CyberBytes: The Podcast

Today’s guest we have Gorka Sadowski, Chief Strategy Officer at Exabeam and Founder of the XDR Alliance. This is a special show where Gorka shares his journey and mission with the XDR Alliance.

The XDR Alliance is a partnership of best-in-class security and information technology providers organized to help security teams easily design and implement effective threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) capabilities using Open XDR. The mission of the alliance is to work in collaboration to make an open approach to XDR a reality for SecOps teams and help them effectively protect their organizations from adversarial behavior.

Today’s guest we Tom Kemp who is a Silicon Valley–based author, entrepreneur, investor, and policy advisor. Tom was the founder and CEO of Centrify, a leading cybersecurity cloud provider that amassed over two thousand enterprise customers, including over 60 percent of the Fortune 50 and over $100m Annual Revenue by the time he exited.

In this episode we discuss:

✔️ What it takes to build a $100m ARR business and the importance of great people

✔️ What looks for when he is angel investing and some of his current portfolio

✔️ His policy advisory involvement and the recent California Delete act

✔️ Tom’s new book Containing Big Tech and much more

This week’s guest is Chris Doman, Co-Founder & CTO at Cado Security. Chris was highly recommended to have on the pod having had a colourful start as a Teenage Hacker. He’s now on his second Cybersecurity startup having previously had a successful exit with Threatcrowd which was acquired by Alienvault and now most recently has founded Cado with Co-Founder James Campbell which was the First Cloud Forensics and Incident Response Platform

We Discuss:

✔️His early days as a teenage hacker, Cado Security and how they are helping enterprises post breach and what they are doing differently

✔️How things have evolved over the last 3.5years and their unique culture

✔️Their Root Cause Engineering Approach, Cloud Forensics and Incident Response and much more

This week’s guest is Lior Yaari, CEO & Co-Founder at Grip Security. Hot of the back of a $41m Series B Funding round, I got to chance to sit down with Lior and talk all things Grip Security. Lior’s story starts like all Israeli founders, coming out of the military and after spending time in automotive security, working at YL Ventures as part of the investment team he then decided to found Grip with his 2 Co-Founders Alon Shenkler and Idan Fast, Another Forbes 30 Under 30, Lior has just moved to Boston to crack the US and if you are not aware of Grip you should check out this episode

We Discuss:

✔️ Lior’s journey from Venture Capital to Cybersecurity startup founder

✔️ SaaS Security and the problem CISO’s are experiencing and how it’s evolved over the last 10years

✔️ How Grip is solving the SaaS Security problem and what they are doing differently and their plans for the future as well as much more

This weeks guest is Giora Engel, CEO & Co-Founder at Neosec now part of Akamai. Giora is no stranger to Cybersecurity start-up, having had 2 successful exits, first with LightCyber which he founded with one of my previous guests Michael Mumcuoglu which sold to Palo Alto Networks and more recently, his API Security startup NeoSec which has now formed as API Security Akamai.

We Discuss:

✔️ API Security and the breadth of the problem with vulnerabilities only being

part of it

✔️ The launch of Akamai API Security and their native connector

✔️ ShadowHunt, OWASP API Security Top 10, The future of API Security and

more

Having met Bill Moore, CEO & Founder of OT Security firm, XONA Systems, at RSA earlier this year, it was a pleasure to host him on CyberBytes: The Podcast!

Bill and his team are revolutionizing the way industrial sectors gain secure remote access to critical OT systems and have secured major wins across the OT sector in recent months.

Tune in to learn about:

✔️ How remote access in the OT world differs to IT

✔️ Bill's journey of a technology sales pro to founder of security vendor

✔️ The pitfalls technology founders hit when trying to break into the Federal space

✔️ The evolution of his role as CEO of few person start-up, compared to a 30-person business

Today’s guest we have Wasim Khaled CEO and Co-Founder at Blackbird.ai. Wasim is on a mission with his AI-driven Risk & Narrative Intelligence Platform dedicated to leading the global fight against disinformation.

The risk landscape has dramatically shifted for every industry. These risks are driven by a new breed of threat actors who exploit digital media to harm organizations, employees and executives. BlackBird's suite of solutions provides actionable risk intelligence for their customers and partners

Tanya sits down with Nathan Burke, CMO at Axonius and uncovers his journey from being the first US employee to building the fastest-growing security firm known for its out-of-the-box marketing strategies.

Nathan has witnessed first-hand how marketing has shifted from being an afterthought to being a pivotal function by CEOs and founders.

Tune in to listen to his impressive story and discover:

✔️ How presenting and winning the RSA Innovation Sandbox led to a game changing Fortune 500 POC.

✔️ How powerful marketing requires cutting through the noise and showcasing humans behind the hoodie.

✔️ What it was like growing the team from ground zero: Hiring, Leadership Strategies, and transitioning with growth.

✔️ What fellow marketers can do to fastrack their CMO path.

This week’s guest is Alon Jackson, CEO & Co-Founder at Astrix Security, after spending over a decade in the famous 8200 Unit, and leading R&D at Argus which was acquired for a rumored $500m he and his Co-Founder, Idan Gour, decided to found Astrix Security to manage and secure non-human identities.

We Discuss:

✔️ What exactly Astrix are doing so differently and how they are creating a new category

✔️ Their recent $25m Series A raise and the talent Astrix needs, particularly GTM for breaking the US

✔️ Consent Fatigue, RSA Sandbox, of course Gen AI, Alon’s move to the US and much much more

Brodie is joined by Tom Ricoy, CRO at Cigent where they disucss:

✔️ His role as a CRO & the journey how he got there.

✔️ How to successfully grow as an IC

✔️ What makes a successful Sales rep