CyberBytes: The Podcast

The benefit of a CyberBytes: The Podcast episode taking 18 months to finally record… the guest can get promoted to CEO!  

Between numerous rescheduled, Brian Roche recently stepped up from Chief Product Officer to CEO of Application Security leader, Veracode. Brian and I have gotten to know each other during setting this up, and it was great to be able to sit down in-person at RSA to hear his story. Tune in to learn… 

• What Veracode is doing to stay a Magic Quadrant Leader despite the droves of new AppSec vendors in the market 
• How his development background gave him the mindset and drive of making security easy  
• You’re never too senior to code and Brian still gets on the tools to help the products develop
• Brian’s 3 ingredients to making a great CEO 

Looking forward to seeing how Brian continues to evolve Veracode in his new CEO role! 

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Brian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianroche/ 

Veracode: https://www.veracode.com/ 

Oliver: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverlegg/ 

Aspiron: https://aspironsearch.com/ 

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Today’s guest is Rich Dandliker, Chief Strategist @ Veza an Identity Security Company.

Before joining Veza, Rich spent over 4 years at Okta overseeing their products through IPO.

In this episode, Rich and I cover: 

• Rich’s background and journey to Veza
• How the Identity space has evolved
• Challenges businesses face around Identity
• The problem that Veza solves
• How Veza is innovating within the Identity space
• What the future holds for Veza

#Cyberbytes #Veza #Identity

Rich’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-dandliker-591381/ 

Veza: https://www.linkedin.com/company/veza/ 

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

Aspiron Search: https://aspironsearch.com/ 

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Russell Spitler, CEO and Co-founder of Nudge Security, and I sat down on the last day of RSA during a hugely exciting week for the team! 

They announced their Series A raise via Forgepoint Capital, Evolution Equity and Squadra Ventures to propel them further in the SaaS Data Security space. 

Tune in to today's episode of CyberBytes: The Podcast RSA Edition to learn about… 

• Russ and his co-founder’s early background of building and selling their first security business to AT&T 
• The reins that working at a large corporation puts on new technology adoption 
• The challenge behind securely managing data held in SaaS applications that Nudge was founded to solve 
• The huge customer adoption that has come from their PLG model and fast installation
• How the involvement of the CFO has changed and evolved their selling process and positioning of the product 

Wishing Russ and his team the best of success following their A Round! 

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Russell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-spitler/

Nudge Security: https://www.nudgesecurity.com/

Oliver: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverlegg/ 

Aspiron: https://aspironsearch.com/

Today’s guest is Belsasar Lepe, Co-Founder & CEO at Cerby a comprehensive access management platform for nonstandard applications.

Bel is no stranger to building startups having had a very successful exit with Ooyala, now working on Cerby 

In this episode, we cover:

• Building a startup with people you can trust
• Key lessons from his first startup, and building his second
• Advice for aspiring founders 
• Cerby, SMS Two-Factor Authentication, AI and much more 

#cyberbytes #identityautomation #Cerby

Belsasar LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/belsasar-lepe-975a203/

Cerby - http://cerby.com/

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

Aspiron Search - https://aspironsearch.com/

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Today’s guest is Nic LaBuz, VP of GTM @ Endor Labs a Software Supply Chain Security Company.

Nic was appointed VP of GTM at Endor Labs 18 months ago jumping back into the startup space to scale Endor, from Palo. 

In this episode, Nic and I cover: 

• Nic’s background and journey to Endor Labs
• Nic’s learnings from moving big to small
• How Endor Labs are innovating 
• The evolution of the SCA space
• Challenges security teams face around OSS
• What the future holds for Endor Labs

#Cyberbytes #Endorlabs #SCA

Nic’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolaslabuz/ 

Endor Labs: https://www.linkedin.com/company/endorlabs/ 

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

Aspiron Search: https://aspironsearch.com/ 

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Alastair Paterson and his Co-founder Brian Woolgar-O’Neil were the youngest company to be part of this year's competition, which is a testament to what the team is doing in the GenAI Cybersecurity space. 

