Security Architecture Podcast

The podcast features an insightful interview with Frederic from Gleams, a French startup specializing in advanced malware detection and investigation using artificial intelligence. Frederic discusses the company's role in protecting file flows, the differences between malware and viruses, common vectors of attack, challenges of static and dynamic detection, deployment options including air gap environments, and the company's focus on delivering effective threat detection and analysis. Frederic: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric-grelot-3243052a/ Frédéric Grelot began his career at CNES in Toulouse, spending three years in the Spacecraft's Embedded Computers department. There, he worked on designing a hardened computer chip for satellites and handled its validation from VHDL to integration in a satellite model and simulated space environment. In 2012, he joined the cyberdefense teams of the French Ministry of Armed Forces, specializing in reverse-engineering of computer systems and programs for seven years. In 2016-2017, Grelot initiated Artificial Intelligence work at DGA, identifying defense sectors where AI could be applied and helped establish a dedicated AI team. From 2017 to 2019, he led a team of 25 reverse-engineering analysts and continued enhancing his knowledge in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. In 2019, Grelot co-founded GLIMPS, a company specializing in code analysis and malware detection using AI, and served as Scientist Lead. He contributed significantly to the company's outreach and communication. In 2023, he moved to Toronto, Canada, to open GLIMPS's first international office, engaging actively with the local tech and cybersecurity communities. Known for his distinctive profile, he also participated in various conferences and appeared on the national Radio Canada network. Grelot is committed to ecological sustainability, incorporating this perspective into his entrepreneurial endeavors. Glimps: GLIMPS is a cybersecurity company established in 2019 by four experts with a background in reverse-engineering. It offers innovative cybersecurity solutions leveraging a proprietary technology capable of automatically reading and understanding computer code. This technology is designed to enhance the detection and automation of binary analysis and threat identification, providing a significant boost to existing defense lines against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. GLIMPS's solutions, which include GLIMPS Malware, are available in both SaaS and On-premise formats, catering to a broad spectrum of French and international companies and governmental bodies. The firm has achieved recognition within the cybersecurity community, evidenced by prices such as the European Cyber Week award, twice in a row. At the core of GLIMPS's offerings is its Deep Engine, a specialized AI engine based on Deep Learning. This engine excels in deep file analysis, enabling quick detection and characterization of advanced cyber threats. By conceptualizing code, GLIMPS's technology can identify all forms of malware, providing a comprehensive and scientifically validated approach to cybersecurity. This platform processes over one million files daily and serves more than a hundred customers, demonstrating its effectiveness and the trust it has garnered within the industry. GLIMPS also emphasizes collaboration within the French ecosystem, aiming to integrate its solutions where beneficial. The company's growth is underscored by its successful fundraising efforts, which include a €6 million round in 2021, and its continuous search for new talent to join its expanding team​.

Our guest for the show is Ganesh Pa. Ganeshi is Founder & CEO of Uptycs, He was previously Chief Architect, Carrier Products & Strategy for Akamai Technologies, a leading provider of content delivery network services. Prior to Akamai, Ganesh was Founder & VP Systems Architecture of Verivue. Prior to Verivue, he was Principal Architect for NetDevices Whitepaper: https://www.uptycs.com/resources/white-papers/cloud-security-fundamentals Demo link: https://www.uptycs.com/request-demo About Uptycs Uptycs, the first unified CNAPP and XDR platform, reduces risk by prioritizing your responses to threats, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, sensitive data exposure, and compliance mandates across clouds, containers, servers, and workspaces—all from a single UI and data model. Only Uptycs gives you the ability to tie together threat activity as it traverses on-prem and cloud boundaries. The result is a cloud security early warning system that identifies and stops threat actors before they can access critical data and services in the cloud. Take control of your security data, get the correlated insights you care about most, faster, and take decisive action. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ganesh-pai/ Ganesh Pai, Founder and CEO at Uptycs Ganesh Pai is Founder & CEO of Uptycs. He was previously Chief Architect, Carrier Products & Strategy for Akamai Technologies, a leading provider of content delivery network services. Prior to Akamai, Ganesh was Founder & VP Systems Architecture of Verivue. Prior to Verivue, he was Principal Architect for NetDevices. Prior to NetDevices, Ganesh served as Engineering Manager and Software Architect for Sonus Networks. He is a Boston-based entrepreneur and technologist and has been awarded multiple U.S. patents. Ganesh received a BE degree in electronics and communication engineering from Mangalore University and a MS in computer science from Temple University.

