Originally published on my newsletter on 2/14. I start working at JMI Equity on Friday and we’ve decided to hold off on publishing the newsletter for a few weeks to give us time to figure out the best way to make it work in a fund that’s subject to various regulations with regards to its marketing practices. Thus, for the 51st issue, I wanted to recap the 38 interviews that I was lucky enough to hold over the past 50 weeks. I also wanted to note that after running last week’s interview, Hexadite CEO Eran Barak sent me some revised … Continue reading A Year in Interviews and a Break: Nick’s Newsletter No. 51

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I spoke to Eran Barak, the cofounder and CEO of Hexadite. Hexadite, like Resilient Systems (see my interview with cofounder and CEO John Bruce) operates in the emerging incident response market. Hexadite’s unique selling point is its automation; since the product performs many of the time intensive tasks involved in responding to incidents, such as collecting and analyzing data, companies can respond to incidents more quickly and with fewer analysts. Hexadite is used by such companies as telecom and payments provider IDT, whose CSO talked about … Continue reading Hexadite Cofounder and CEO Eran Barak: Nick’s Newsletter No. 50

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I got the chance to speak to Jim Routh, the CSO of Aetna and one of the most experienced information security professionals in the game right now. Prior to being named Aetna’s CSO, Jim served as Aetna’s CISO for several years, served as head of application, mobile and internet security at JP Morgan Chase (pre-breach), and was the CISO of KPMG. Jim also serves as Chairman of the National Health ISAC and a Board Member of the FS-ISAC. Jim is a frequent speaker at RSA and … Continue reading Aetna CSO Jim Routh: Nick’s Newsletter No. 49

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I talked to Lou Manousos of RiskIQ. RiskIQ is unique in that they protect companies from threats that exist outside their corporate networks. This type of protection is becoming increasingly necessary as the amount of potential attack vectors outside of corporate networks continues to grow exponentially–think social media and mobile. In the interview below, Lou and I discuss how he convinces corporations to buy his product, RiskIQ’s recent acquisition of PassiveTotal, and how he chose to raise money from Battery and Summit. I’ve read that … Continue reading RiskIQ Cofounder and CEO Lou Manousos: Nick’s Newsletter No. 48