CyberBytes: The Podcast

Today’s guest we have Thomas Pace, CEO & Co-Founder at Netrise. Tom’s passion for Cybersecurity oozes out in this episode. Having identified a better way to do some of the manual tasks he was doing whilst employed at Cylance he decided to found Netrise and hasn’t looked back since.

We Discuss:

✔ His journey to founding Netrise and the importance of having a great Co-Founder Michael Scott

✔ His recent aggressive hiring whilst everyone else is doing layoffs

✔ Firmware Security and the big problems associated with it.

✔ The Executive Order, Software Attestation Requirements and much more

This week’s guest we have Liran Tancman, CEO of Rezilion. Liran has a super

unique background, having joined the military intelligence unit in a non-cyber role and studying Brain Science at University he is now on his 2nd Cybersecurity startup having had a first successful exit to Paypal in just 15 months with Cyactive.

We discuss:

✔ How his wife instigated the idea for his first venture Cyactive and it be acquired by Paypal for $60m!

✔ Lirans’ motivations for starting Rezilion and why he decided on entrepreneurship over becoming a VC

✔ Why starting his second startup with Shlomi his previous co-founder made so much sense

✔ What Rezilion is doing differently and how they save the security team TIME as well as their new runtime agentless.

✔ The future for Software Supply Chain Security and Rezilion and much much more

This week’s guest we have Armaan Mahbod, Director of Security and Business Intelligence at DTEX Systems. A seasoned insider threat investigator and researcher, currently directing the investigation, research, and content development teams for DTEX Systems where he has spent almost the last 7 years. In this episode, Armaan reveals all about the Insider Threat.

We Discuss:

• What exactly the insider threat is and why is it so important
• The difference between insider risk and insider threat
• The motivations and reasons for the insider threat
• What enterprise executives can do to mitigate the insider threat and much more

This week’s guest we have Kiran Kamity, CEO and Founder of Deepfactor.

Having moved to Silicon Valley for his undergrad it seems the last 20 years have gone by with a blink. 3x serial founder, currently building the next generation of Application Security tooling he reveals all about his journey and Deepfactor.

We discuss:

✔ Working at both big corporates and small startups with 2x successful exits

✔ Building great systems/products that touch on all cloud-native (virtualization, containerization and Kubernetes)

✔ The next generation of Application Security tooling and what Deepfactor is doing differently

✔ The Deepfactor SANS DevSecOps Analyst Report and much much more.

In this week's episode, we're joined by Byrson Bort. He gives the unique perspective of a 3x founder of GRIMM an offensive security services company, Scythe a next-gen adversary emulation tool Scythe, and the ICS Security Village the non-profit (and a cooking show!).

Tune in to listen to his story and:

✔ How a military nickname turned into a brand story across 2 companies

✔ His journey from Seed to Series A in what Bryson describes as Scrappy - Honeymoon - Wilderness - Execution stages

✔ What it was like hiring and handing over the helm of GRIMM to the CEO

✔ What it’s like building a business for a market that does not exist yet

This week’s guest we have Kunal Agarwal, CEO of Dope Security. After almost going to jail, Kunal took a turn and managed to graduate from the University of Berkeley. Symantec alumni and first-time Google ventures portfolio founder, Kunal reveal all about Dope in this episode.

Key Takeaways

- Why passion is so important to Kunal and how it’s embedded into Dope.Security Culture and hiring process

- The different stages to raising and the importance of collaboration

- How Kunal ensures Dope.Security provides a first-class experience and much more

This week’s guest we have Michael Mumcuoglu, CEO & Co-Founder of CardinalOps. Michael is an Israeli Unit 8200 veteran and serial entrepreneur. Having successfully exited LightCyber to Palo Alto Networks in 2017, he and co-founder Yair Manor decided to go for it again and launched CardinalOps. Here is the story so far...

We talk about:

✔ Going through a successful exit and transition, leveraging PAN to enhance the product and take it to the next level. Now called CortexXDR which recently hit a $1bn revenue milestone

✔The importance of having a thoughtful company name and brand

✔ How to build a second company, with all the lessons learned from his first successful exit and much more

This week's guest we have CEO and Co-Founder of runZero Chris Kirsch. Chris tells us his secrets to building a great culture within his business and shares some of the dos and don’ts when rebranding.

In this week's episode, we have Keith Price, CISO and Mentor. We discuss neurodiversity within the cybersecurity workforce. Keith is committed to helping mentor aspiring cybersecurity folk through various programs, and is a passionate advocate of neurodiversity in cybersecurity. This is a widly untapped talent pool, and one we talk about today.

This week’s guest we have CEO and Co-Founder of Dragos Rob Lee. Having helped Dragos grow significantly over the last 18months across the US, Europe and Middle East I had the chance to sit down with Rob to discuss all things Dragos.