Secure Ventures with Kyle McNulty

Secure Ventures with Kyle McNulty

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Secure Ventures with Kyle McNulty episodes

  • Kikrr: Mariana Padilla on Expediting Cybersecurity Pre-sales

    Mariana:

    • Co-founder and CEO of Kikrr, providing on-demand opportunities for cybersecurity practitioners to try new products
    • Previously founded a digital marketing agency
    • Started her career working as a teacher

      • Check out the episode for our discussion on transitioning to a cybersecurity founder from teaching, building a two-sided marketplace, and monetizing sales teams as opposed to cybersecurity practitioners.
      https://kikrr.io/

      37 min
    • Horizon3: Snehal Antani on Company Values and Autonomous Penetration Testing

      Snehal:

      • Co-founder and CEO of Horizon3, providing autonomous penetration testing capabilities
      • Ex-CTO of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)
      • Ex-CTO of Splunk
      • Worked under CIO at GE Capital
      • Worked under CTO at IBM

        • Check out the episode for our conversation about veterans in cybersecurity, how Snehal applied lessons from JSOC to Horizon3, how Snehal thinks about being a late-career founder, and more!
        horizon3.ai

        55 min
      • Dope Security: Kunal Agarwal on building a "dope" cybersecurity product

        Kunal:

        • Founder and CEO of dope.security, building a secure web gateway solution that makes security practitioners say "that's dope"
        • Previously worked in product management at Symantec and then Forcepoint
        • Produces animated videos on Youtube which have gained over 60M views

          • Check out the episode for our conversation on co-founder compatibility, secure web gateways vs. secure browsers, what it means to build a "dope" product, and more.
          https://dope.security/

          40 min
        • Greynoise: Andrew Morris on Honeypots for Threat Intelligence

          Andrew:

          • CEO and founder of Greynoise, providing threat intelligence classifying standard internet noise
          • Previously worked on the R&D team at the cyber intelligence company Endgame (later acquired by Elastic in 2019)
          • Dropped out of high school and never finished or attended college


            • Check out the episode for our conversation on the cybersecurity equivalent of waiting tables, the merits of a high school diploma, and the mechanisms behind the Greynoise threat intelligence model.


            https://www.greynoise.io/

            54 min
          • VulnCheck: Anthony Bettini on Converting Vulnerabilities to Exploit Intelligence

            Anthony:

            • CEO and founder of VulnCheck, going beyond just vulnerabilities to share exploit intelligence
            • Previously founded FlawCheck, one of the original container security companies, which he sold to Tenable
            • Previously founded Appthority, an early mobile app security company, which was acquired by Symantec

              • Check out the episode for our conversation on his lessons and themes after founding three companies and why he completely ignores the competitive landscape.
              https://vulncheck.com/

              50 min
            • Ex Sr. Director for White House Cybersecurity Policy - AJ Grotto

              AJ:

              • Director of the Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance program at the Stanford Cyber policy center
              • Previously Senior Director for Cybersecurity Policy at the White House from 2015 to 2017, covering two administrations
              • Was an adviser for Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker on cybersecurity measures
              • Senior staff on the Senate Intelligence Committee overseeing budget and operations for NSA
              • Started his career as a National Security Analyst at the Center for American Progress in 2003


                • In the episode we discuss everything from the effectiveness of our legislators in addressing high tech areas, partisan dynamics of cybersecurity, key focus areas for policy, and the effectiveness of recent policy like the Cyber Trust Mark and the CSRB review of Microsoft.


                Cyber Trust Mark

                Cybersecurity Review Board Review of Microsoft:

                46 min
              • TLV Partners: Brian Sack on the Israeli Cybersecurity Ecosystem

                Brian:

                • Principal at TLV Partners focusing on enterprise software and cybersecurity, joined when the fund first started in 2015
                • Previously worked at Square Peg Capital also in Israel
                • Born in South Africa and worked in Australia for Grant Thornton before moving to Israel for Square Peg

                  • In this episode Brian and I discuss the Israeli cybersecurity startup ecosystem. Given the number of founders I interview from Israel, I thought it would be valuable for the audience and myself to dive deeper. We discuss everything from the importance of Hebrew to the revolving door between government and the commercial sector.


                  https://www.tlv.partners/

                  35 min
                • Ox Security: Neatsun Ziv on Software Supply Chain Threat Contextualization

                  Neatsun:

                  • CEO and founder of Ox Security, providing prioritization insights for software supply chain vulnerability management
                  • Previously VP at Checkpoint for a decade
                  • Founded Vanadium, an EDR company, which he ran for 8 years

                    • Check out the episode for our discussion on his lessons from Vanadium applied to Ox and how threat modeling applies to the software supply chain.


                    Links:

                    https://www.ox.security/

                    https://pbom.dev/

                    39 min
                  • Best-of: Bruce Schneier on AI in Cybersecurity (2021)

                    This is a rerun of an episode recorded in July 2021.

                    In the episode, Bruce and I discuss his views on AI and how it may fundamentally change the security landscape for attackers and defenders. He mentions the key steps we need to take as a society to best guide AI innovation. Two years later, it is interesting to reflect on how we have performed according to his guidelines.

                    37 min
                  • NetRise: Thomas Pace on Firmware Security for IoT

                    Tom:

                    • CEO and Founder of NetRise, identifying vulnerabilities in firmware through building SBOMs
                    • Ex-VP at Blackberry after the Cylance acquisition
                    • Previously worked as a cyber analyst at the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve where he first learned about the gaps in IoT security solutions

                      • Check out the episode for our discussion on software vs. firmware SBOMs, whether tools are valuable if there are no clear remediation steps, and how IoT is addressed differently than other device types.


                      https://www.netrise.io/

                      43 min

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