Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I spoke to Paul Kurtz, the cofounder and CEO of TruSTAR Technology. Paul was previously the CISO of CyberPoint and worked at the National Security Council earlier in his career. Threat sharing has become a hot topic of discussion in the security world and threat information sharing platforms such as TruSTAR have arrived to meet the demand. In the space of just a month, TruSTAR and threat sharing platforms ThreatConnect and ThreatQuotient all raised funding. TruSTAR allows companies to share threat information in a truly anonymous … Continue reading TruSTAR Cofounder and CEO, Paul Kurtz: Nick’s Newsletter No. 47

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I got the chance to speak to John Bruce, the Cofounder and CEO ofResilient Systems. John has argued that there are an abundance of security companies that provide detection and prevention capabilities, but very few that tackle the crucial task of responding to incidents once they occur. Now that companies must assume that they have already been breached and that they will be breached in the future, response capabilities are essential for a strong security program. John and I discuss the primitive methods that some … Continue reading Resilient Systems Cofounder and CEO John Bruce: Nick’s Newsletter No. 46

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. I hope everyone had a happy New Year! Since it’s a pretty slow news week, I wanted to take the time today to highlight some of the interesting facts that I learned from the people that I interviewed this year. Note that I could’ve written 100 interesting facts because I learned so much from all of my interviewees and it wasn’t easy narrowing it down to 10. Dmitri Alperovitch, CTO and Cofounder of Crowdstrike described the benefits of having a cloud-hosted security platform, arguing that the cloud … Continue reading 10 Things I learned from Interviewees in 2015: Nick’s Newsletter No. 45

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. I love speaking to entrepreneurs each week because the vision and excitement that they have for their companies and products is infectious. All the excitement in the world however, does them no good if nobody wants to buy that product. This week I had the amazing opportunity to speak to the person ultimately responsible for making a lot of those purchase decisions for his organization: Lockheed Martin CISO Jim Connelly. In the interview below, Jim and I discuss how Lockheed thinks about protecting itself against sophisticated adversaries, … Continue reading Lockheed Martin CISO Jim Connelly: Nick’s Newsletter No. 44