CyberBytes: The Podcast

Today’s guest is Michael Hans, VP of Engineering at Picnic Corporation. In this episode, Michael takes us on his journey into the realms of engineering and Cybersecurity, he shares invaluable insights on building high-performing engineering teams, offers tips for engineers when considering equity, and delves into the future trends of cybersecurity.   Tune in to learn about: Michael’s journey...

Today’s guest we have Galit Lubetzky Co-Founder & CEO @ Wing Security, a leading SaaS Security Posture Management solution that provides full visibility and control over your applications, users and data.  Galit retired as a colonel in the IDF after 23 years, and decided to found Wing Security just a couple of months after the pandemic. Since launching she has been on a mission to secure...

Today’s guest is Matthew Warner, CTO and Co-Founder at Blumira. In this episode, Matt shares his journey into cybersecurity and entrepreneurship, he provides valuable insights into the evolution of SIEM and XDR, and offers advice to early-stage Founders.   Tune in to learn about: Matt’s journey from dropping out of college to becoming a serial entrepreneur  The idea behind Blumira Evolut...

Today’s guest we have Chris Denbigh-White, Chief Security Officer at Next DLP a leading provider of insider risk and data protection solutions. This episode was a ton of fun, Chris talks about his experience transitioning from law enforcement to the private sector and shares his advice to others looking to make the transition.   We discuss at depth ransomware, its driving factors, how’s...

Today’s guest we have Javed Hasan, Co-Founder and CEO at Lineaje a Cybersecurity startup that provides software supply chain security solutions,  Javed has over 20 years of experience in product management and has built and scaled successful, high-growth product lines for enterprise and consumer markets having managed more than 50 products through the entire product lifecycle.  Happy New...

Today’s guest is John Williamson, VP of North American Sales at SOCRadar. In this episode, John shares his learnings from interviewing thousands of sales folks, we discuss how the B2B buyer persona is changing, and John gives insight into how SOCRadar’s new team-focused approach is winning! Tune in to learn about: What attributes make a top-performing sales rep How the B2B buy persona is changing...

Today’s guest we have the infamous Dave DeWalt. Founder & CEO at NightDragon.  Dave is a 4x CEO and security industry titan. Having grown up in Pennsylvania, he studied Computer Science at the University of Delaware, to my surprise also spending his spare time training as a Wrestler! Upon graduating and not really knowing what he wanted to do he heard about the Silicon Valley dream and de...

Today’s guest we have Anna Belak – Director, Office of Cybersecurity Strategy at Sysid. Anna has nearly ten years of experience researching and advising organizations on cloud adoption with a focus on security best practices. As a Gartner Analyst, Anna spent six years helping more than 500 enterprises with vulnerability management, security monitoring, and DevSecOps initiatives.  Anna is now...

Today’s guest is Andy Fogila, Director of Engineering at JupiterOne. In this episode, Andy shares his journey into engineering, provides insight from his transition from IC to Management, and delves into the topic of Corporate vs Startup environment. Tune in to learn about: Andy’s first lesson and failure Andy’s crash course into engineering leadership What the first 3 months looks like as a leade...

Today Oliver Legg welcomed Harshil Parikh, CEO and Founder of code to cloud security vendor, Tromzo. Over the past 3 years the business has gone from strength to strength and is being regularly adopted by new enterprise security teams to solve real world application security problems.  Harshil and Oliver also talk about the incredible work he does as a Co-founder of the Silicon Valley CISO In...

Today’s guest we have Ron Nissim, CEO & Co-Founder at Entitle.   Ron was a great guest sharing the harsh realities of founding a Cybersecurity startup and the challenges that come with it.   In this episode we discuss:  What it really takes to find an initial solution to a problem The challenges of Privileged Access Management, how it’s evolved and how Entitle is chang...

Today’s guest we have Ben Kliger, CEO & Co-Founder of Zenity, the first security governance platform for low-code/no-code applications. Ben has over 17 years security industry experience and having just secured a $16.5m Series A round led by Intel Capital is on a mission to enable the low-code/no-code revolution by providing security governance that is simple, scalable, and seamless. We Discus...

This week’s guest we have Itzik Alvas, CEO & Co-Founder of Entro Security. After serving 5 years in the elite Cybersecurity unit of the IDF, Itzik moved into industry starting as a developer and quickly progressing through the ranks to CISO for a major healthcare organisation and later Head of Security and SRE and Microsoft. Itzik then decided to found Entro Security with Co-Founder Adam Cheri...

