CyberBytes: The Podcast

This week’s guest we have Kiran Kamity, CEO and Founder of Deepfactor. Having moved to Silicon Valley for his undergrad it seems the last 20 years have gone by with a blink. 3x serial founder, currently building the next generation of Application Security tooling he reveals all about his journey and Deepfactor.We discuss:✔ Working at both big corporates and small startups with 2x successful exits✔ Building great systems/products that touch on all cloud-native (virtualization, containerization and Kubernetes)✔ The next generation of Application Security tooling and what Deepfactor is doing differently ✔ The Deepfactor SANS DevSecOps Analyst Report and much much more.

In this week's episode, we're joined by Byrson Bort. He gives the unique perspective of a 3x founder of GRIMM an offensive security services company, Scythe a next-gen adversary emulation tool Scythe, and the ICS Security Village the non-profit (and a cooking show!).Tune in to listen to his story and:✔ How a military nickname turned into a brand story across 2 companies✔ His journey from Seed to Series A in what Bryson describes as Scrappy - Honeymoon - Wilderness - Execution stages✔ What it was like hiring and handing over the helm of GRIMM to the CEO✔ What it’s like building a business for a market that does not exist yet

This week’s guest we have Kunal Agarwal, CEO of Dope Security. After almost going to jail, Kunal took a turn and managed to graduate from the University of Berkeley. Symantec alumni and first-time Google ventures portfolio founder, Kunal reveal all about Dope in this episode. Key Takeaways- Why passion is so important to Kunal and how it’s embedded into Dope.Security Culture and hiring process- The different stages to raising and the importance of collaboration- How Kunal ensures Dope.Security provides a first-class experience and much more

This week’s guest we have Michael Mumcuoglu, CEO & Co-Founder of CardinalOps. Michael is an Israeli Unit 8200 veteran and serial entrepreneur. Having successfully exited LightCyber to Palo Alto Networks in 2017, he and co-founder Yair Manor decided to go for it again and launched CardinalOps. Here is the story so far...We talk about:✔ Going through a successful exit and transition, leveraging PAN to enhance the product and take it to the next level. Now called CortexXDR which recently hit a $1bn revenue milestone✔The importance of having a thoughtful company name and brand✔ How to build a second company, with all the lessons learned from his first successful exit and much more

This week's guest we have CEO and Co-Founder of runZero Chris Kirsch. Chris tells us his secrets to building a great culture within his business and shares some of the dos and don’ts when rebranding.

In this week's episode, we have Keith Price, CISO and Mentor. We discuss neurodiversity within the cybersecurity workforce. Keith is committed to helping mentor aspiring cybersecurity folk through various programs, and is a passionate advocate of neurodiversity in cybersecurity. This is a widly untapped talent pool, and one we talk about today.

This week’s guest we have CEO and Co-Founder of Dragos Rob Lee. Having helped Dragos grow significantly over the last 18months across the US, Europe and Middle East I had the chance to sit down with Rob to discuss all things Dragos.

This week’s guest we have Nipun Gupta. We talk about his rise from being a kid in Delhi to the COO at Bearer in London. Nipun discusses how his CMU university degree really elevated his development in technology. A man with a career spanning consulting, financial services, venture and now startup, Nipun has seen it all. We laser in on his time at Deutsche Bank working within the Cyber Innovation team and how he would identify the futures Cyber threats and much more.

Today’s guest we have CISO James Azar, James is no stranger to a pod as he hosts the CyberHub Podcast which goes live every 9am EST Monday through Thurs. We talk about the importance of self-learning and development, his recent experience interviewing and how ghosting can really affect the bottom line. We cover the 3 types of CISO and something James feels strongly about the importance of having strong leadership skills. James is an entrepreneur turned CISO and having recently started a new role with AP4 Group I wish him the best of luck in tackling the increasing security issues across the utility sector.

Today’s guest we have CISO at BigID Tyler Young. Tyler progressed through the ranks extremely quickly from being an incident responder to CISO and some claim he’s actually the world’s youngest CISO (we will go with it!). Tyler talks about the importance of having a supportive mentor, imposture syndrome, and the foundations for running an effective security program (People, Processes and Technology) and we finish up talking about hiring and what resources Tyler currently enjoys.