Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: RiskRecon CEO Kelly White (Part 1)

This discussion focuses on risk within the cyber security domain.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as RiskRecon.

Kelly White: I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of RiskRecon. RiskRecon is a provider of cyber security risk readings that allows companies to solve a wide range of security challenges. Prior to founding RiskRecon in 2015, I was the CISO of a large top 25 financial institution.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Siemplify CEO Amos Stern (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What else do you want to discuss that I have not asked you?

Amos Stern: We can talk a little bit about the type of customers that would use a system like that. It’s interesting because we have two types of customers. If you look at the different types of companies that exist in a market, you can split it somewhere in the bottom-third. The top part are big enough to have their own security operations team, or big enough to have a security infrastructure and a security organization.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Siemplify CEO Amos Stern (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What stage are you at? How many customers? What kind of adoption are you seeing and what are you hearing from the customers?

Amos Stern: We have north of 70 enterprise customers. We have raised $58 million in four rounds. Today, we have a very mature solution and market. Customers are saying that it’s a very big improvement in efficiency.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Siemplify CEO Amos Stern (Part 1)

Enterprises have made tremendous investment in cyber security. Amos discusses how to extract value out of existing investments.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Siemplify.

Amos Stern: I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of Siemplify. We’ve been around since the beginning of 2015. I’m originally from Israel. I spent about 10 years in the Israeli intelligence.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: LogRhythm CTO and Chief Product Officer Chris Petersen (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Give me a couple of examples of use cases where major problems can be solved by automation.

Chris Petersen: I’ll give you a more detailed example around phishing. Phishing is something that all organizations contend with. Social engineering, which is another form of phishing, is still one of the most common ways in which a bad actor is able to compromise a target.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: LogRhythm CTO and Chief Product Officer Chris Petersen (Part 1)

This interview delves into the Security Technology Operations space.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to LogRhythm.

Chris Petersen: I’m the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of LogRhythm. LogRhythm is a cyber security company. Our mission is to help enterprises and organizations protect themselves from cyber threats.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Ondrej Vlcek, CEO of Avast (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to ask you one last question. As you’re sitting in your vantage point, what are some open problems that you could point new entrepreneurs to go try to solve?

Ondrej Vlcek: We only scratched the surface of AI. AI is obvious. Many of the jobs that we have today will become obsolete because of AI. They are already becoming obsolete.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Ondrej Vlcek, CEO of Avast (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What else do you want to highlight in this conversation?

Ondrej Vlcek: I saw the article that you wrote about three years ago when you were interviewing our previous CEO. That was a pretty thorough interview on various parts of our history. This was written four years ago. Maybe it will be good to give you some updates.

Sramana Mitra: Absolutely.