Sramana Mitra: I understand what you’re doing. I’m going to ask you to do something for me. You have been in security for a long time. You said you’ve done four companies. Security is a domain where you can only do a startup if you really are a domain expert. When you look around at
Pravin Kothari: We can actually do encryption of the data in such a way that every country’s compliance requirements can be met. The encryption keys are always in the country. It will never traverse the cloud provider side. The issue with cloud provider security is that even if they do encryption, encryption keys are always
Sramana Mitra: What are the trends in that? I would think that the public cloud vendors – people who provide SaaS as their core business – isn’t it their responsibility to make sure that they’re providing their data and applications in a secure way? Pravin Kothari: That’s a great question. Every cloud provider like Microsoft,
Sramana Mitra: Let me actually double-click down. Our audience is very sophisticated. We’ve covered Palo Alto Networks for a long time and very intensely. We’ve covered FireEye for a long time. Let’s try to put it all in some sort of an ecosystem map. In your worldview, where does FireEye sit? Where does Palo Alto
Massive cloud adoption has added tremendous velocity to the speed at which business is done these days. However, it has also opened up security gaps. Listen to serial entrepreneur Pravin Kothari’s perspective on the subject. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company. Pravin Kothari: I’m the
It’s that time of year again: Inc. Magazine has published its 500|5000 list. Arguably, a company that Inc. ranks third in its industry (software), first in its region (San Jose) and 39th overall has some bragging rights. It doesn’t hurt to have a three-year growth rate of 4,909% and revenues in excess of $6 million, either. But