CyberBytes: The Podcast

Today's guest on CyberBytes: The Podcast is Jim Alkove the CEO & Co-Founder of Oleria. 

Oleria provides adaptive and autonomous identity security solutions to protect and enable today’s dynamic enterprise.

In this episode, we cover:

#cyberbytesBH #identitysecurity #Oleria

Jim’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jalkove/

Oleria Website - https://www.oleria.com/

Joseph’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cybercoops/

Aspiron Search - https://aspironsearch.com/

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It was a pleasure to welcome Brooke Motta, CEO & Co-founder of RAD Security, on to the 2024 BlackHat Edition of CyberBytes. 

RAD is the only security vendor to have been finalists of both the 2024 RSA Innovation Sandbox, and the BlackHat Startup Spotlight Competition, which is a huge kudos to the product and team. 

Oliver Legg from Aspiron Search sat down with Brooke and dug into:

• How a 3-hour hike in Arizona led to joining forces with Co-founder, Jimmy Mester, to found K8 security vendor, KSOC
• The retro rebrand to RAD Security with the sunglasses wearing polar bear as its mascot to better suit the evolving Runtime Security vendor 
• Brooke’s impressive sales career with Rapid7 and Bugcrowd prior to RAD 
• The challenges that female founders face when raising and scaling companies, and Brooke’s positive outlook on how this can shift 

With Brooke & Jimmy at the helm, and impressive investors including Andrew Peterson, Alberto Yepez & Ron Gula, we have no doubt that RAD Security will achieve huge things. 

Brooke’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brookemotta/

RAD Security - https://www.linkedin.com/company/radsecurity/

Olly’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverlegg/

Aspiron Search - https://aspironsearch.com/

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It was a pleasure to welcome Emanuel Salmona, CEO & Co-Founder of Nagomi Security, on the 2024 BlackHat Edition of CyberBytes.

Nagomi came out of stealth in April this year with their A round led by TCV, CrowdStrike, and Okta. They have built a Proactive Defense Platform which helps organizations maximize the utilization of their existing security tools.

Steffen Foley from Aspiron Search sat down with Emanuel and dug into: 

• Emanuel’s background including living in 6 countries and speaking 6 languages
• How they secured their first 10 paying customers without a website
• What makes Nagomi’s platform unique  
• Some of the biggest challenges they faced in the early days and how they overcame them
• Key business objectives after coming out of stealth 
• The transition from founder led sales to GTM led sales
• Best of Breed vs Best of Suite

Emanuel’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/emanuelsalmona/ 

Nagomi Security -  https://nagomi.security/ 

Steffen’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffenfoley/

Aspiron Search - https://aspironsearch.com/

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It was a pleasure to welcome Benny Czarny, CEO & Founder of OPSWAT, on to the 2024 BlackHat Edition of CyberBytes. 

OPSWAT are a leading Cyber Security vendor who were bootstrapped many years ago and focus on protecting critical infrastructure across all areas of Cyber. 

During this episode Ben and Benny discussed: 

• The recent acquisition of InQuest which will help OPSWAT develop their robust Threat Intelligence solution and allow further growth in the DoD Space.
• Benny’s background in Engineering and all that time knowing he wanted to be a founder in Cyber Security and being able to create a Cyber Security language.
• His ‘lightbulb’ moment which led to bootstrapping OPSWAT
• Preparing OPSWAT for IPO, explaining the business is profitable and business is coming to them actively.

Benny’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennyczarny/

OPSWAT - https://www.opswat.com/

Ben’s LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-gascoigne-aa973317b/

Aspiron Search - https://aspironsearch.com/

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Kicking off CyberBytes: The Podcast BlackHat 2024 special edition with an absolute beast of a guest, Jay Leek, Managing Partner & Co-Founder at SYN Ventures. SYN Ventures is a venture capital firm primarily pursuing early-stage security sector opportunities run by security operators with decades of experience.

