Are You Worried About the Utilities of Startups?

• Episode sponsors: Binarly and FwHunt - Protecting devices from emerging firmware and hardware threats using modern artificial intelligence.

Dan Lorenc and a team or ex-Googlers raised $55 million in early-stage funding to build technology to secure software supply chains. On this episode of the show, Dan joins Ryan to talk about the different faces of the supply chain problem, the security gaps that will never go away, the decision to raise an unusually large early-stage funding round, and how the U.S. government's efforts will speed up technology innovation.

Links:

• Dan Lorenc on LinkedIn
• Chainguard Enforce
• Sounil Yu on SBOMs, software supply chain security
• Extending SBOMs to the firmware layer
• Cybersecurity Leaders Scramble to Decipher SBOM Mandate