About Genealogy of Cybersecurity - Startup Podcast
Interviews with founders, startup-advising CISOs, venture capitalists, and analysts discussing the issues of cybersecurity, new threats, and emerging technology. The Genealogy of Cyber Security brings listeners into forward-thinking conversations with industry visionaries, to explore big ideas, and discuss out-innovating the competition.
Ep 16. Varun Badhwar on Pioneering Security Posture Management, and the Story of RedLock
Founder spotlight interview with Varun Badhwar. Varun is the current CEO of EndorLabs, a three-time Innovation Sandbox finalist, and known for founding cloud security posture management startup RedLock, which became Palo Alto Networks PRISMA Cloud.Varun tells stories about evangelizing the new ways of cloud posture management with RedLock’s Cloud Security Intelligence (CSI) unit that quietly presenting vulnerabilities to potential customers. He contrasts the differences with running startups ...
10 Oct 2023
Ep. 15 Founder Mike Fey on Incubating Startups, AI and the Future of Web Browsing
CEO and Founder of Enterprise Browser startup Island, Mike Fey, talks about entrepreneurship, innovation, and the future of web browsing. Paul explores Mike's experiences working with venture capitalists like CyberStarts and Sequoia, and startup-advising CISOs, getting early customer feedback during the ideation, seed, and early growth stages. Mike describes the origin story behind Insland and Enterprise Browsers.Mike and Paul discuss AI, ChatGPT, and what new applications we may see AI used ...
25 Sept 2023
Ep 14. Privacy is in the Code: Relyance AI's Solution for DevOps Data Flows
Innovation Sandbox finalist and Relyance AI Founder Abhi Sharma discuss privacy and compliance in a world where every company is a software company, and DevOps code produces so many data flows with your private and regulated data. Abhi points out a privacy solution must govern DevOps, “privacy is in the code.” Abhi discusses NLP, LLMs, OpenAI, and Chat GPT, and how Relyance AI’s intelligence understands privacy clauses in compliance documents, contracts, SLAs, etc., and having shifted le...
12 Sept 2023
Ep 13. Zama on the Holy Grail of AI Privacy, Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Innovation Sandbox finalist, Cryptographer, and Zama VP Benoit Chevallier-Mames discuss Zama’s efforts to bring fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) into commercial use. How FHE would allow application developers and customers to benefit from the insights obtained by sharing data with AI providers, like OpenAI or ChatGPT, but without exposing private data.Benoit goes through some of the mathematical magic behind FHE, what ML approaches it enables, and some of its history. Benoit explains why fu...
28 Aug 2023
Ep 12. Astrix Security on Threat of 3rd Party API Connections and Non-Human Identities
Innovation Sandbox finalist and Astrix Security Founder Idan Gour discuss the rising attack surface created by API-to-API connections and non-human identities. How no-code orchestration tools, low code tools, and generative AI, like ChatGPT, are causing non-technical business users to build integration apps that access and sometimes share sensitive data.Idan discusses mapping this web of API-to-API connections, which traffic sensitive data from SaaS apps like Google Workspace, 365, Calendly, ...
8 Aug 2023
Ep 11. Valence Security on SaaS-to-SaaS Mesh, Shadow Integrations and Generative AI
Innovation Sandbox finalist and Valence Security Founder Yoni Shohet discuss the new SaaS-to-Saas attack surface produced by the proliferation of shadow integrations between SaaS apps. Today users are typically SaaS admins and often okay SaaS App requests to access other apps like their Calendar, Email, or SalesForce. Yoni explains how automation tools for non-developers are expanding the problem, with no-code orchestration, ChatGPT, and Generative AI-producing integration apps, not to m...
24 Jul 2023
Ep 10. Endor Labs on Code Vulnerabilities, Sketchy Open Source Developers, and Software Supply Chain
Innovation Sandbox finalist and Endor Labs Founder Varun Badhwar discuss the magnitude of open-source vulnerabilities, highlighting the developers behind vulnerabilities like CoreJS and Log4shell, and why strategic pieces of the internet depend on libraries that sometimes rest on a single part-time open-source developer, even developers with prison records.Varun talks about his past pioneering cloud security posture management (CSPM) with RedLock and Palo Alto Network’s PRISMA cloud, and Endo...
11 Jul 2023
Ep 9. Concentric AI on NLP, ChatGPT, and Data Security Posture Management
Concentric AI Founder Karthik Krishnan discusses the new Data Security Posture Management market and answers the age-old questions of what data you have, where is it, and who’s accessing it. Karthik discusses advances in AI, natural language processing (NLP), Open AI ChatGPT, Large Language Models (LLMs), and what it all means to data classification and society.Karthik Krishnan explains the incredible expenses and human power required to classify and govern data, and how Concentric AI’s DSPM ...