In this episode, we cover:

• Jay’s fascinating career from security operator to early-stage Cyber VC
• The real challenges for a CISO
• Starting SYN Ventures, the largest dedicated security seed fund and what differentiates SYN
• Jay’s investment thesis and meeting 550 security companies a year
• Advice to founders and the future of Cyber VC and SYN

#cyberbytes #cybervc #SYNventures 

Jay’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayleek/

SYN Website - https://www.synventures.com/

Joseph’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cybercoops/

Aspiron Search - https://aspironsearch.com/

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Today's guest is Lior Frenkel, CEO and Founder of Waterfall Security. Lior discusses his founding ideas of Waterfall and how they have evolved into new sectors and the very exciting recent release of their new product HERA.

Tune in to learn about;

• How the business went from very traditional OT verticals to now working with Casinos and Data Centres

• The recent release of Waterfall’s new product HERA

• The challenges that OT is giving us including an real life insight into the Colonial Pipeline Attack

• OT Problem today and how to make things better

If you would like to feature in the new OT CyberBytes series then please get in touch at [email protected]

Lior’s LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lior-frenkel-91534/

Waterfall’s LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/waterfall-security-solutions-ltd/posts/?feedView=all

Ben’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-gascoigne-aa973317b/

Aspiron Search LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/aspiron-search/

Today’s guest is Bob Bobel, Co-Founder & CEO @ Cayosoft, a leading solution for managing, monitoring and recovering Active Directory, Azure AD, and Office 365 platforms.

Hot off the back of the Stampede festival in Canada, I got the chance to sit down with Bob and cover all things Cayosoft.

In this episode, we cover:

• Cayosoft: Manage, Monitor and Recovery
• Recent developments and milestones
• Trends and innovation shaping the market
• The future for Cayosoft

#cyberbytes #adsecurity #cayosoft 

Bob’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertbobel/

Cayosoft - https://www.cayosoft.com

Joseph’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cybercoops/

Aspiron Search - https://aspironsearch.com/

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Today’s guest is Amy De Salvatore, Partner of Business Development & Platform at NightDragon. 

Since we announced the strategic talent partnership for North America with NightDragon, it was about time I had Amy on the show and she did not disappoint!

In this episode, Amy shares:

• Her career journey from business development and alliances to venture capital and how the dot com boom perked her interest in tech
• More on NightDragon, their investment strategy, and the NightScale platform and its core pillars.
• Market conditions, M&A, consolidation and platformisation
• The future of NightDragon and ensuring we “secure our world for tomorrow”
• The best advice anyone ever gave her

#cyberbytes #securetech #nightdragon

Amy’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-de-salvatore-995607/

NightDragon - https://www.nightdragon.com/

Joseph’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cybercoops/

Aspiron Search - https://aspironsearch.com/

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Today’s guest is Kabir Mathur, Co-Founder & CEO of Leen, a Unified Data API for Cybersecurity. 

We had an awesome chat about Leen’s modern security data fabric and why the security market needs a product like this.

Tune in to learn about: 

• Kabir’s journey into cybersecurity
• Leen’s pivot from AI to Cyber
• The interconnectedness of security data
• The explosion of cybersecurity tools and what this means
• Leen’s security data fabric

#Cyberbytes #Leen

Kabir’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathurkabir/ 

Leen: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leen-inc/ 

Steffen’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffenfoley/ 

Aspiron Search: https://aspironsearch.com/ 

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Today’s guest is Shashwat Sehgal, Co-Founder & CEO @ P0 Security, the leading platform for universal cloud-access governance that secures access for all identities - human and non-human - without affecting developer workflows.

After 10 years of attending RSA conference, Shashwat recently found himself on stage there as a finalist on stage at the RSA Innovation Sandbox. 

In this episode, we cover:

• The inspiration for P0 Security
• Why legacy systems were not set up for the cloud and governing access to the cloud
• Cutting through the noise within the identity space 
• How we can better educate the industry
• ISPM, Consolidation and the future for the identity space 

#cyberbytes #cloudaccess #P0security

Shashwat LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashwatsehgal/

P0 Security - https://p0.dev/

Joseph’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cybercoops/

Aspiron Search - https://aspironsearch.com/

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