CyberBytes: The Podcast

Today’s guest is Michael Hans, VP of Engineering at Picnic Corporation. In this episode, Michael takes us on his journey into the realms of engineering and Cybersecurity, he shares invaluable insights on building high-performing engineering teams, offers tips for engineers when considering equity, and delves into the future trends of cybersecurity.

Tune in to learn about:

• Michael’s journey with IronNet from Series A to IPO
• Tips on building high-performing engineering teams
• Social engineering attacks 
• Equity - chose your path
• Future cyber trends

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]

Today’s guest we have Galit Lubetzky Co-Founder & CEO @ Wing Security, a leading SaaS Security Posture Management solution that provides full visibility and control over your applications, users and data. 

Galit retired as a colonel in the IDF after 23 years, and decided to found Wing Security just a couple of months after the pandemic. Since launching she has been on a mission to secure businesses from SaaS application threats and with over 300,000 SaaS apps classified she has a big task.

We discuss:

Wing Security, their use cases and their FREE SaaS Discovery 

Some of the attack techniques for SaaS and how have they evolved?

The State of SaaS Security Report and much more

Today’s guest is Matthew Warner, CTO and Co-Founder at Blumira. In this episode, Matt shares his journey into cybersecurity and entrepreneurship, he provides valuable insights into the evolution of SIEM and XDR, and offers advice to early-stage Founders.

Tune in to learn about:

• Matt’s journey from dropping out of college to becoming a serial entrepreneur 
• The idea behind Blumira
• Evolution of SIEM and XDR
• Advice for early-stage Founders 

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]

Today’s guest we have Chris Denbigh-White, Chief Security Officer at Next DLP a leading provider of insider risk and data protection solutions.

This episode was a ton of fun, Chris talks about his experience transitioning from law enforcement to the private sector and shares his advice to others looking to make the transition.  

We discuss at depth ransomware, its driving factors, how’s it’s evolved and ultimately the organizational shift from reactive ransomware detection to proactive prevention, topping off with his top prevention steps organisations should be taking to avoid attacks.

Today’s guest we have Javed Hasan, Co-Founder and CEO at Lineaje a Cybersecurity startup that provides software supply chain security solutions, 

Javed has over 20 years of experience in product management and has built and scaled successful, high-growth product lines for enterprise and consumer markets having managed more than 50 products through the entire product lifecycle. 

Happy New Year!

Today’s guest is John Williamson, VP of North American Sales at SOCRadar. In this episode, John shares his learnings from interviewing thousands of sales folks, we discuss how the B2B buyer persona is changing, and John gives insight into how SOCRadar’s new team-focused approach is winning!

Tune in to learn about:

• What attributes make a top-performing sales rep
• How the B2B buy persona is changing
• Insight into how SOCRadar is breaking the traditional sales comp plan status quo

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]

Today’s guest we have the infamous Dave DeWalt. Founder & CEO at NightDragon. 

Dave is a 4x CEO and security industry titan. Having grown up in Pennsylvania, he studied Computer Science at the University of Delaware, to my surprise also spending his spare time training as a Wrestler! Upon graduating and not really knowing what he wanted to do he heard about the Silicon Valley dream and decided to pack his belongings with no job secured and travel across the US in his Pontiac t1000 where his dream become a reality.

As CEO, Dave went on to having 2 of his companies acquired for an incredible $1.9b (Documentum) and $7.7b (McAfee)

A truly inspiring story from a humbling legend, this one is not to be missed,

We discuss:

• Dave’s mission for NightDragon (Securing our world for tomorrow) and his investment thesis
• His advice to startup founders, the 4 H’s and 3 T’s
• How important surrounding yourself with great people is
• NightDragon’s future and Dave's prediction for the Cybersecurity space in 2024.

Today’s guest we have Anna Belak – Director, Office of Cybersecurity Strategy at Sysid.

Anna has nearly ten years of experience researching and advising organizations on cloud adoption with a focus on security best practices. As a Gartner Analyst, Anna spent six years helping more than 500 enterprises with vulnerability management, security monitoring, and DevSecOps initiatives. 

Anna is now the Director of the Office of Cybersecurity at Sysdig, using her deep understanding of the security industry to help IT professionals succeed in their cloud-native journey.

Today’s guest is Andy Fogila, Director of Engineering at JupiterOne. In this episode, Andy shares his journey into engineering, provides insight from his transition from IC to Management, and delves into the topic of Corporate vs Startup environment.

Tune in to learn about:

• Andy’s first lesson and failure
• Andy’s crash course into engineering leadership
• What the first 3 months looks like as a leader in a startup
• Insights into what life is like at a startup vs corporate

Today Oliver Legg welcomed Harshil Parikh, CEO and Founder of code to cloud security vendor, Tromzo. Over the past 3 years the business has gone from strength to strength and is being regularly adopted by new enterprise security teams to solve real world application security problems. 

Harshil and Oliver also talk about the incredible work he does as a Co-founder of the Silicon Valley CISO Investment group, helping early stage security vendors thrive and grow.