than a year ago. In this episode, we cover: Island, the core technology and the last mile Increasing security whilst maintaining productivity How you can avoid hacks using an enterprise brow...

Today’s guest is Shan Kulkarni, Co-Founder & CEO @ Nullify an AI AppSec Security company. Shan Founded Nullify 18 months ago with the goal of building AI Agents to augment security teams helping them get to AppSec maturity faster with less. In this episode, Shan and I cover:  The story behind Nullify and the problem they solve His transition from leading security engineering teams to beco...

Prior to meeting Jon Miller, CEO & Co-founder of Halcyon, for his CyberBytes: The Podcast episode, two prior Cylance folk told me he’d make an awesome episode but to expect the unexpected.   Jon did not disappoint and brought Pete Morgan along for the ride. Pete is a highly respected hacker and Founder, making a fun conversation between the three of us. We spoke about… The early reve...

Today’s guest is Alex Cox, Director of Threat Intelligence (TIME) @ LastPass a leading password manager.  Alex is a recognised security and cyber threat intelligence expert, spending over 20 years in various cybersecurity roles in the security product and financial services industries. In this episode, we cover: The Transition from Military/Law Enforcement to the Private sector Staying up to...

Today’s guest is Jordan Rackie, CEO @ Keyfactor an Identity-first security company. Jordan joined Keyfactor around 5 years ago as a first-time CEO leading the business to surpass $100M ARR with a $1.3B valuation. In this episode, Jordan and I cover: His transition from leading GTM teams to becoming CEO at Keyfactor The story behind Keyfactor and what makes them different What’s next for Kayfactor...

CyberBytes: The Podcast powered by Aspiron Search are excited to release the very first episode of our RSA 2024 Edition!  David Primor founded Cynomi in 2020 with the goal of helping SME businesses improve their security risk. Their virtual CISO platform has grown tremendously to over 130 customers, and David talks me through some of the unique things Cynomi has done to achieve this.  In...

Today’s guest is Danny Brickman, Co-Founder & CEO @ Oasis Security, a leading platform for non-human identity management.  Just out of stealth with a whopping $40m in total funding and a big vision, Danny shares all about Oasis and NHIs. In this episode, we cover: Identity security and how it has evolved The wild-west of Non-human identities,  The main attack vector for NHI  AI,...

Today’s guest is Bernard Brantley CISO at Corelight, a Network Detection and Response company. In this episode, Bernard shares his journey into cybersecurity, offers tips for folks looking to break into cybersecurity, and insight into emerging security trends and threats.   Tune in to learn about: Bernard’s journey into cybersecurity, starting from selling sneakers at Footlocker What surprise...

Today’s guest is Aviv Mussinger Co-Founder & CEO @ Kodem Security, a leading context-based application security platform.  From playing the guitar on stage with Green Day to founding Kodem Security, Mussi reveals all about his journey to date and everything Kodem. In this episode, we cover: His experience at NSO Group The vision and mission for Kodem Security  What Kodem is doing so...

Today’s guest is Deepak Jeevankumar, Managing Director @ Dell Technologies Capital (DTC), the investment arm of Dell Technologies.  Deepak has always had a love for startups and got into VC after his MBA, spending 7 years at General Catalyst before joining DTC where he has also just celebrated his 7th year anniversary focusing on Cyber and Infrastructure investments. Deepak is super knowledge...

Today’s guest is Toni de la Fuente, Co-Founder & CTO at Prowler, an open source cloud security tool. In this episode, Toni shares his journey into cybersecurity, the story and mission behind Prowler, and insight into the future of cloud security.   Tune in to learn about: The problem Prowler solves Toni’s journey into cybersecurity, starting from reading Cuckoo’s Egg The story behind Prow...

Today on CyberBytes: The Podcast, we welcome Jessica Cryzter, CRO of LimaCharlie! Oliver has had the pleasure of working with Jessica for a while, and today they dive into the story of her struggle to get a job out of college, her fall into photocopier sales and journey to leading the GTM efforts for one of the most disruptive security vendors on the market. Jessica is one of the few female sales...

Today’s guest is Almog Apirion, Co-Founder & CEO at Cyolo a solution that secures remote access to critical systems for both industrial and enterprise organizations.  Almog is a recovering CISO having spent 20 years in the industry before deciding to start a startup with Co-Founders Dedi Yarkoni and Eran Shmuely. In this episode, we cover: How his experience in the field as a CISO helped...

