Secure Ventures with Kyle McNulty

Jan 28 2025 116 ep. 42 mins 28

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Kyle McNulty interviews cutting-edge founders in the cyber security space to understand their plights, glories, and revolutionary products. New episodes are published every other Tuesday. If you are interested in sharing your story, please contact me at [email protected] Following the podcast really helps! Follow it on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/75106414 Twitter: https://twitter.com/VentureWithKyle

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Attivo Networks | CEO Tushar Kothari on Growing and Selling a $600M Company

Jan 28 2025 46 mins

Tushar was the CEO of Attivo Networks for a decade before selling to SentinelOne for $600 million dollars in 2022. Attivo Networks built deception technology which would trick attackers into attacking fake infrastructure. A common form of deception is a honeypot, which is an intentionally vulnerable server so defenders can gather information about attackers such as their IP address

Realm Security | CEO Pete Martin on Problem Focus and Log Management Cost Reduction

Jan 14 2025 39 mins

Pete is CEO and co-founder of Realm Security, which is building a security data fabric to help companies manage their disparate log sources for monitoring tools. For companies spending millions of dollars every year on contracts with Splunk, Realm is the light at the end of the tunnel that can help them move to a cheaper SIEM tool. Pete started his career at Rapid7 after dropping o

Secure Ventures 2024 Highlights

Dec 31 2024 42 mins

In the spirit of the end of the year, I decided to put together some highlights from a handful of episodes over the course of 2024. This episode will feature a select few snippets from five different episodes over the course of the year including Chris from RADICL and LogRhythm, Gil from Orca, Chris from Veracode, Andy from BreachRx, and Kabir from Leen. There will be a mix of stor

Phylax | CEO Odysseas on Web3 Breaches and Attack Surface

Dec 18 2024 47 mins

Odysseas is co-founder and CEO of Phylax, a web3 security company building a security layer for blockchain-based protocols. Before Phylax, Odysseas worked at Nomad, a crypto exchange which suffered a $190M breach in August 2022. In the episode, we talk about his unique background as a developer relations manager, the approach law enforcement takes to recover funds in the wake of a

Mantis Analytics | CEO Maksym Tereshchenko on Physical and Information Security

Dec 03 2024 42 mins

Maksym is CEO and founder of Mantis Analytics, providing holistic security awareness to organizations through a social media monitoring platform. The tool combs media channels to identify risks to a customer's business and escalates alerts accordingly. I thought this would be an interesting opportunity to look at the broader security world to understand some parallels with pure cyb

watchTowr | CEO Ben Harris on Automated Red Teaming

Nov 05 2024 34 mins

Ben is founder and CEO of watchTowr, building an external attack surface management tool (EASM) that performs automated penetration testing and red teaming activities. Before founding watchTowr in 2021, Ben worked as a security consultant for a decade focused largely on penetration testing. And as Ben describes in the episode, what started as a combination of cobbled together scrip

Refine Intelligence | CEO Uri Rivner on the Evolution of Fraud Prevention Continued

Oct 22 2024 55 mins

Uri is co-founder and CEO of Refine Intelligence, which is focused on anti money laundering and check fraud. Uri previously came on the podcast in 2022 and talked about the evolution of fraud prevention over the last 20 years. I re-released that episode back in August because I loved the story so much. At that time, we talked mostly about his previous company, BioCatch, which sold

Naoris Protocol | CEO David Carvalho on Overcoming Blockchain Skepticism

Oct 08 2024 46 mins

David is CEO and Founder of Naoris Protocol, which provides a blockchain-based mesh architecture for improved endpoint integrity. The company was founded in 2016 and has since raised over $30 million. Before Naoris, David was a cyber leader at a range of global companies including AT&T, Electronic Arts, London City Airport, and others. In the episode, we discuss his background

Akeyless | CEO Oded Hareven on Vaultless Secrets Management

Sep 24 2024 52 mins

Oded is co-founder and CEO of Akeyless, which provides a vaultless secrets management platform for companies to manage their non-human identities. We will talk more about the vault vs. vaultless approach in the episode, but essentially the Akeyless design allows for a SaaS model which dramatically reduces time to value compared to often cumbersome vault implementation. Akeyless las

Opsin | CEO Oz Wasserman on Access Control for LLMs

Sep 10 2024 44 mins

Oz is co-founder and CEO of Opsin, which provides access control capabilities to LLM outputs ensuring users only get appropriate outputs based on their access level. The company was founded earlier this year, but they have already seen strong customer and investor interest given they are aimed at a key roadblock in making gen AI more available within the enterprise. Before Opsin, O