Sramana Mitra: I don’t agree with this. We have done Cyber Security Thought Leadership stories where companies have come here and talked about risk assessment of the enterprise. I have to say I don’t agree with your comment that there is no one else playing in that space. That tells me that you haven’t done your
Sramana Mitra: Can you take us through a use case of how you implement a cyber governance solution for your customers? Anand Adya: Right from the get-go, we had to understand the landscape of the security market and where we fit in with the uniqueness and differentiation that we have built around our intellectual property.
Cyber Security is fraught with all sorts of risks. We discuss application security here as it pertains to malware intrusion. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to you as well as to your company. Anand Adya: It has been exciting times in the company. It’s especially a challenging time for the industry in
Mike Baukes: Another perspective is, “Are they using ethical solutions? What’s the impact that these people are having on the environment?” Those are different types of trends that we’re getting to become conscious of. They could be hot topics in the future. A really good context in security is how people get used to the aesthetics of applications
Sramana Mitra: If I understood you correctly, you are not like the FICO score in that you’re providing the software to score but in an internal mode. The scoring is not a published scoring. It’s a score that the enterprise is using to audit and improve their own security levels. Mike Baukes: We do both.
Mike Baukes: When most companies think about their transformation effort from an analog process to a digital process, they really want faster speed for delivery of those development activities. The reality is that a lot of organizations have this massive skill shortage that they really need to transform their workforce to be able to take
Just like your credit score, your security score is an important metric to track. Read on to see what’s happening in that realm. Sramana Mitra: If one of you could give us some background about UpGuard as well as the two of you, that would be great to begin with. Mike Baukes: We’re a company
Amir Husain: Within our own area of cyber security, one of the things that’s happening at the large-scale level is that cyber security is being weaponized. This is very sad but it’s true. Cyber security is now becoming a weapon of warfare. You’ve seen where digital weaponry was used to rollback the Iranian nuclear program