Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I talked to Ang Cui, the cofounder and CEO of Red Balloon Security. Ang recently received his PhD from Columbia University in the Intrusion Detection Systems Laboratory. At Columbia, Ang’s research focused on the exploitation and defense of embedded devices, and Ang spun out this work to create Red Balloon Security. I’ve had several job interviews recently and Red Balloon Security is one of my go-to answers to the question “What’s a company that you think is interesting?” Ang is really technical but also very charismatic (see … Continue reading Ang Cui of Red Balloon Security: Nick’s Newsletter No. 31

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I spoke to Sophia D’Antoine, a security engineer at Trail of Bits which is a high end security consulting firm. Sophia recently completed her masters in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she focused her studies on malicious applications of hardware side channels in virtualized environments. As a security consultant, Sophia provided an interesting perspective that’s very different from many of the entrepreneurs and investors that I’ve interviewed. You were working for a bunch of large operating companies before you left for Trail of Bits which is more … Continue reading Sophia D’Antoine of Trail of Bits: Nick’s Newsletter No. 30

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I was lucky enough to talk to Cory Scott–LinkedIn’s Director of House Security and David Cintz, the Senior Technical Program Manager for LinkedIn’s Security Ecosystem. This was a great interview for me because this was the first time I’d talk to people running the security operation at a massive company. Check out the awesome interview below. Cory, you’re the director of Information Security at LinkedIn and David you’re the Senior Technical Program Manager for LinkedIn’s Security Ecosystem, can you guys describe what you do on … Continue reading Cory Scott and David Cintz of LinkedIn’s House Security Team: Nick’s Newsletter No. 29

Sign up for my newsletter to see more interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. This week I was lucky enough to talk to Dmitri Alperovitch. Dmitri is the cofounder and CTO of CrowdStrike–a next-gen endpoint protection platform. Dmitri previously worked at CipherTrust and was the VP of Threat Research at McAfee. This interview is longer than usual but it’s 100% worth reading all the way through. I learned so much from our conversation. Thanks for reading! You were one of MIT Technology Review’s Top 35 Innovators Under 35, you were named as one of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers … Continue reading I Interview CrowdStrike Cofounder Dmitri Alperovitch: Nick’s Newsletter No. 28

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

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

Sign up for my newsletter to see interviews with the biggest names in cybersecurity. No interview today but I’ve got a few exciting guests coming up. Lots of activity in both the public and private cybersecurity markets this week. Check out the highlights below and thanks for reading! Microsoft Signs LOI to Acquire Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) Adallom for $320M Adallom was founded in 2012 and was funded by Sequoia and Index Ventures among others. Microsoft’s purchase is the first major acquisition in the CASB space although the space has seen a lot of venture activity. Palantir Raising $500M at a $20B … Continue reading Adallom, Rapid7 and Lots more Activity in the Cyber Marketplace: Cybersecurity Newsletter: 7/26/15