26 Jun 2023
Ep. 8 CISO Sebastian Goodwin on Advising DSPM and Automation Startups
Chief Trust Officer Autodesk and recent CISO of Nutanix Sebastian Goodwin discusses advising startup, Concentric AI, in the new data security posture management (DSPM) space, and the importance of locating your data as a prerequisite for security. Sebastian and Paul discuss the recent maturity of natural language processing (NLP), and how ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) are impacting the startup world. Also discussed are key questions, like how to wade through the AI hype and setting...
13 Jun 2023
Ep 7. Security Practitioner Trends from 2,400 RSA Conference Submissions
Join the podcast as we dive into a fascinating conversation with Britta Glade, the Vice President of Content and Curation at RSA Conference. Discover the world of "people's trends" as Britta sheds light on her team's meticulous analysis of 2,400 speaker submissions from influential practitioners in the industry. Get an insider's perspective on RSA's technical session selection process, where industry experts and data science come together to uncover valuable insights and emerging trends.Host ...
29 May 2023
Ep 6. RSAC Innovation Sandbox 2023 Emerging Trends: AI and Automation Attack Surfaces
Paul Shomo’s 7th annual coverage of the RSAC’s startup competition, Innovation Sandbox, is out in DarkReading. In this episode, Paul recaps the show, tells you things you didn’t know about the finalists, some private thoughts from the judges, and highlights a very interesting trend in 2023: automation, ML and software-building tools are creating dangerous attack surfaces, that preoccupy 8 or 9 of this year’s 10 finalists.Paul discusses Hugh Thompson and Paul Kocher’s quirky humor, how the jud...
10 May 2023
Ep 5. Pangea - State of AppSec, DevSecOps, Enabling Developers to Code Securely
Interview with Innovation Sandbox 2nd place winner, Pangea. Pangea CEO Oliver Friedrichs, a former Founder of orchestration phenom Phantom, discusses the state of AppSec and what is wrong with the shift-left movement. Pangea discusses how shifting-left-of-left can bypass both arguments between SecDevOps and app developers, and false positives in code analysis. Paul forgets he’s met Oliver before and then wonders how many security products could be eliminated if developers wrote secure c...
25 Apr 2023
Ep 4. Innovation Sandbox Winner, Hidden Layer, on ML System Attacks and MITRE Atlas
Hidden Layer Founder Chris Sestito of RSAC Innovation Sandbox winner Hidden Layer, discusses AI adversarial attacks on ML systems, the ease of stealing intellectual property with ML, Chris Sestito’s history at Cylance building next-gen ML systems, and a historic 2019 attack on Cylance using adversarial ML. Hidden Layer brings us up to speed on this new important attack surface. Paul and Chris discuss MITRE’s new framework for attacks on ML systems, MITRE Atlas, and if the media is under ...
11 Apr 2023
Ep 3. Island on Enterprise Browsers Solving Data Loss and Unmanaged Devices
Island CEO Mike Fey discusses unmanaged devices and the enterprise browser as the cloud’s successor to Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Paul and Mike discuss how Island’s browser is disrupting the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and the Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) industries. Paul and Mike debate whether these new browsers can create a secure edge to the cloud by themselves, or not. Mike explains how Microsoft and Google teaming up on the Chromium open source code base allows Is...
21 Mar 2023
Ep 2. CISO Bob Schuetter on Data Loss, Startup Advising, and Cloud’s Secure Edge
Ashland CISO Bob Schuetter on brainstorming secure enterprise browsers in their startup's incubation period. Bob discusses building the cloud’s secure edge, and how new web browsers like Island’s (@island_io) will disrupt Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) industries. Bob and Paul explore exactly why DLP failed and if there should be optimism for the SASE vision. They wrap up by discussing automation with the suddenly emerging AI virtual assistant startup...
14 Mar 2023
Ep 1. StrikeReady on AI Virtual Assistants and Incident Response
StrikeReady’s Chief Product Officer, Anurag Gurtu, discusses AI virtual assistants, the younger generation’s AI optimism, the problems of incident response, and the automation possibilities of artificial intelligence. Anurag and Paul explore how virtual assistants will disrupt cybersecurity, orchestration, SIEM, SOAR, and managed services. Building and training virtual assistants is more complex than it appears, emerging products may need to deliver an ecosystem of familiar tools for bots to ...
8 Mar 2023
Sneak Peek
The Genealogy of Innovation is a new kind of cybersecurity podcast, focusing on interviewing the people involved in emerging tech. Here we’ll interview top entrepreneurs, startup-advising CISOs, and analysts. Our topic? What’s wrong with cybersecurity. Security is an arms race full of hype. But when you focus on the inception point of innovation, you meet fascinating people who simply have better access to information. That’s how they outflank the competition.
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
Apple Podcasts (US)
4.8 / 5
20 ratings
Contact Genealogy of Cybersecurity - Startup Podcast
Guest appearances
Books guests
Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.
Host of Genealogy of Cybersecurity - Startup Podcast?
Claim your podcast to manage its listing and keep your show details accurate.
Pod Engine is an independent podcast discovery and analytics service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by this podcast. Artwork and show content belong to their owners. Full legal notice.
Explore this show Podcast research with Pod Engine
