Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: BitSight CEO Tom Turner (Part 1)

Cyber security risk is growing exponentially. How do you measure and benchmark such risk?

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having your introduce yourself as well as BitSight to our audience.

Tom Turner: I’m the CEO of BitSight Technologies. BitSight is a cyber security ratings company. We take a big data analytics approach to measuring the outcomes that have happened to hundreds of thousands of companies around the world so we can understand their security and risk performance.

Our customers use that information to understand third parties that are important to their business. These are vendors and their supply chain. >>>

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Jeff Swearingen, CEO of SecureLink (Part 1)

Jeff provides a window into the remote access world through this interview, a world that is vastly more complex today than it used to be.

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

Jeff Swearingen: I’m the Co-Founder and CEO of SecureLink.

Sramana Mitra: What does SecureLink do? >>>

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Anne Bonaparte, CEO of Appthority (Part 1)

The perimeter of the enterprise is disappearing. What happens to Security?

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

Anne Bonaparte: I’m CEO of Appthority. Appthority is a venture-backed company. It’s a mobile security company and we’re focused on protecting what matters most in the enterprise context, which is enterprise data and employee privacy. As we all know, we can’t live without our phones, both for personal and business use. >>>

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Rao Papolu, CEO of Cavirin (Part 1)

The cyber security market is intensely rich in startup activity and equally rich in threats. This conversation explores some of the challenges of CISO’s face today.

We will bring you some CISO interviews soon to extend this conversation.

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

Rao Papolu: I studied at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras. I started working through UPSC as a scientist for >>>

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Tracy Metzger, COO of Vesta (Part 1)

There is a lot of fraud in online payments. This discussion explores the field, and Tracy also provides a pointer to a great open problem that an entrepreneur can look into.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing you and Vesta to our audience.

Tracy Metzger: I’m the COO of Vesta. I’m a 25-year veteran of the financial technology industry, primarily around payments and technology solutions in payments. Vesta is a 22-year-old financial technology company that focuses on payments and product >>>

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Hakan Nordfjell, Senior VP of eBanking and eCommerce at Gemalto (Part 1)

In this wide-ranging discussion, perhaps the most thought-provoking question is the one about data and who owns it.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as Gemalto to our audience.

Hakan Nordfjell: I’m responsible for the Digital Banking segment within Gemalto. Gemalto is a digital security company based in Amsterdam. >>>

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Michael DeCesare, CEO of ForeScout (Part 1)

We’ve covered Forescout for a while. They’re doing something very interesting in the Cyber Security space, quite an important architecture to track devices plugging into an enterprise network. This is an important company to understand in the sector.

Here are the two past articles: Billion Dollar Unicorns: ForeScout Does Not Want To Go Public Yet and 2017 IPO Prospects: ForeScout Files “Confidentially” that cover their IPO trajectory and maneuvers.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as Forescout to our audience. >>>

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Datablink CEO Alexandre Cagnoni (Part 1)

Alex bootstrapped Datablink from Brazil to $7.5 million addressing cyber fraud. He discusses the trends in his current markets – Brazil and East Asia – as he gets ready to penetrate other markets.

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

Alexandre Cagnoni: I’m was born in Brazil and graduated with a Computer Engineering degree. Datablink is a Cyber Security company that was founded in Brazil in 2007. At that time, we were called BrToken. We targeted the authentication and transaction signing market. Our main focus was the >>>

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2017: RANK Software, Toronto, Canada

According to Gartner, 8.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2017 and will reach 20.4 billion by 2020. This explosion in the number of connected devices is also multiplying the potential for cyber-attacks.

Toronto, Canada-based RANK Software provides a security analytics platform called Virtual Advisor to Security Analysts (VASA) that leverages Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for cyber security solutions. >>>

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Markus Jakobsson, Chief Scientist of Agari (Part 1)

The recent phishing fiasco involving Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta hoodwinked even the IT staff of the campaign. It goes on to show how vulnerable traditional security systems can be to advanced attacks. This interview tackles some of the current developments in email fraud prevention and related topics.

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

Markus Jakobsson: I am the Chief Scientist at Agari. Agari is a company that addresses email-based threats. The threats being things like cyber attacks mounted over the last few years and intensified. John Podesta’s suffering is one example. Business email compromise attacks is another one. A third one is ransomware. That’s the spectrum of attacks that Agari addresses.

Agari protects about 10 billion emails a day. It has two types of customers. There are the customers who want to preserve and protect their brand name to avoid >>>