Gula Tech Adventures

Ron Gula interviews Matt Devost about the state of cybersecurity, red teaming, threat intelligence and advising  Michael Mann during the making of the Blackhat motion picture staring Chris Hemsworth. 

Matt is the CEO & Co-Founder of OODA LLC. Matt is a technologist, entrepreneur, and international security expert specializing in counterterrorism, critical infrastructure protection, intelligence, risk management and cyber-security issues. Matt co-founded the cyber security consultancy FusionX from 2010-2017. Matt was President & CEO of the Terrorism Research Center/Total Intel from 1996-2009.

Ron Gula interviews Nick Shevelyov of Silicon Valley Bank and author of Cyber War and Peace, about investing in cyber, his experience validating technologies, and helping advise early stage companies to develop products that are more likely to succeed in establishing themselves and getting critical investment.  The pair then dive into a deeper discussion of Nick’s recent book and how it helps—through historical storytelling—to provide non-technical business leaders a useful perspective for thinking about cyber risk in their organizations. 

Ron Gula interviews Brian Hubbard and Joy Beland, experts from Edwards Performance Solutions, on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification.  This framework--of critical cybersecurity training, certification, and third-party assessment within the US Defense Industrial Base--helps protect Federal Contract Information and other unclassified information.  Understanding this can be critical to those seeking to get contracts with the Department of Defense and other US federal departments and agencies.

GTA President and preeminent technologist Ron Gula discusses cybersecurity and developing engineering products so that they are secure by design.

GTA President Ron Gula explains the best principles of developing a pitch deck when seeking investments.

Ron and Cyndi Gula interview Jon Hoeber, a Hollywood screenwriter and producer that has been part of the team behind some of the Transformers movies, the Red series, and the Meg, about the movie industry, cybersecurity and hacking in tv and movies, and how to make pitches—in Hollywood and in business more generally.  

Ron Gula interviews LTG (Ret.) John Mulholland, a retired Green Beret who led US special operations and served as the senior military official at CIA, about the US military response after 9/11, the recent departure of the US and Western allied military forces from Afghanistan, the modernization of warfare, and science fiction.

Ron and Cyndi Gula interview Richard Thieme, respected technology commentator, about DefCon, hacking culture’s evolution over the decades, religion, and literature.

Ron Gula interviews Dr. Daanish Maqbool, the CEO of Wave Engine Corp., about innovation in jet propulsion, drones, developing products in the government space and transitioning to commercial markets, and how technologies are portrayed in Batman, Avengers, and other high-revenue movies.

Ron Gula interviews Dave Baggett, the current CEO of Inky who previously worked on hit video games, about cybersecurity, early coding on vintage PCs, and the development of the video game industry.