Venture in Security

Going into 2026: what founders and security leaders need to know

A year-end reflection about the state of cyber

Dec 16 • Ross Haleliuk

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Going deeper into layer zero: must-know for the cyber industry insiders

A deeper dive into the concept that defines which cyber companies win and which lose

Dec 9 • Ross Haleliuk

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Top 12 deep dives to understand the cybersecurity market

A selection of 12 of the most critical deep dives for anyone looking to truly understand our industry

Dec 2 • Ross Haleliuk

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November 2025

Most cyber companies simply can’t scale as fast as the new AI startups

How AI is changing what solid growth looks like and what this means for cyber startups

Nov 25 • Ross Haleliuk

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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing security problems that never happened

We in security aren’t unique in our challenges, but we sure know how to take the problems everyone else has and crank them up to eleven.

Nov 18 • Ross Haleliuk

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Not getting incentives right can kill a security initiative or a security startup

And it can make the lives of security teams really hard

Nov 11 • Ross Haleliuk

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Behind every successful security company is a software engineer you’ve never heard of

Software engineers are building the future of security, not just adding vulnerabilities

Nov 4 • Ross Haleliuk

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October 2025

AI doesn’t make it much easier to build security startups

A somehow contrarian take on how AI impacts the ability to build security companies

Oct 28 • Ross Haleliuk

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Redefining “critical infrastructure” for the modern age

Why it’s not just power grid and water, but also tools like Stripe and Twilio that should be defined as critical infrastructure

Oct 21 • Ross Haleliuk

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Learned helplessness is hurting the security industry

Cybersecurity is suffering from a severe case of learned helplessness, and we have to overcome it

Oct 14 • Ross Haleliuk

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To truly understand the state of the security market, we need to look beyond our industry

There are other ways to look at the commonly accepted “truths” in security

Oct 7 • Ross Haleliuk

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September 2025

Three aspects of the cyber ecosystem I was wrong about not too long ago

An honest reflection on where my thinking has evolved

Sep 30 • Ross Haleliuk

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