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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
Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Fred Wilmot, CTO of PacketSled (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Who are the top managed services providers who are using your technology? Are there some large ones? What is their target audience? I’m trying to understand where in the landscape you are playing. Fred Wilmot: I think anytime you talk about MSSP’s, you don’t crack the Fortune 500 per se. The mid-market and
Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Datablink CEO Alexandre Cagnoni (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Are your customers large enterprises or mid market? Where is the sweet spot of your audience? Alexandre Cagnoni: I would say that it would be medium and large enterprises. In the financial sector, we have both medium and large banks that have millions of devices. We have customers with 10 to 20 users
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Felix Odigie, CEO of Inspired eLearning (Part 3)
Felix Odigie: When you think about where we actually win, it is in the analytics. You’re training to be more security-aware. How do you measure that? You must be able to show this analysis to the customer and the customer will show it to their executives. That’s what we do. We have a very advanced analytics
Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mike Baukes and Alan Sharp-Paul, Co-CEOs of UpGuard (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch to the next piece of questioning. What do you see as emerging trends and open problems that you would recommend a new entrepreneur with expertise in your domain should be looking into? Mike Baukes: One of the things that is becoming increasingly apparent is a lack of understanding of not only
Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mark Jaffe, CEO of Prelert (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I think the data-driven approach is growing for sure. The follow-up question to that is, do you have direct competitors that are following exactly your approach? Mark Jaffe: There are a lot of competitors who are applying machine learning to solve the data problem. I couldn’t even name them. Since this interview started,
Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Craig Hinkley, CEO of WhiteHat Security (Part 5)
Craig Hinkley: You had asked about use cases. I would like to talk about two examples of software development lifecycle. What’s interesting is the dev ops trend—the bringing together of the operations and development teams. What we’re pushing for and striving to achieve is secure dev ops or sec dev ops. We want to embed secure software development into the
Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Craig Hinkley, CEO of WhiteHat Security (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I’m absolutely on the same page with you. For the small to medium business segment, it has to be as a cloud service offering. It’s hard for a player to go both enterprise and SME because the go-to-markets are so different. The DNA is so different. Everything is so different. It’s hard to
