Why we need a sensible approach to cyber
Why does any conversation about cybersecurity trigger fear, uncertainty and doubt? If we cannot simplify the jargon, the complexity and the management of our cyber risk, who benefits? Who loses?
One spring morning last year, workers at JBS USA, one of the world's largest meat processors found a sign posted at its plant entrance. "Team member: This weekend our company was the target of a cyberattack that has impacted our IT systems. As a result, we will not operate tomorrow..." JBS worldwide operations were forced to shut down, impacting almost 75,000 employees. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company ended up paying $11 million in ransomware….read more on LinkedIn
Data security - How Normalyze leads the new paradigm....
Existing cloud security solutions focus on securing cloud infrastructure or workloads but you still need to protect your most valuable assets…data. Normalyze shows the way…
Empathy for the CISO - Lessons from Twitter's security debacle
When the security leader of Twitter makes a damming move was made against the CEO and Board of a publicly traded $30 billion market cap company, what’s really at stake?
Last week, when a senior security executive at Twitter, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko filed a whistleblower report, it was the first time such a damming move was made against the CEO and Board of a publicly traded $30 billion market cap company. At the core, this blowup highlights a fundamental challenge of security - being a CISO is a thankless job. Almost 24% of Fortune 500 CISOs last in their roles for just about one year. The average CISO tenure is ~18/24 months. How can our businesses stay secure in such circumstances?
This is how your ML models are hacked
When Christopher Sestito was heading threat research at Cylance, he woke up to a troubling alert. “Our core intellectual property - our machine learning (ML) model could be compromised. That was the last thing we could have imagined,” he says.
When founders struggle to send investor updates...
Malte Kramer is one of those rare founder CEOs who never misses his monthly investor report. His reporting discipline is probably in the 0.1% of most founders. Very few founders share monthly reports that are precise and consistent. Byron Deeter of Bessemer Venture Partners led Luxury Presence's $25 million Series B recent round for a reason.
CISOs Need to Walk in the Shoes of a Security Analyst
As many as 80 percent of chief information security officers (CISOs) have never been security analysts. This means, they likely have never had to triage, orchestrate, enrich, alert, prioritize, remediate, or ticket security threats….
Hyper Automation - How Orkes.io is tapping into a $500 bn market
If Netflix builds a software product to run some of its most rigorous backend business processes, you can be damn sure that the product will be robust. To serve its 200+ million subscribers seamlessly, Netflix has to spin up a mind boggling array of content. It cannot afford to mess up. If the core team that authored this open source software decides to leave Netflix and build a startup, you can be damn sure they know what they are doing.
Amazing - a pre-revenue startup raises its first round at $350m cap
Dear Fantastic Founder / CEO: Congratulations - just wow! Raising a seed round for a pre revenue company at $350 million cap must feel like hell yeah moment. High fives all around -but I must pass. Because, you might be - just might be disconnected from reality.