Month: August 2015

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I Interview Drawbridge Networks CTO Tom Cross: Nick’s Newsletter No. 26

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Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I was lucky enough to talk to Tom Cross, the CTO of Drawbridge Networks. Tom has been in the security space for a long time. He has founded several companies and also worked at several large companies such as IBM and Lancope. He just recently left Lancope to become CTO Drawbridge Networks, a stealth-mode cybersecurity company backed by VCs such as Queensbridge, Bowery Capital, Paladin and others. Tom frequently speaks at conferences such as Black Hat and Def Con and has written many papers on … Continue reading I Interview Drawbridge Networks CTO Tom Cross: Nick’s Newsletter No. 26

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My 2014-15 Cybersecurity Venture Funding Report: Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 8/10/15

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Sign up for my newsletter to see interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. My Report: 2014-15 Cybersecurity Venture and M&A, What are the Trends For the past two weeks I’ve been going through some data on 2014 and 2015 cybersecurity funding and M&A and I decided to put together this report which I’ve uploaded to slide share. To make the report I downloaded funding data from my CB Insights student account and Mattermark’s Free Trial and I used Crunchbase for reference. Then I scrubbed the data and categorized all the companies into subsectors to look at trends. I’d love to hear any … Continue reading My 2014-15 Cybersecurity Venture Funding Report: Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 8/10/15

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I Interview Bluebox Security Founder Caleb Sima: Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 8/3/15

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Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I had the pleasure of talking to Caleb Sima, the Cofounder and Executive Chairman of Bluebox Security. Caleb was previously an entrepreneur in residence at Andreessen Horowitz (where he first started working on Bluebox) and was CEO of Armorize Technologies–a SaaS-based code security analysis company. Bluebox protects mobile applications and the data inside them. Bluebox has raised $27.5 million from A16Z, Tenaya, Queensbridge, and others. You’ve said that enterprises should be focusing on mobile data management, rather than mobile device management. Why is this shift … Continue reading I Interview Bluebox Security Founder Caleb Sima: Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 8/3/15

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Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 7/27/15

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Sign up for my newsletter to see interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. Unfortunately no guest this week, but once again there’s plenty of public and private cybersecurity activity. Hope everyone has an awesome time at Black Hat and thanks for reading! The News: Cylance Raises $42 Million from DFJ Growth The company provides a next-gen endpoint protection platform that uses artificial intelligence–not signatures, heuristics or sandboxing–to determine what’s good from what’s bad. Cylance CEO Stuart McClure was my first ever interviewee for the newsletter. Blue Coat Acquires Perspecsys Perspecsys is a cloud access security broker and Blue Coat’s acquisition follows Microsoft’s acquisition … Continue reading Cybersecurity Newsletter Week of 7/27/15