Digital Fortress

Small and midsize business haven't had the budget to spend on cybersecurity. It's a big problem as AI makes the bad guys more powerful. The good news is AI can help the defenders too. Today's conversation with Bill Haber of Tekrisq focuses on what they are doing to bring a cost-effective and practical approach to improving SMB cyber posture.

Imagine that your company has been hacked and the bad guys are on your network. If you try to use that network to coordinate your response, the bad guys will be a step ahead of you. You need a secure way for the incident response team to communicate away from the hacked network. And if you work in a regulated industry, that secure way needs to be logged and audited by the regulators, so you can't just use encrypted chat like Signal. That's where ArmorText comes in.

In this episode, we explore how AI is affecting a traditional hardware and software reseller business.

This is the first "double episode" in the podcast where I include a demo of a cool product I've found. This conversation is with Eric Thompson of Pre-Security, a company applied predictive and agentic AI to predict security vulnerabilities before they happen. Pre-Security was founded by a couple of very experienced cyber entrepreneurs, Paul Jespersen and John Peterson. Their product is so compelling that we recorded a demo of the product as well that I'm sharing with you on this episode. I hope you enjoy it and go check Pre-Security out!

This was a fascinating conversation with a true cyber practitioner. A former member of Israel's famed Unit 8200 signals intelligence organization, Dor Swisa has seen it all and knows how to protect systems and is applying AI to apply agentic AI to create agents that understand and remediate security posture across systems. Sola.Security has some notable big-name investors and are in market now. Listen to learn more about this groundbreaking development.

AI can now create massive volumes of code for you....can you trust it? The Code Registry is applying AI to review and build easy to understand reports for non-technical stakeholders, whether those are founders, executives, or private equity or venture capital firms doing due diligence. Come hear Stephen Gray talk about how he came up with the idea and how the effort is going so far.

Did you know that deepfake videos are now so good you can be fooled into going through an entire interview cycle online and get a "job offer" as a way for scammers to get your personal data? Ron Kerbs of KIDAS explains how he's fighting AI scammers with AI.

From the FBI to a startup founder, Ellie Pikula's story is a great story of overcoming adversity and seizing opportunity. After losing a key partnership, she was able to save her business with a new partnership with the world's largest security incident data provider. Listen in to hear Ellie's story and learn about a new app to keep you and your family safe.

Come hear from Ahsan Mir, the founder and CEO of Rapticore, about his journey from government employee to startup founder. Mir stresses that working on yourself is just as important as working on the product and that self-awareness is key.

This is a great conversation with Adam Firestone, founder of SIX3RO and author of two books: "Scrappy But Hapless" and "Still Scrappy". He's also editor-in-chief of US Cybersecurity magazine. Adam talks about his journey to become a founder of a company that could help us all deal with the coming Quantumpocalypse, when quantum computers are able to break current encryption. That day is fast approaching and could be here as soon as 2028.