Omri is the CRO & Co-founder of DoControl. An automated platform that provides data access monitoring, orchestration, and remediation across SaaS applications. Omri was born into a family business and has had to wear multiple hats for a very long time. So, you could say he has start-up blood! Having founded a company prior and raised money, whilst also taking sales from $0 to a few million, th...

Today’s guest is Brett Galloway, CEO at AttackIQ. Brett is an experienced entrepreneur and executive who has brought together technology, product, and business expertise to innovate and deliver a stream of successful product businesseses over his career.  Currently the CEO at AttackIQ, an industry leading provider of breach and attack simulation products for security control validation. Attac...

Today's guest we welcome Swimlane's Co-founder and CSO, Cody Cornell to to CyberBytes: The Podcast! In an episode you do not want to miss, Cody talks about his unexpected journey from security practitioner to helping lead a VC backed security vendor. We cover: ✔️ The change in sales process in 2023 and new buying personas involved ✔️ The challenges he overcame to build new regions ✔️ How steep the...

Today’s guest is Vivienne Hsu, Head of Marketing at Converge. In this episode, Vivienne shares her marketing journey, delves into the topic of diversity in Cyber Insurance, and provides insight into what sets Converge apart. Tune in to learn about: ✔️ Vivienne’s remarkable marketing journey ✔️ The new marketing paradigm ✔️ Insights into what sets Converge apart ✔️ The Importance of Diversity in Cy...

With two IPOs & eight acquisitions, Brian has helped build some of the most successful security companies in the world. He has over 25 years in the security industry as a security company entrepreneur, board advisor, investor, and author. After getting his start with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and later Bell Labs, Brian began the process of building security startups and tak...

Today’s guest we have Amjed Aboukhadijeh, Head of Sales at Socket. This is a special show where Amjed shares his journey, tips and tricks, and mission with Socket. Tune in to learn about: ✔️ Amjed’s journey from competitive runner to sales leader ✔️ Amjed’s tips for success in sales ✔️ What Socket is doing differently from its competitors ✔️ Challenges Socket has faced when scaling

Today’s guest we have Seth Spergel, Managing Partner and VP of Emerging Tech at Merlin Ventures. It’s no secret Merlin has invested in some of the most innovative Cybersecurity startups in Israel to date and is side by side with some of the bigger more established Cyber venture firms in the Israeli ecosystem. Seth shares his journey, the influence of his infamous partner Shay Michel and why you sh...

Today’s guest we have Gorka Sadowski, Chief Strategy Officer at Exabeam and Founder of the XDR Alliance. This is a special show where Gorka shares his journey and mission with the XDR Alliance. The XDR Alliance is a partnership of best-in-class security and information technology providers organized to help security teams easily design and implement effective threat detection, investigation, and r...

Today’s guest we Tom Kemp who is a Silicon Valley–based author, entrepreneur, investor, and policy advisor. Tom was the founder and CEO of Centrify, a leading cybersecurity cloud provider that amassed over two thousand enterprise customers, including over 60 percent of the Fortune 50 and over $100m Annual Revenue by the time he exited. In this episode we discuss: ✔️ What it takes to build a $100m...

This week’s guest is Chris Doman, Co-Founder & CTO at Cado Security. Chris was highly recommended to have on the pod having had a colourful start as a Teenage Hacker. He’s now on his second Cybersecurity startup having previously had a successful exit with Threatcrowd which was acquired by Alienvault and now most recently has founded Cado with Co-Founder James Campbell which was the First Clou...

This week’s guest is Lior Yaari, CEO & Co-Founder at Grip Security. Hot of the back of a $41m Series B Funding round, I got to chance to sit down with Lior and talk all things Grip Security. Lior’s story starts like all Israeli founders, coming out of the military and after spending time in automotive security, working at YL Ventures as part of the investment team he then decided to found Grip...

This weeks guest is Giora Engel, CEO & Co-Founder at Neosec now part of Akamai. Giora is no stranger to Cybersecurity start-up, having had 2 successful exits, first with LightCyber which he founded with one of my previous guests Michael Mumcuoglu which sold to Palo Alto Networks and more recently, his API Security startup NeoSec which has now formed as API Security Akamai. We Discuss: ✔️ API S...