Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Bill Bruno, CEO of D4t4 (Part 2)

Bill Bruno: Another thing that’s picked up in the last few years because of the speed of digital transformation is fraudsters trying to take advantage of that. We have a customer that’s using both systems – our marketing system and our fraud system. In many ways, you can look at it as a hand-off. On

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Bill Bruno, CEO of D4t4 (Part 1)

With more people on the Internet and more connected devices, the touchpoint for Cyber Fraud is increasing exponentially. We deep dive into problems, solutions, open problems, and entrepreneurial opportunities. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company. Bill Bruno: I’m the CEO of D4t4 Solutions. It’s a

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Elisity CEO James Winebrenner (Part 5)

James Winebrenner: The second thing is not going at it alone. All of these companies that we want to do business with can’t evaluate tens of thousands of vendors. The space changes rapidly. Much more so in security. Some of these segments are so small when they start.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Elisity CEO James Winebrenner (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Healthcare and manufacturing are two big segments where you are doing a lot of work. James Winebrenner: Yes, we are starting to see acknowledgment of this need in traditional enterprise space. I met with a large investment bank in New York last week that has done micro-segmentation initiatives in their data centers, but

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Elisity CEO James Winebrenner (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Your primary insight is that you had the technical background, but you spent time building up sales and business model experience before you took the leap into entrepreneurship. James Winebrenner: Yes.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Elisity CEO James Winebrenner (Part 2)

James Winebrenner: The second principle was the ability to do segmentation across the network instead of sharing one network. There was a significant amount of interest in segmenting traffic by use case. In retail, we saw a lot of need for POS traffic to be segmented from real-time communications type traffic. We saw the advent

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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

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From Hardcore Techie to Successful Entrepreneur: Cybellum CEO Slava Bronfman (Part 5)

Slava Bronfman: It was a better year in terms of sales. Earlier, a lot of our sales were based on physical conferences. It’s hard to compete as a small startup. If you go to a conference and you have a small booth, it’s hard to compete. Now remote working levels the playing field. We felt

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