Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I interview James Foster of ZeroFox. ZeroFox aims to reduce and manage the risks posed to organizations by social media through reconnaissance, asset protection and attack monitoring. ZeroFox has previously raised $13mm from NEA, Comcast Ventures and others. Check out the awesome interview below and let me know what you think! When you think enterprise security, you don’t traditionally think social media security (though 60 Minutes has helped to change that). What was the impetus for starting a company focused on social media security? Social media has become … Continue reading I Interview ZeroFox CEO James Foster: Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 5/25/15

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. You might remember my guest from several weeks ago, Stephen Boyer. He featured the questions that I asked him on the BitSight blog! He expanded on his answers since our interview so I recommend that everyone check it out. This week I was lucky enough to interview Alan Matthews. Alan himself has a fascinating story. Leaving England at 21 and moving to New York City, he went on to found five companies. One of those companies is Rapid7–one of the largest private cybersecurity companies and a apparently an IPO candidate. … Continue reading Interview with Rapid7 Cofounder Alan Matthews: Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 5/18/15

Sign up for my newsletter to see my interviews with the top names in cybersecurity. No guest this week but a bunch of exciting guests coming soon! Thanks for reading. The News: Defense Department’s tech investing signals Silicon Valley’s importance in cyberwarfare Last month, the DoD announced that it would be funding cybersecurity startups that can “help the Pentagon develop more advanced cybersecurity and intelligence systems to fend off nation states and hackers targeting everything from top-secret military correspondence to public power grids.” The RSA Conference: Advanced Persistent Threats Meet Advanced Persistent Marketing Great article describing how next-generational firewalls work and how Bromium … Continue reading Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 5/11/15

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I was lucky enough to talk to Lookout’s Cofounder/CTO Kevin Mahaffey for 20 minutes over the phone. Kevin founded Lookout with two friends while he was still an undergrad at USC and the mobile security company is now valued at over $1bn! They most recently raised a $150mm round in August 2014 led by T Rowe. In news this week, A16Z just finished a series of podcasts on security and I give highlights of a few of them in this newsletter. More highlights of the remaining podcasts … Continue reading I Interview Lookout Cofounder/CTO Kevin Mahaffey: Cybersecurity Newsletter 5/4/15

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. Sending this out on Sunday this week to try something new. This week I was lucky enough to interview Matthew Tamayo, Founder and CEO of Kryptnostic. Matthew left Palantir in 2014 to found Kryptnostic – a tool to facilitate search within encrypted files. Kryptnostic raised $2mm in seed funding several months ago. Any feedback? Ways that I could make this newsletter more useful? Please let me know. Thanks for for reading! Your main product is encrypted search in the cloud. What made you realize this was a problem? Why … Continue reading I Interview Kryptnostic CEO, Matthew Tamayo: Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 4/27/15