Sramana Mitra: Lift yourself to the 30,000 foot industry perspective level. If you were to start a company in cyber security today, what open problem would you focus on? Manoj Leelanivas: I would start with data. The issue right now is basically that there is too much data. People are struggling to find information from
Sramana Mitra: There is a window before your system is able to figure things out when something may have gotten into the enterprise, but then you would know that something has gotten into the enterprise and do something about it. Is that correct? Manoj Leelanivas: Yes. The beauty of it is that it doesn’t matter
Sramana Mitra: The example you gave about the propagated malware, does that mean that your system scans every ad that comes into the screen of any employee of your client enterprise? Manoj Leelanivas: Yes, anything that is coming to an employee on any of the vectors. In this case, it’s going to a web page.
Sramana Mitra: Let’s do another couple of examples like this. You said your main differentiation and where you’re innovating the most is in unearthing threats that are unknown to the enterprise. I’m trying to understand what kinds of threats are unknown to the enterprise that your work has helped you figure out. Manoj Leelanivas: Definitely,
Sramana Mitra: Let me see if I got what you said. The real differentiator is, you focus on threats that are unknown to the enterprise and you’re saying that you’re the only or one of the few companies that are capable of unearthing threats that are not already known by the enterprise. Manoj Leelanivas: Correct.
In the crowded world of Cyber Security, where is the true innovation? Manoj throws light on an esoteric area of undiscovered threats and how they are handled by Cyphort. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Cyphort. Manoj Leelanivas: I’m the President and CEO of Cyphort. I started