Join us for the kickoff episode of Season 5. This season, we are transitioning to explore the best ways to protect infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environments. We will be focusing on the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) and examining how many vendors in the industry address this important domain. We have our dear friend Fernando Montenegro joining us to kick off the season. Fernando is a Senior Principal Analyst on Omdia’s cybersecurity research team, based in Toronto, Canada. He focuses on the Infrastructure Security Intelligence Service, which provides vendors, service providers, and enterprise clients with insights and data on network security, content security, and more. Fernando’s experience in enterprise security environments includes network security, security architecture, cloud security, endpoint security, content security, and antifraud. He has a deep interest in the economic aspects of cybersecurity and is a regular speaker at industry events. Before joining Omdia in 2021, Fernando was an industry analyst with 451 Research. He previously held a variety of operations, consulting, and sales engineering roles over his 25+ years in cybersecurity, always focusing on enterprise security at organizations including vArmour, RSA, Crossbeam, Hewlett Packard, and Nutec/Terra. Fernando holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science and different industry certifications.

Our guest for the show is Sandro, Sandro is a cybersecurity veteran with over 20 years of experience architecting network, cloud, CASB, and remote access security. Sandro manages the technical tasks of the Mammoth Cyber Customer Engagement programs. Before Mammoth Cyber, Sandro launched cloud and network security solutions and customer success services at Valtix, Palo Alto Networks, and Fortinet. Season 4 KickOff episode with Chase    • Season 4 Kickoff ...   White Paper Link: https://d7qns16l91y68.cloudfront.net/... Demo: https://mammothcyber.com/contact About Sando: A cybersecurity veteran with over 20 years of experience architecting network, cloud, CASB and remote access security, Sandro manages the technical tasks of the Mammoth Cyber Customer Engagement programs. Before Mammoth Cyber, Sandro launched cloud and network security solutions and customer success services at Valtix, Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet. About Mammoth: Mammoth Cyber’s Enterprise Access Browser is a new approach with unsurpassed visibility, context and control to provide secure access to remote users and contractors.

Our guest for the show is Moty Jacob CEO of Surf, Moty is cyber security expert with more than 20 years of experience as global CISO and cyber security professional, from the military to the enterprise, Moty has led information security for major enterprises, including Telefonica, Dunnhumby (Tesco), Traiana, and CME group. To promote our work and support the podcast, please review us here  ⁠https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/security-architecture-podcast-1313281⁠ Season 4  KickOff episode with Chase: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWB05cb7XRQ&feature=youtu.be Season 4 KickOff episode with Chase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWB05cb7XRQ&feature=youtu.be Demo: https://www.surf.security/book-a-demo Whitepaper: https://blog.surf.security/solution-brief-zero-trust About Moty https://www.linkedin.com/in/motyacov/ A cyber security expert with more than 20 years of experience as global CISO and cyber security professional, from the military to the enterprise, Moty has led information security for major enterprises, including Telefonica, Dunnhumby (Tesco), Traiana, and CME group. He is a founder of the influential group CyberKingdom – a CISO network that includes more than 200 CISOs from a variety of industries across the UK. About Surf SURF provides users with freedom of work, letting them interact with applications, data, and each other securely. It addresses the critical business asset neglected by security experts for years: The browser. The browser is the access frontier for everything: users, data, corporate assets, applications, development activities - and cybercriminals, too. SURF Security has transformed the browser into your strongest security asset while providing complete end-user privacy – all with full compliance. Through this centralized platform, SURF insists on identity-first access to all SaaS and corporate assets to guarantee a secured and frictionless user experience. SURF enhances security, performance, and productivity for end-users and applications – faster than ever before.