Today's guest is Erkang Zheng, CEO and Founder of Jupiter One. In this episode Erkang shares his experience as a tech founder, talks more about his time as the CISO of LifeOmic and gives valuable insights into the reality of life as a founder. If you would like to be our next guest or are looking to hire Technical or Go-To-Market Cybersecurity Talent please get in touch via info@aspironsearch.com...

Today’s guest is Arjun Bhatnagar, CEO at Cloaked, a people-first all-in-one privacy solution. In this episode, Arjun shares his journey to entrepreneurship, the story behind Cloaked to increase control in your life, insight into the VC space, and his learnings from previous startups.  Tune in to learn about: The problem Cloaked solves Arjun’s journey from (cold) calling at the age of 10 to bu...

Today’s guest we have Benny Lakunishok, Co-Founder & CEO at Zero Networks, a fully automated platform for zero trust segmentation and remote access.  Benny has been busy the last 5years working on Zero Networks. After 3years of building the product, he and the team felt it was time to go to market and last year did not disappoint with them completing their Series B $20m funding round and...

Today’s guest we have Jake Seid, Co-Founder & General Partner of Ballistic Ventures an early stage cybersecurity and security-related venture fund. This isn’t Jake’s first rodeo, having been Managing Director at Lightspeed and Founder and Managing Director at Stone Bridge Ventures. Ballistics debut fund was $300m and they recently celebrated their first exit with Talon Cybersecurity. In this e...

On today’s episode of CyberBytes The Podcast I welcome the King of the Security Metaphor, Richard Bird! Richard talks about his tequila fuelled decision to move from construction project management into IT and the serendipitous events that led him to being the Chief Security Officer for API security vendor, Traceable. Richard and I also cover how the role of the CISO, the weight the role now holds...

Today’s guest is Ken Zalevsky, CEO at VigilantOps the pioneer of SBOMs and vulnerability management. In this episode we cover: Evolution of cybersecurity in the healthcare and medical device space over the last 2 decades. Real word attacks and breaches that changed from losing records to losing lives and birthed changes in regulations. Ken’s founding journey and the SBOMs & vulnerability manag...

Today’s guest we have Grant Geyer, Chief Product Officer at Claroty a leading Cyber Physical Systems Security firm. I managed to catch Grant whilst he was traveling through NYC at Claroty HQ’s and although we had both been up since 4am this episode was a ton of fun full of insights into the fascinating OT security space. In this episode we cover: Grants background starting in technical intelligenc...

Today’s guest we have Mickey Bresman, CEO at Semperis the pioneer of identity-driven cyber resilience for cross-cloud and hybrid environments. I had the privilege of speaking to Mickey out of his headquarters in Hoboken, New Jersey on my trip to NYC last week and he definitely made the trip across water worth it! In this episode we cover: Mickeys founding journey and the Active Directory (AD) Disa...

Today’s guest is Uzair Ahmed, CTO and Co-Founder at Right-Hand Cybersecurity. In this episode, Uzair shares his journey to entrepreneurship, gives insight into the problem Right-Hand Cybersecurity solves, and key learnings from navigating through turbulent markets. Tune in to learn about: Uzair’s journey to entrepreneurship  The idea behind Right-Hand Cybersecurity Uzair’s key learnings for n...

Today’s guest we have Joel Fulton CEO at Lucidum, a asset discovery company that elimates blind spots across the cloud, security and IT operations.  Joel is a right character, who’s original career goal was to be a firefighter he found himself falling into IT and then security. The energy Joe created on this pod lasted throughout the day for me and so no wonder hes a exceptional leader. ...

Today’s guest is Feross Aboukhadijeh, CEO at Socket. In this episode, Feross shares his open source journey, why he started Socket to improve OSS security, common supply chain security mistakes and he provides insight into the future of supply chain security.   Tune in to learn about: Feross’s journey into open source  Common mistakes companies make when it comes to supply chain security...

Today’s guest we have Philipp Pointner, Chief of Digital Identity at Jumio, a leading digital identity verification platform that helps verify and detect fraudulent identities and transactions online.  Philipp is a passionate product management guy, having started at Jumio over 12 years ago as their Chief Product Officer he handed the baton to Bala Kumar and now sits as Chief of Digital Ident...