Secure Ventures with Kyle McNulty

Luigi is CEO and co-founder of Bfore.ai, which detects malicious infrastructure before it is used in an attack. The company has two products today under its broader pre-crime technology umbrella, and we talk about those in more detail during the episode. Prior to Bfore.ai, Luigi was a diehard Dell employee. He started in tech support and worked his way to become a VP for solution sales for the EMEA market. He then led EMEA sales for Quest software, which was a spinout from Dell. He left in 2017 after over two decades under the Dell family and thought he was retiring. However, a year later, he started Bfore.ai after a series of events he describes as serendipitous. In the episode, we discuss the unique founding story, what pre-crime technology entails, and the data supporting its relevance under a broader threat intelligence program. Website: Bfore.ai Sponsor: vulncheck.com

Liran is one of the founding partners at Team8, one of the most preeminent investors in Israel with over one billion dollars under management. Team8 started in 2014 with a focus on cybersecurity and enterprise technology, and it has since evolved to include investments in fintech and healthcare as well. Before starting Team8, Liran was in Unit 8200 and then worked in product-focused roles at two high-growth tech companies. In the episode we discuss his story of starting such a successful fund at a young age, the opportunity they saw in a foundry model in Israel, and the areas of cybersecurity that can support standalone public companies as opposed to just acquisition targets. Team8 website: team8.vc Sponsor: vulncheck.com

Gil is co-founder and CEO of Orca Security, one of the leading cloud security platforms on the market today. The company was last valued at 1.8 billion dollars in late 2021. Orca has 8 co-founders, and Gil started as Chief Product Officer before taking the CEO reins last year. We talk more about this dynamic in the episode. Before Orca, Gil worked at Check Point for a decade where he gained experience across a variety of different cutting-edge domains including mobile security, advanced threat protection, and cloud gateway. In the episode, we discuss the commoditization of the CSPM space, the relevance of AI in cloud security remediation, and the strategy for Orca moving forward including regional expansion. Orca Website: orca.security Sponsor: vulncheck.com

Chris is co-founder and CTO of Veracode, an application security powerhouse which was last valued at 2.5 billion in march 2022. The company was founded in 2005 as a code review automation platform, and it has since evolved to be one of the gold standard application security tools. Before founding Veracode, Chris worked as a security researcher and engineer for a decade where he grew frustrated with the manual source code review process. In the episode, we discuss how long it took Chris to believe he had really created something special, the important technical decisions the team made both early on and later in the company's life, and how the DevSecOps movement and new entrants impacted Veracode's market positioning. Veracode: https://www.veracode.com/ Sponsor: https://vulncheck.com/

Shashank is CEO and co-founder of Uno.ai, which is building an AI platform for managing GRC activities such as knowledge base usage and audits. I interviewed Shashank on the podcast back in November 2022, and at the time Uno was focused on using AI to automate activities in the SOC. The AI world has changed a lot since November 2022. The company has since pivoted, and in this episode we focus on what triggered the change in vision, what was wrong with the previous solution, and what is attractive about this new GRC use case. Website: https://uno.ai/ Sponsor: https://vulncheck.com/ Previous Episode with Shashank (November 2022): Apple Podcasts

Mike is the CEO and founder of Evo Security, which is building an Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution specifically designed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). He started the company back in 2018 after leaving behind a private equity fund focused on oil and gas. In the episode, we discuss his transition into cyber from the energy world and what makes Evo uniquely positioned to serve the needs of MSPs given the variety of IAM solutions available on the market today. Evo Security Website: https://www.evosecurity.com/ Sponsor: https://vulncheck.com/

Diana Kelley is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for ProtectAI. She also serves on the boards of Women in Cybersecurity, The Executive Women’s Forum, InfoSec World, CyberFuture Foundation, TechTarget Security Editorial, and DevNet AI/ML. Diana was Cybersecurity Field CTO for Microsoft, Global Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security, GM at Symantec, VP at Burton Group (now Gartner), a Manager at KPMG, CTO and co-founder of SecurityCurve, and Chief vCISO at SaltCybersecurity.In the episode, we talk about her involvement with all of these different groups and how that has changed over time, plus how and why she arrived at ProtectAI. She also talks about the ProtectAI product strategy and how their different products play into their broader vision for AI security. Website: protect.ai Sponsor: VulnCheck - vulncheck.com

Ben is a serial entrepreneur, and his latest company is right in the middle of an exciting battle between the progress of AI and the defense capabilities to ensure its unethical uses are limited. Ben is CEO and co-founder of RealityDefender, which provides deepfake detection capabilities to determine if visual and audio media is AI generated. This is incredibly relevant right now, as there are news headlines every week with exploits featuring deepfake content. Before RealityDefender, Ben founded Covertix, a data protection company he sold after just a year. Before that, he had experience in banking and with another startup which leveraged blockchain for voting. In the episode we dive into the current world of deepfakes and deepfake detection, along with how RealityDefender is positioned in this space.

Greg is CEO and co-founder of Ghost Security, which is an API and application security platform providing contextualized risk awareness of a company's cloud application profile. Ghost is Greg's third company. He previously founded JASK, a SOC automation tool, which he sold to Sumo Logic in 2019. Before JASK, he founded Anomali, which was an early threat intelligence platform. The company is still alive and strong today, and he still sits as an advisor. In the episode we discuss some of the key inflection points with each of his companies, the challenges inherent with being a category creator, and the value resulting from his role as an angel investor in the ecosystem. https://ghost.security/

Chris Petersen discusses his journey from finance to cybersecurity, challenges of starting a business with loved ones, building a unique solution in cybersecurity with RADICL, integrating AI into SOC operations, and enhancing national security through innovative technology.