CyberBytes: The Podcast

Today's guest we have Rahul Powar, Founder and CEO of Red Sift, a venture-backed cognitive Cybersecurity platform. Previously, Rahul served as VP/Head of Advanced Products at Thomson Reuters Corporation which he joined when his start-up Apsmart was acquired in 2012. A technologist and entrepreneur who loves building software and using technology to solve problems he lifts the lid on some of the newest tech and generative AI.We Discuss:✔ Red Sift and the advantaged technologies they are using and how they help enterprises✔ His early access to Open.AI GPT3 in 2020 and the benefits and cons of opensource Generative AI✔ Business Email Compromise, the future of AI and much much more

Aspiron were excited to welcome Robin Berthier, CEO & Co-founder of Network Perception, on to Cyberbytes: The Podcast. Oliver uncovered Robin’sunique and an impressive journey from PhD researcher to CEO of a VC-backed cybersecurity company. Having never been exposed to a commercial environment, Robin had to learn how to build an effective go-to-market and leadership team all whilst developing a world-class OT security product. Tune in to learn about his journey!

Today’s guest we have Shashank Tiwari, CEO & Co-Founder at Uno.ai. Shashank is a serial entrepreneur and in this episode reveals all about building a successful start-up.Uno is the thinking machine you need to understand and protect systems across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Multiply forces, get every newbie to work at the level of an expert, and reduce time to respond with Uno ASAP (Autonomous Security Analyst Co-Pilot)! Using some fresh ideas from the world of autonomous and AI-driven systems, Uno covers the full scope of comprehensive visibility, deep cognition, effective detection, thorough root cause analysis, causality discovery, and high precision control. Uno is headquartered in Palo Alto. It is backed by some of the smartest security operators and investors in silicon valley.Shashank and I discuss:✔ Shashank's take on the DNA required to build a company (skills and behaviours)✔ The importance of research gathering before starting to build a product✔ Common mistakes founders make and his advice to first-time start-up founders

In this week's episode, Brodie sits down with Alex Mitchell, CRO at Fleet DM where they discuss:✔ His role as a CRO & the journey of how he got there.✔ The transition from being in a technical role to sales.✔ Leadership Vs. Individual Contributor

Today’s guest we have Robert Johnston, CEO at Adlumin. A fascinating career from the battlefield to the boardroom. Rob founded Adlumin to build the comprehensive, integrated and collaborative security operations platform he wished he had when investigating incidents for the Marines, NSA and CrowdStrike. Adlumin provides a modern security operations platform and managed detection and response services that bring the type of enterprise-grade security to mid-market organizations that have – for too long – only been accessible to the world’s largest organizations.We Discuss:✔ Rob’s entrepreneurial nature and the foundations for building Adlumin✔ Why he always planned to be a mid-market play over an enterprise player✔ The challenges associated with being a purely mid-market play✔ Channel Partners, Security consolidation and much more

Today’s guest we have Adam Bateman, CEO & Co-Founder at Push Security. Having started his career in a purely offensive security role he later switched and established MWR’s defence practice defending their customers against sophisticated adversaries and state-sponsored attacks. Now having founded Push with Tyrone Erasmus & Jacques Louw spills the beans on all things SaaS App Security.We Discuss:✔ His and his Co-Founders transition from a purely red-team offensive security position to defensive security ✔ Why building an amazing business with a great Culture, Brand, Meaning & Purpose is so important✔ How big the SaaS App Security problem is and why it’s so important for ALL enterprises to secure✔ Some of the research Push is currently undertaking and much much more.

Today’s guest we have Security Evangelist Augusto Barros. Augusto is my first Canadian guest who has a wealth of security industry experience and right now his sole role is working to deliver the best threat cloud native detection and response solution with Securonix. We Discuss:His role as a Cybersecurity Security EvangelistThe Securonix product and how the solution has evolved organically over the years and the future of SIEM solutions Vendor consolidation, Threat Detection Engineering, generative AI and much more

Today’s guest we have Thomas Pace, CEO & Co-Founder at Netrise. Tom’s passion for Cybersecurity oozes out in this episode. Having identified a better way to do some of the manual tasks he was doing whilst employed at Cylance he decided to found Netrise and hasn’t looked back since.We Discuss:✔ His journey to founding Netrise and the importance of having a great Co-Founder Michael Scott ✔ His recent aggressive hiring whilst everyone else is doing layoffs✔ Firmware Security and the big problems associated with it.✔ The Executive Order, Software Attestation Requirements and much more

This week’s guest we have Liran Tancman, CEO of Rezilion. Liran has a super unique background, having joined the military intelligence unit in a non-cyber role and studying Brain Science at University he is now on his 2nd Cybersecurity startup having had a first successful exit to Paypal in just 15 months with Cyactive.We discuss:✔ How his wife instigated the idea for his first venture Cyactive and it be acquired by Paypal for $60m!✔ Lirans’ motivations for starting Rezilion and why he decided on entrepreneurship over becoming a VC ✔ Why starting his second startup with Shlomi his previous co-founder made so much sense ✔ What Rezilion is doing differently and how they save the security team TIME as well as their new runtime agentless.✔ The future for Software Supply Chain Security and Rezilion and much much more

This week’s guest we have Armaan Mahbod, Director of Security and Business Intelligence at DTEX Systems. A seasoned insider threat investigator and researcher, currently directing the investigation, research, and content development teams for DTEX Systems where he has spent almost the last 7 years. In this episode, Armaan reveals all about the Insider Threat.We Discuss:What exactly the insider threat is and why is it so importantThe difference between insider risk and insider threatThe motivations and reasons for the insider threatWhat enterprise executives can do to mitigate the insider threat and much more