CyberBytes: The Podcast

Today’s guest we have Carlson Choi, CEO @ Cork a company built to create the first and only cyber risk monitoring and warranty product for the MSP community. Recently emerged out of stealth with a $6m seed funding and an intent to disrupt the existing Cyber insurance players by offering a different form of coverage that is easier to purchase through small business trusted MSP Partner.

We Discuss:

✔ The inspiration behind starting Cork and the problem they aim to solve

✔ Creating a Cyber Protection Product specifically for the MSP space

✔ The reason for Increasing Cyber Premiums but with less coverage and the difference between Cyber warranties & Cyber Insurance

✔ Cork's warranty is backed by an inside-out approach to active risk monitoring, detection and remediation.

This week we sit down with Diana Massaro, CMO at Skyhigh Security. A fascinating story of becoming an industry-respected CMO and a leader that inspires and encourages others. Tune in to listen to some awesome insights!

We Discuss:

✔ Diana's Journey into Marketing

✔ The difference between a VP of Marketing vs a CMO and what it takes to get there

✔ Building Skyhigh and her due diligence process on potential employers

✔ Building a Marketing function from scratch, including hiring and training

✔ Balancing Life & Work and being seen as a great leader reinforcing a positive remote culture

Today’s guest we have Andrew Morris, CEO & Founder @Greynoise. Andrew’s passion for the industry explodes in this episode. A fascinating career journey to date having found himself exploiting computer systems from the age of 13 to

running Greynoise a platform that analyzes Internet background noise, removes customers' pointless security alerts, finds compromised devices, and identifies emerging threats.

We Discuss a ton:

✔ Emerging Threats, The Mass Exploitation Report and celebrity Vulnerabilities including a 25yr old vulnerability X Server

✔ How Greynoise is saving its customers hundreds of thousands of $$$

✔ His worst and best security advice, The Greynoise hiring process and much much more

Today's guest we have Rahul Powar, Founder and CEO of Red Sift, a venture-backed cognitive Cybersecurity platform. Previously, Rahul served as VP/Head of Advanced Products at Thomson Reuters Corporation which he joined when his start-up Apsmart was acquired in 2012. A technologist and entrepreneur who loves building software and using technology to solve problems he lifts the lid on some of the newest tech and generative AI.

We Discuss:

✔ Red Sift and the advantaged technologies they are using and how they help enterprises

✔ His early access to Open.AI GPT3 in 2020 and the benefits and cons of opensource Generative AI

✔ Business Email Compromise, the future of AI and much much more

Aspiron were excited to welcome Robin Berthier, CEO & Co-founder of Network Perception, on to Cyberbytes: The Podcast. Oliver uncovered Robin’sunique and an impressive journey from PhD researcher to CEO of a VC-backed cybersecurity company.

Having never been exposed to a commercial environment, Robin had to learn how to build an effective go-to-market and leadership team all whilst developing a world-class OT security product.

Tune in to learn about his journey!

Today’s guest we have Shashank Tiwari, CEO & Co-Founder at Uno.ai. Shashank is a serial entrepreneur and in this episode reveals all about building a successful start-up.

Uno is the thinking machine you need to understand and protect systems across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Multiply forces, get every newbie to work at the level of an expert, and reduce time to respond with Uno ASAP (Autonomous Security Analyst Co-Pilot)! Using some fresh ideas from the world of autonomous and AI-driven systems, Uno covers the full scope of comprehensive visibility, deep cognition, effective detection, thorough root cause analysis, causality discovery, and high precision control. Uno is headquartered in Palo Alto. It is backed by some of the smartest security operators and investors in silicon valley.

Shashank and I discuss:

✔ Shashank's take on the DNA required to build a company (skills and

behaviours)

✔ The importance of research gathering before starting to build a product

✔ Common mistakes founders make and his advice to first-time start-up founders

In this week's episode, Brodie sits down with Alex Mitchell, CRO at Fleet DM where they discuss:

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

✔ The transition from being in a technical role to sales.

✔ Leadership Vs. Individual Contributor

Today’s guest we have Robert Johnston, CEO at Adlumin. A fascinating career from the battlefield to the boardroom. Rob founded Adlumin to build the comprehensive, integrated and collaborative security operations platform he wished he had when investigating incidents for the Marines, NSA and CrowdStrike. Adlumin provides a modern security operations platform and managed detection and response services that bring the type of enterprise-grade security to mid-market organizations that have – for too long – only been accessible to the world’s largest organizations.

We Discuss:

✔ Rob’s entrepreneurial nature and the foundations for building Adlumin

✔ Why he always planned to be a mid-market play over an enterprise player

✔ The challenges associated with being a purely mid-market play

✔ Channel Partners, Security consolidation and much more

Today’s guest we have Adam Bateman, CEO & Co-Founder at Push Security. Having started his career in a purely offensive security role he later switched and established MWR’s defence practice defending their customers against sophisticated adversaries and state-sponsored attacks. Now having founded Push with Tyrone Erasmus & Jacques Louw spills the beans on all things SaaS App Security.

We Discuss:

✔ His and his Co-Founders transition from a purely red-team offensive security position to defensive security

✔ Why building an amazing business with a great Culture, Brand, Meaning & Purpose is so important

✔ How big the SaaS App Security problem is and why it’s so important for ALL enterprises to secure

✔ Some of the research Push is currently undertaking and much much more.

Today’s guest we have Security Evangelist Augusto Barros. Augusto is my first Canadian guest who has a wealth of security industry experience and right now his sole role is working to deliver the best threat cloud native detection and response solution with Securonix.

We Discuss:

His role as a Cybersecurity Security Evangelist

The Securonix product and how the solution has evolved organically over the years and the future of SIEM solutions

Vendor consolidation, Threat Detection Engineering, generative AI and much more