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Ron Gula is a cybersecurity pioneer, venture capitalist, and the visionary founder behind Tenable. Having bootstrapped his way to a $50 million Series A and scaled one of the industry's most recognizable brands, Ron has witnessed the highs and lows of company building. In this episode, we explore the authentic culture he established during Tenable's early days, the critical mistakes founders make...

JJ is an elite marketing visionary and category creator, shaping the narrative for cybersecurity giants like Tanium, Tenable, and CrowdStrike. In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the birth of the "Exposure Management" category at Tenable, exploring the strategic shift from legacy vulnerability management to holistic risk framing pre-IPO. JJ breaks down the "magic triangle" of category cre...

Craig Adams is a seasoned cybersecurity product leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling industry-defining tools. Having served as the Chief Product Officer at Rapid7 and Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Recorded Future, Craig has steered some of the most prominent teams in enterprise tech through massive evolutionary shifts. In this episode, we unpack how the age of AI...

Aysha is a technology executive with over 25 years in cybersecurity, most recently serving as CISO and CIO at Treasure Data. Known for her "spiritual CISO" persona, she blends deep operational experience with a monk-like clarity — cutting through vendor noise with equal parts wisdom and candor. In this episode, we explore the frustrations behind her Buyer's Seat series, the chronic delivery proble...

In this episode, we sit down with Brian Martin — 33-year vulnerability historian and longtime OSVDB maintainer — to trace the chasm between what CVE actually tracks and what's really out there. Brian explains why VulnCheck's KEV is 3.5x bigger than CISA's, why the real public vulnerability count is missing somewhere between 500K and several million entries, and how he personally mined 105,000 vuln...

In this episode, we sit down with investor Pramod to break down the deals, valuations, and strategic plays reshaping cybersecurity and AI. Pramod unpacks Nikesh Arora's "sell-to-me-or-I-build-it" M&A playbook, the dirty economics behind AI darlings like Cursor and Claude Code, and the looming SaaSpocalypse pitting AI startups against legacy vendors for the same IT budget. The conversation digs...

In this episode, Mehul sits down with vulnerability management influencer Patrick Garrity to unpack the rapidly shifting landscape of vulnerability exploitation. Patrick discusses how his unique data visualizations put CISA KEV on the map, but reveals the hidden limitations of the federal catalog today. He breaks down the recent geopolitical and funding crises paralyzing NIST’s NVD, highlighting h...

Ed Bellis is the visionary who essentially created the Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM) category in 2010. From his days as CISO at Orbitz to founding Kenna Security in a market that didn't yet know it needed prioritization, Ed has consistently pushed the boundaries of cybersecurity. In this episode, Ed unpacks the grueling reality of convincing early investors and customers to put their...

Cole Grolmus is the ultimate "N of one" in cybersecurity media. After a decade at PwC and a failed startup, he hit reset, writing a 65,000-word reflection that birthed Strategy of Security. Today, he cuts through the industry noise with brutally honest, deeply researched strategy analysis. In this episode, Cole breaks down his viral cybersecurity ecosystem map, the dangerous reality of blitzscalin...

HD Moore started the Metasploit framework project in 2003, forever changing the game on offensive security. Today, he serves as the CEO of runZero, mapping out global networks from behind the firewall. In this episode, we dive into the scrappy early days of internet security and dumpster diving for computer parts, why the AI revolution might make traditional vulnerability research and CVEs obsolet...

Renaud Deraison started the Nessus project in 1998 and co-founded Tenable, fundamentally changing how the world handles defensive cybersecurity. Today, he is leveraging AI to build and ship open-source security tools in a matter of weeks. In this episode, we dive into the early days of internet security and hardware scarcity , why the AI revolution might make traditional AppSec obsolete , and the...