Venture in Security

The lazy myth that CISOs “don’t understand the business” has to go

Talking about the lazy myth of the “too technical, too much into the weeds” CISO

Feb 3 • Ross Haleliuk

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January 2026

If you ask these two questions, you’re asking the wrong thing

How two of the most frequently asked questions in security are completely missing the point

Jan 27 • Ross Haleliuk

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ServiceNow is betting on “workflow gravity” to win against the platforms of Palo Alto, CrowdStrike, Cisco, Zscaler, and Microsoft

How ServiceNow is planning to compete with Palo Alto, CrowdStrike, Cisco, Zscaler, and Microsoft and what advantages it has over the competition.

Jan 13 • Ross Haleliuk

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December 2025

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

A year-end reflection about the state of cyber

Dec 16, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • Ross Haleliuk

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