Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on how you do what you do. Let’s say I’m an enterprise. How am I interfacing with your technology? Greg Enriquez: If you are an enterprise and you’ve got a security team of two people or 200 people, you’re looking at a layered defense to protect your environment. You have
Sramana Mitra: What area did you decide to go into and how did you determine what problem you were going to solve next? Talk to me about the thought process. Kurt Long: When I started Open Network, I was scrambling. You don’t have anything. You’re trying to find a customer problem and you’re interacting with customers. By
Sramana Mitra: What do you want to do with the business going forward? What’s the thinking amongst the shareholders? Alexandre Wentzo: Our business has always been focused around process. We want to be more specific and trained to address more specific needs. We’re trying to focus now on business of IT. Business of IT is
CISOs are flooded with Cyber Security Vendors trying to sell them solutions. What are they looking for? This and other topics are kicked around in this insightful interview. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as TrapX. Greg Enriquez: I’m the CEO of TrapX Security. TrapX is a security technology
Sramana Mitra: How long did Open Network go on? Kurt Long: Almost 10 years. Sramana Mitra: What happened then? Kurt Long: It was acquired by BMC. Sramana Mitra: What year was that acquisition? Kurt Long: I think it was 2004 or 2005. Sramana Mitra: You did not raise outside capital?
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 273rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, August 27, 2015, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any
Sramana Mitra: How do you charge? What’s the business model? Alexandre Wentzo: It’s per user. Roughly, we sell at an average of $250,000. Sramana Mitra: So it’s large enterprise selling kind of business? Alexandre Wentzo: That’s correct. Things have changed because 10 years ago, we used to sell a few licenses. It would be 5 to 10
During this week’s roundtable, we had veteran journalist Tom Foremski, Publisher of SiliconValleyWatcher.com, as our guest. Tom and I had a dynamic discussion on the future of journalism. If the subject interests you, do listen to this roundtable. Tom also provided his views on a new business opportunity that he foresees: Media-as-a-Service (MaaS). ZenNut We