Today I sat down with Sandeep Lahane, founder and CEO of Deepfence, a security preventive and detective solution for cloud and container native environments. Sandeep began by explaining both the open source and enterprise components of Deepfence. Threatmapper is a multi-cloud platform for scanning, mapping, and ranking vulnerabilities in running containers, images, hosts, and repositories, and Threatstryker is a commercial product that offers runtime attack analysis, threat assessment, and targeted protection for infrastructures and applications. We then talk about the inexhaustibility and the ever-changing landscape of cybersecurity. Sandeep explains the impetus for launching Deepfence and the process of getting to Threatmapper and Threatstryker, and then talks about his journey from working as a systems programmer to launching a tech startup. We discuss the tense relationship between security and development in the industry, and end the conversation with some words of advice for engineers considering the entrepreneurial plunge.

Highlights:

• What is the difference between Threatmapper and Threatstryker at Deepfence? (00:55)
• Sandeep explains how the Deepfence commission product builds upon the open source one (2:14)
• Discussing the inexhaustibility of the cybersecurity landscape (11:40)
• The genesis of Deepfence (13:58)
• Sandeep discusses the business benefits of having an open source project (14:57)
• Sandeep talks about his journey from systems programmer to tech startup (17:20)
• Emily and Sandeep discuss the tense relationship between security and development (21:19)
• Sandeep gives advice to engineers considering entrepreneurship (33:57)

Links:

Sandeep

• https://deepfence.io