EP 264 - Gene Yu - CEO of BlackPanda - The Democratization of Digital Incident Response

Asia Tech Podcast was excited to have Gene Yu back on the platform.  Gene is the Founder of BlackPanda, Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.  BlackPanda recently announced a $15 mm Series A raise. I wanted to have Gene on to talk about the significance of the raise for BlackPanda, particularly amid a difficult fundraising environment.

Some of the topics that Gene discussed:

• Experiencing the fundraising winter firsthand
• Currently, nobody to call for digital incident response though we already enjoy physical incident response services
• The Great Fire of London (1666)
• Do we need a Cyber 9/11
• The combination of cyber incident response with insurance
• Data collection and modeling patterns of risk

A couple of other titles we considered for this episode but ultimately rejected:

1. What Is the Activation Rate?
2. The Forensics Is the Most Important Data