Sitemap - 2024 - Venture in Security
There are no magic bullets, and every purchasing decision in security comes with trade-offs
Security awareness won’t save us, and people will continue clicking on links (as they should)
Support my work - help 'Cyber for Builders' win the most prestigious award in the industry
Splunk, Okta, Cylance, Palo Alto, CrowdStrike, and Zscaler mafias in cybersecurity
Lifting the world out of the cybersecurity poverty
Doug Merritt: Creating a decacorn in Splunk and identifying trends
Cyber optimist manifesto: why we have reasons to be optimistic about the future of cybersecurity
Let’s get real: there is no such thing as “gatekeeping” in cybersecurity
Every successful security platform started as a point solution
Palo Alto isn’t going to buy everyone: the anatomy of cybersecurity startup exits
Marty Roesch: Scaling Sourcefire and creating a new way to monetize open source security software
Blessed are the software engineers, for they shall inherit cybersecurity
Cybersecurity technology adoption cycle and its implications for startups and security teams
I am now based in San Francisco - excited to become a part of the local community
To become a better cybersecurity startup founder, you need to master writing
Cybersecurity is not a market for lemons. It is a market for silver bullets.
Ron Gula: Bootstrapping Tenable to $100M revenue and becoming an influencer
Dmitri Alperovitch: Building CrowdStrike and defending against nation states
Most of the security teams’ work has nothing to do with chasing advanced adversaries
A list of cybersecurity-focused charities and nonprofits
Challenges in Security Engineering Programs
Immigrant background is a perfect crucible that forged many successful cybersecurity founders
Announcing Inside the Network Podcast
In 2024, finding cybersecurity startup ideas worth pursuing is harder than many people think
Building platforms in cybersecurity: select playbooks for growing “best of suite” solutions
Customer love: a recipe for building winning cybersecurity startups
How the top cybersecurity talent can immigrate to the United States
Securing critical infrastructure in the US is not a policy problem, it’s a market problem
Finding co-founders to build a cybersecurity startup: notes for aspiring security entrepreneurs
Hero culture in cybersecurity: origins, impact, and why we need to break the toxic cycle
My new book “Cyber for Builders" is now available on Amazon
It’s complicated: wrapping up a year of excitement with AI in security and security for AI