Sitemap - 2024 - Venture in Security

Let’s have an honest conversation about the state of cybersecurity

There are four ways to compete as a security platform

Evolving the CISO role: servant leadership, dual career tracks, and permission to fail

There are only two sources of security issues: software bugs and configuration mistakes

5 skills and potential career paths for cybersecurity of the future

Blessed are the lawyers, for they shall inherit cybersecurity

Rick Snyder: How a Founder, VC and Governor is building a safer digital future

Tarpit startup ideas in cybersecurity: five ideas that killed many companies and will definitely kill more

Not every security leader works at a Fortune 500 company

6 tips for VCs looking to build an investment thesis in cybersecurity

10 principles for doing security and building cybersecurity products have remained unchanged since 1995

Platforms vs. best of breed is a wrong way of looking at the industry

A different take on security incident response, pitfalls of IR as a profession, and a path for advancing the field forward

Slavik Markovich: Building Descope & Demisto—brewing coffee and connections in the US-Israel tech scene

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

Inverted crossing the chasm problem in cybersecurity: what founders and investors need to keep in mind

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

Breaking all rules: Bit Discovery’s journey of designing a perfect acquisition target and exiting in 3 years

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

Betting on India: why the country has the potential to become an important player in the global cyber ecosystem

Jon Gelsey: Building Auth0, the only PLG company in cybersecurity to achieve a multi-billion dollar exit

The Wizard of Cyber: what is behind Wiz's success and what got the security industry craving for magic

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

Hiring top performers from large cybersecurity vendors won't help early-stage startups grow, but it can ruin them

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

Most security startups are tackling problems that are too small for the VC model (but there are other ways to build companies, too)

Immigrant background is a perfect crucible that forged many successful cybersecurity founders

Announcing Inside the Network Podcast

The dark side of the moon: demystifying cybersecurity business management for CISOs and security practitioners

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

Medici Effect is real: Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv are still the best places to build a security company

The business of protecting individuals: realities of consumer-focused security, why we cannot expect that people will buy security tools, and what we need to do instead

Three types of consolidation in cybersecurity, and how monopolization and commoditization are shaping the industry of tomorrow

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

Startups that target mature security enterprises should be especially careful about their fundraising strategy

Finding co-founders to build a cybersecurity startup: notes for aspiring security entrepreneurs

Trust no one: why we can't trust most stats about the cybersecurity industry, and why we must stop creating numbers out of thin air

Mental models for cybersecurity startup founders and why Microsoft cannot easily force nimble early-stage companies out of business

Caveat emptor: product-led growth in cybersecurity can be a great idea, but it can also hurt or even kill security startups

Hero culture in cybersecurity: origins, impact, and why we need to break the toxic cycle

Why we need more startups and venture capital in cybersecurity, and what needs to change for the industry to mature

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