CyberBytes: The Podcast

Today’s guest we have Benny Lakunishok, Co-Founder & CEO at Zero Networks, a fully automated platform for zero trust segmentation and remote access. 

Benny has been busy the last 5years working on Zero Networks. After 3years of building the product, he and the team felt it was time to go to market and last year did not disappoint with them completing their Series B $20m funding round and achieving 5x revenue growth.

In this episode, we cover:

• The root causes of Cybersecurity attacks
• Why attackers are still winning and how Zero Networks is stopping them
• The harsh reality of founding a startup 
• Practical advice for security practitioners
• BlueHound, Network Security, MicroSegmentation,  and much more

Today’s guest we have Jake Seid, Co-Founder & General Partner of Ballistic Ventures an early stage cybersecurity and security-related venture fund.

This isn’t Jake’s first rodeo, having been Managing Director at Lightspeed and Founder and Managing Director at Stone Bridge Ventures. Ballistics debut fund was $300m and they recently celebrated their first exit with Talon Cybersecurity.

In this episode, we cover:

• Jakes journey from Product to VC 
• The Cybersecurity TAM and Ballistics investment thesis and why companies fundraise with them.
• What Jake looks for when making his investments
• The difference with Cyber specific vs generalist funds
• His advice for early stage Cybersecurity founders looking to fundraise and scale and much more.

#cyberbytes #cybervc #ballisticventures

On today’s episode of CyberBytes The Podcast I welcome the King of the Security Metaphor, Richard Bird!Richard talks about his tequila fuelled decision to move from construction project management into IT and the serendipitous events that led him to being the Chief Security Officer for API security vendor, Traceable.Richard and I also cover how the role of the CISO, the weight the role now holds on the individual in the job, and the impact that the CISO not being a true member of the C-suite has. This is not talked about enough despite high profile cases like Joe Sullivan and Uber, and I’m glad Richard does not shy away from his views on this.This is a meaty episode with great topics and Richard was a pleasure to record withYouTube & Spotify links in the comments.

Today’s guest is Ken Zalevsky, CEO at VigilantOps the pioneer of SBOMs and vulnerability management.

In this episode we cover:

Evolution of cybersecurity in the healthcare and medical device space over the last 2 decades.

Real word attacks and breaches that changed from losing records to losing lives and birthed changes in regulations.

Ken’s founding journey and the SBOMs & vulnerability management need.

Ken’s vision to safeguard and contribute to the security of healthcare and other industries.

💡Ken's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-zalevsky-187b3/

💡 Vigilant Ops: https://www.vigilant-ops.com/ 

💡 Tanya’s LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyasethi1/ 

💡 Aspiron Search: https://aspironsearch.com/ 

Today’s guest we have Grant Geyer, Chief Product Officer at Claroty a leading Cyber Physical Systems Security firm.

I managed to catch Grant whilst he was traveling through NYC at Claroty HQ’s and although we had both been up since 4am this episode was a ton of fun full of insights into the fascinating OT security space.

In this episode we cover:

• Grants background starting in technical intelligence to joining Claroty where he is now pursuing a career aligned to protecting the world.  
• The unique Extended IoT Security problem and the potential impacts of Cyber attacks on such systems.
• The challenges for CISO’s at asset owners and some practical advice for practitioners 
• US regulation, the Medigate acquisition, the future for Claroty and much more 

#cyberbytes #IoTSecurity #claroty

Today’s guest we have Mickey Bresman, CEO at Semperis the pioneer of identity-driven cyber resilience for cross-cloud and hybrid environments.

I had the privilege of speaking to Mickey out of his headquarters in Hoboken, New Jersey on my trip to NYC last week and he definitely made the trip across water worth it!

In this episode we cover:

• Mickeys founding journey and the Active Directory (AD) Disaster Recovery and Security problem space
• Real world cases studies and the catastrophic impacts of these events 
• Semperis mega growth and managing cultivating a culture which landed them in best workplaces to work for the last 2years running.
• How Mickey has created a notion of “a Force for Good” and what his team are doing for their communities 
• The future for AD Security and much more

Today’s guest is Uzair Ahmed, CTO and Co-Founder at Right-Hand Cybersecurity. In this episode, Uzair shares his journey to entrepreneurship, gives insight into the problem Right-Hand Cybersecurity solves, and key learnings from navigating through turbulent markets.

Tune in to learn about:

• Uzair’s journey to entrepreneurship 
• The idea behind Right-Hand Cybersecurity
• Uzair’s key learnings for navigating through uncertain times
• The importance of staying lean
• Gamification of cybersecurity training
• Common mistakes of human-inflicted attacks
• Space learning concept 

If you would like to be our next guest or are looking to hire Technical or Go-To-Market Cybersecurity Talent please get in touch via [email protected]

Uzair’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzairshah/ 

Right-Hand Cybersecurity: https://www.linkedin.com/company/righthandai/  

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

Aspiron Search: https://aspironsearch.com/

Today’s guest we have Joel Fulton CEO at Lucidum, a asset discovery company that elimates blind spots across the cloud, security and IT operations. 

Joel is a right character, who’s original career goal was to be a firefighter he found himself falling into IT and then security. The energy Joe created on this pod lasted throughout the day for me and so no wonder hes a exceptional leader. 

In this episode we cover:

• Remote working before it was a thing and his experience at Google and why it’s not the right place for everyone
• Lucidum and how they give full asset visibility
• The Silicon Valley CISO Investments (SVCI) angel syndicate and their investment thesis
• Joels advice to founders and much more

#cyberbytes #assetvisibility #lucidum

Today’s guest is Feross Aboukhadijeh, CEO at Socket. In this episode, Feross shares his open source journey, why he started Socket to improve OSS security, common supply chain security mistakes and he provides insight into the future of supply chain security.

Tune in to learn about:

• Feross’s journey into open source 
• Common mistakes companies make when it comes to supply chain security
• How Socket helps protect against supply chain attacks
• Insights on software supply chain security
• How Socket caught the Ledger attack ahead of their competition
• The future of supply chain security 

If you would like to be our next guest or are looking to hire Technical or Go-To-Market Cybersecurity Talent please get in touch via [email protected]

Feross’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/feross/ 

Socket: https://www.linkedin.com/company/socketinc/

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

Aspiron Search: https://aspironsearch.com/

Today’s guest we have Philipp Pointner, Chief of Digital Identity at Jumio, a leading digital identity verification platform that helps verify and detect fraudulent identities and transactions online. 

Philipp is a passionate product management guy, having started at Jumio over 12 years ago as their Chief Product Officer he handed the baton to Bala Kumar and now sits as Chief of Digital Identity.  

A slightly different episode in terms of content to what I am used to as we dive into identity fraud and cover:

What is digital identity and identity fraud and what Jumio are doing about it.

How GenAI has evolved and how Jumio are using it to safeguard users as well as how fraudsters are also using it

Identifying fraud patterns and transactions

Fraudster goals, enterprise risks, Fraud GPT, Deepfakes and much more

#cyberbytes #digitalidentity #jumio