Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Elisity CEO James Winebrenner (Part 1)

For those of you following our coverage of techies transitioning into successful entrepreneurs, here is another terrific case study.

Cyber Security is probably the tech industry’s more prolific segment. James discusses a specific approach to network security that has become increasingly more contemporary and relevant: segment-based policy.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to a bit of your background as well as Elisity.

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558th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Deepak Balakrishna, Adya (Part 1)

Deepak Balakrishna, Co-founder CEO of Adya, which was acquired by Qualys. We review his lessons from the trenches, steering a Bootstrapping to Exit transaction.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with at the 1Mby1M premium program with Adya, which was acquired by Qualys. Qualys, as you might know, is a public cyber security company. Adya was also in the cyber security space. I invited Deepak to talk about exit strategy and what he went through.

From Hardcore Techie to Successful Entrepreneur: Cybellum CEO Slava Bronfman (Part 1)

Slava was a Cyber Security geek in the Israeli military. In this interview, he tells the story of his transition to a successful entrepreneur.

Cybellum has been acquired by LG but continues to operate as an independent business unit subsidiary within the conglomerate. Awesome story with numerous lessons for geeks who aspire to be entrepreneurs.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised and in what kind of background?

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Saviynt CEO Amit Saha (Part 1)

Amit provides an excellent overview of the Identity space and some new developments in the Managed Service Provider market that are consequential for long-term trends.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s introduce our audience to yourself as well as to Saviynt.

3 Reasons to Say Goodbye to Your VPN

Guest Author Adi Ruppin

Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, have been with us ever since the ‘90s. For years VPNs have been enabling remote and mobile users to connect to their enterprise networks from the outside and to do so securely. VPNs have also been used to connect multiple branch office networks together (“site-to-site” VPN), essentially meshing multiple networks into a single network.

What has changed? Why can’t we keep on using VPNs?

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mark Lee, CEO of Splashtop (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page.

Remote work has boosted some great trends. Read on for more on the cyber security front.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Splashtop.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Avanan CEO Gil Friedrich (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

Gil takes us through the earlier approaches to issues like Phishing and his innovation.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Avanan. 

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Cylynt CEO Ted Miracco (Part 1)

Ted discusses anti-piracy.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Cylynt.

Ted Miracco: I’m the co-founder and CEO of Cylynt. We are a cyber security company. We have locations in Dublin, Ireland and Los Angeles, California. We focus on anti-piracy technology, cyber security, and protecting intellectual property from theft, particularly, software intellectual property.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Appsian CEO Piyush Pandey (Part 1)

Piyush talks about security for critical enterprise data.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s first introduce our audience to yourself as well as Appsian.

Piyush Pandey: I’m the CEO of Appsian, which is a security software company based in the Bay Area and Texas. We have an office in Bangalore as well. I have well over 20 years of experience. I started as an engineer. I have worked in development and design in a large company.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Node International CEO Neil Gurnhill (Part 1)

We haven’t really covered Cyber Insurance thus far. Well, here we go…

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and to the company.

Neil Gurnhill: I’m the Founder and CEO of Node International. It’s a company that has now been in existence for a little over two years. We’ve grown the business to over $5 million in revenue.