I Interview CloudLock CoFounder and VP of Business Development, Tsahy Shapsa: Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 6/22/15

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. You raised your Series A for Aprigo, which later became CloudLock, all the way back in 2008. Nowadays the need for cloud security companies seems obvious, but was it so obvious back then? Are enterprises thinking differently about the cloud now than they did when you started the company? Back in 2008 the cloud wasn’t obvious, therefore cloud security wasn’t either…that was our main friction in the market – we found ourselves having to convince customers in the validity of the public cloud model. With the pivot … Continue reading I Interview CloudLock CoFounder and VP of Business Development, Tsahy Shapsa: Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 6/22/15

I Interview Bromium Cofounder Gaurav Banga: Cybersecurity Newsletter week of 6/15/15

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I was lucky enough to speak to Gaurav Banga. As the cofounder and former CEO of Bromium, Gaurav is a big name in cybersecurity. Bromium is an endpoint protection solution that uses “micro-virtualization” technology to stop threats. This means that with Bromium’s technology, whenever a user performs a task on a computer such as clicking a link or downloading an attachment, a virtual container is created separate from the enterprise network. If the user downloads malware, it is kept in this completely isolated container. Banga likens … Continue reading I Interview Bromium Cofounder Gaurav Banga: Cybersecurity Newsletter week of 6/15/15

I Interview MalwareBytes Founder Marcin Kleczynski: Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 6/8/15

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I got to talk to Marcin Kleczynski, the founder and CEO of Malwarebytes. Marcin has a fascinating story. Marcin was a senior in high school working as a technician in a computer-repair shop back in 2004 when his own computer was infected with a virus. He tried Symantec and McAfee but none of the traditional antivirus software tools could remove the virus. Marcin found an online forum of people with similar issues and after his computer was fixed he started fooling around creating products to … Continue reading I Interview MalwareBytes Founder Marcin Kleczynski: Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 6/8/15

Jay Kaplan, Cofounder/CEO of Synack: Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 6/1/15

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I was lucky enough to interview Jay Kaplan, the cofounder and CEO of Synack. Synack provides a SaaS platform for bug bounty programs (consultants get paid when they find vulnerabilities) for companies, only Synack doesn’t use your average hackers–they’ve hired their own “red team” of security contractors that have significant experience in the cybersecurity space (they only accept 10% of applicants who apply to be contractors). Synack is a big name in the cybersecurity space and they’ve received $35mm in funding from top firms such as KPCB, Google … Continue reading Jay Kaplan, Cofounder/CEO of Synack: Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 6/1/15