CyberBytes: The Podcast

Today’s guest we have Chris Denbigh-White, Chief Security Officer at Next DLP a leading provider of insider risk and data protection solutions.This episode was a ton of fun, Chris talks about his experience transitioning from law enforcement to the private sector and shares his advice to others looking to make the transition.  We discuss at depth ransomware, its driving factors, how’s it’s evolved and ultimately the organizational shift from reactive ransomware detection to proactive prevention, topping off with his top prevention steps organisations should be taking to avoid attacks.

Today’s guest we have Javed Hasan, Co-Founder and CEO at Lineaje a Cybersecurity startup that provides software supply chain security solutions, Javed has over 20 years of experience in product management and has built and scaled successful, high-growth product lines for enterprise and consumer markets having managed more than 50 products through the entire product lifecycle. Happy New Year!

Today’s guest is John Williamson, VP of North American Sales at SOCRadar. In this episode, John shares his learnings from interviewing thousands of sales folks, we discuss how the B2B buyer persona is changing, and John gives insight into how SOCRadar’s new team-focused approach is winning!Tune in to learn about:What attributes make a top-performing sales repHow the B2B buy persona is changingInsight into how SOCRadar is breaking the traditional sales comp plan status quo                            If you would like to be our next guest or are looking to hire Technical or Go-To-Market Cybersecurity Talent please get in touch via info@aspironsearch.com

Today’s guest we have the infamous Dave DeWalt. Founder & CEO at NightDragon. Dave is a 4x CEO and security industry titan. Having grown up in Pennsylvania, he studied Computer Science at the University of Delaware, to my surprise also spending his spare time training as a Wrestler! Upon graduating and not really knowing what he wanted to do he heard about the Silicon Valley dream and decided to pack his belongings with no job secured and travel across the US in his Pontiac t1000 where his dream become a reality.As CEO, Dave went on to having 2 of his companies acquired for an incredible $1.9b (Documentum) and $7.7b (McAfee)A truly inspiring story from a humbling legend, this one is not to be missed,We discuss:Dave’s mission for NightDragon (Securing our world for tomorrow) and his investment thesisHis advice to startup founders, the 4 H’s and 3 T’sHow important surrounding yourself with great people isNightDragon’s future and Dave's prediction for the Cybersecurity space in 2024.

Today’s guest we have Anna Belak – Director, Office of Cybersecurity Strategy at Sysid.Anna has nearly ten years of experience researching and advising organizations on cloud adoption with a focus on security best practices. As a Gartner Analyst, Anna spent six years helping more than 500 enterprises with vulnerability management, security monitoring, and DevSecOps initiatives. Anna is now the Director of the Office of Cybersecurity at Sysdig, using her deep understanding of the security industry to help IT professionals succeed in their cloud-native journey.

Today’s guest is Andy Fogila, Director of Engineering at JupiterOne. In this episode, Andy shares his journey into engineering, provides insight from his transition from IC to Management, and delves into the topic of Corporate vs Startup environment.Tune in to learn about:Andy’s first lesson and failureAndy’s crash course into engineering leadershipWhat the first 3 months looks like as a leader in a startupInsights into what life is like at a startup vs corporate

Today Oliver Legg welcomed Harshil Parikh, CEO and Founder of code to cloud security vendor, Tromzo. Over the past 3 years the business has gone from strength to strength and is being regularly adopted by new enterprise security teams to solve real world application security problems. Harshil and Oliver also talk about the incredible work he does as a Co-founder of the Silicon Valley CISO Investment group, helping early stage security vendors thrive and grow.

Today’s guest we have Ron Nissim, CEO & Co-Founder at Entitle.  Ron was a great guest sharing the harsh realities of founding a Cybersecurity startup and the challenges that come with it.  In this episode we discuss: What it really takes to find an initial solution to a problemThe challenges of Privileged Access Management, how it’s evolved and how Entitle is changing the gameThe importance of the early stage customers and how they have shaped Entitle and much more

Today’s guest we have Ben Kliger, CEO & Co-Founder of Zenity, the first security governance platform for low-code/no-code applications. Ben has over 17 years security industry experience and having just secured a $16.5m Series A round led by Intel Capital is on a mission to enable the low-code/no-code revolution by providing security governance that is simple, scalable, and seamless.We Discuss:What is low-code /no-code and what Zenity are doing so differently in this spaceThe Citizen Development motion and why we can’t ignore itHow gen.ai is speeding up the pace and much more

This week’s guest we have Itzik Alvas, CEO & Co-Founder of Entro Security. After serving 5 years in the elite Cybersecurity unit of the IDF, Itzik moved into industry starting as a developer and quickly progressing through the ranks to CISO for a major healthcare organisation and later Head of Security and SRE and Microsoft. Itzik then decided to found Entro Security with Co-Founder Adam Cheriki.In this episode we find out what Itzik and his team have been up to over the last 24months and how they are addressing the secrets management problem which has a TAM of over $16b+!!