Alastair and I sat down for an episode of CyberBytes: The Podcast RSA Edition and he took me through… 

• 12 years of building and exiting DigitalShadows to ReliaQuest 
• The surprisingly fast itch to start something new after a successful exit 
• The tough lessons of DigitalShadows that are making his 2nd venture simpler 
• How the UK start-up scene was a hindrance and being in Silicon Valley makes things much easier 

Having spent time with Alastair at BlackHat 2023 after they came out of stealth, it was great to record this and talk about how far the business has come in such a short space of time. 

#cyberbytes #genai #aisecurity #harmonicsecurity 

Alastair LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alastair-paterson-2586445/

Harmonic Security: https://www.harmonic.security/

Oliver: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverlegg/

Aspiron Search: https://aspironsearch.com/

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Today’s guest is Daniel Barber, Co-Founder & CEO @ DataGrail a leading data privacy control center. 

Daniel dives into the Cyber adjacent world of Data Privacy and in this episode, we cover:

• Why there is such a disconnect with customers expecting control but businesses being out of control
• Regulation, the new federal bill in motion
• How it affects the CISO/CPO and what it means
• The DataGrail Annual Privacy trends report and key takeaways
• Data Privacy, Data Protection Impact Assessments, ShadowIT, ShadowAI, The DataGrail Summit and much more

#cyberbytes #dataprivacy #DataGrail

Daniel’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-barber/

DataGrail: https://www.datagrail.io/

Data Privacy Trends Report 2024: https://www.datagrail.io/resources/pdfs/privacy-trends-2024/

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

Aspiron Search: https://aspironsearch.com/

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Today’s guest is Gabe Deale, COO @ AKA Identity an IAM company that simplifies manual and inefficient identity and access management decisions with visibility, intelligence and action.

Gabe is a start-up junkie and has joined AKA to build and be part of a company setting the new industry standard.

In this episode, Gabe and I cover: 

• The story behind AKA and the problem they solve
• Gabe’s journey before joining AKA
• What to look for when considering a career move to a cyber startup
• How AKA is differentiating from its competition in the Identity space
• Gabe’s take on how the Identity space will evolve
• The best piece of advice Gabe has been given
• Advice Gabe would give to his younger self 

#Cyberbytes #Akaidentity #IAM

Gabe’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabe-deale-09b536/ 

AKA Identity: https://www.linkedin.com/company/akaidentity/ 

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

Aspiron Search: https://aspironsearch.com/ 

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Bob is a figurehead in the Cybersecurity ecosystem and has been involved with an impressive list of companies. During his CyberBytes: The Podcast RSA Edition episode, Bob and I talked about…  

• What led him to founding AllegisCyber Capital, the first security specific venture capital firm
• The story behind co-founding DataTribe with Michael Janke and how they cherry-pick some of the best folk from the NSA to achieve defense with offense 
• Insights into one of Bob’s best success stories, Dragos 
• The trends he’s seen over a 30-year career investing in security, and what he sees happening next 

Any security professional, founder and investor needs to check this episode out! 

Bob: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-ackerman-a233336/ 

AllegisCyber: https://allegiscyber.com/ 

DataTribe: https://datatribe.com/

Oliver: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverlegg/ 

Aspiron: https://aspironsearch.com/ 

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Today’s guest is J.J. Guy, Co-Founder & CEO at Sevco Security. An elite government hacker and pro paintballer, J.J. reveals all about Sevco Security

In this episode, we cover:

• His 12years in the military breaking into networks
• Sevco’s new Exposure Management capabilities, vulnerability prioritization, remediation, validation, and analytics
• The challenges running Cybersecurity startups
• Asset Inventory, RSA Sandbox 22, Segment, Time and much more

#cyberbytes #vulnerabilitymanagement #sevcosecurity

J.J. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjguy/

Sevco Security: https://www.sevcosecurity.com/

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

Aspiron Search: https://aspironsearch.com/

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