Our guest for the show is Tal Zamir, Tal was previously the Founder & CTO of Hysolate; has a 20-year software industry leader with a track record of solving urgent business challenges by reimagining how technology works. To promote our work and support the podcast, please review us here  https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/security-architecture-podcast-1313281 Season 4  KickOff episode with Chase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWB05cb7XRQ&feature=youtu.be Demo:Book a Demo - Perception Point (perception-point.io) Whitepaper(s): https://perception-point.io/resources/white-papers/whitepaper-rise-cyber-threats-against-email-browsers-cloud-channels/ Tal Zamir Bio:  Previously the Founder & CTO of Hysolate, Tal Zamir is a 20-year software industry leader with a track record of solving urgent business challenges by reimagining how technology works. He has pioneered multiple breakthrough cybersecurity and virtualization products. Tal incubated next-gen end-user computing products while in the CTO office at VMware. Tal began his career in an elite IDF technology unit. He holds multiple US patents as well as an M.Sc in Computer Science from the Technion. Company Overview: Perception Point is a Prevention-as-a-Service company for the fastest and most accurate next-generation isolation, detection, and remediation of all threats across an organization’s main attack vectors - email, web browsers, and cloud collaboration apps.The solution's natively integrated and fully managed incident response service acts as a force multiplier to the SOC team, reducing management overhead, improving user experience and delivering continuous insights; providing proven best protection for all organizations. Deployed in minutes, with no change to the enterprise’s infrastructure, the patented, cloud-native and easy-to-use service replaces cumbersome legacy systems to prevent phishing, BEC, spam, malware, zero-days, ATO, and other advanced attacks well before they reach end-users. Fortune 500 enterprises and organizations across the globe are preventing attacks across their email, web browsers and cloud collaboration channels with Perception Point.

Our guest for the show is Seth Spergel, Managing Partner of Merlin Ventures. Seth brings over 20 years of experience building, selling, and investing in software and startups. He joined us to talk about the Browser security and Browser Isolation market To promote our work and support the podcast, please review us here  https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/security-architecture-podcast-1313281 Season 4  KickOff episode with Chase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWB05cb7XRQ&feature=youtu.be About Seth: Seth Spergel is Managing Partner of Merlin Ventures. Seth brings over 20 years of experience building, selling, and investing in software and startups. Seth came to Merlin from In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment firm of the US Intelligence Community. Prior to In-Q-Tel, Seth was VP of Engineering at ThinkGeek. Seth is a graduate of Brandeis University, where he majored in Computer Science and Economics. About Merlin: Merlin Ventures is the strategic investment arm of Merlin Cyber, a firm with 25 years of experience helping the largest cybersecurity brands in the world tackle the US Federal market. In 2019, we established Merlin Ventures to find the next generation of cybersecurity solutions, and in 2021 stood up our office in Tel Aviv to gain insider access to the unique cybersecurity ecosystem that Israel provides. Leveraging our network of US-based security executives, as well as Merlin Cyber’s public sector go-to-market expertise, Merlin Ventures helps our portfolio companies understand and rapidly accelerate into both commercial and government markets in the US.

Our guest for the show is Alon Levin, Alon is the VP of Product Management at Seraphic, the enterprise browser security solution. With a successful track record of over 15 years in the cybersecurity industry Season 4  KickOff episode with Chase  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWB05cb7XRQ&feature=youtu.be Demo:  https://www.seraphicsecurity.com/contact-us Whitepaper: https://seraphicsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Final-3-ESG-Technical-Validation-Seraphic-Aug-2022.pdf About Alon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alonlevin1/ Alon Levin is the VP of Product Management at Seraphic, the enterprise browser security solution. With a successful track record of over 15 years in the cyber security industry, Alon specializes in building and supporting the growth of new, innovative products in the areas of Product Management, Presales, and Customer Success. Prior to joining Seraphic, he fulfilled numerous leadership positions such as VP of Product Management at Infinipoint, and earlier in VDOO, and as a Global Consulting Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, as well as leading Sales Engineering roles at Cyvera and Wave. Alon holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University. About Seraphic:  Seraphic offers a unique security solution introducing enterprise-grade browser security on any browser on any device, protecting both the employees and the enterprise assets all while providing security teams with advanced governance and policy enforcement. Seraphic’s solution is easy to deploy, has no impact on performance, leaves user experience untouched, and is fully compatible across all browsers, all operating systems, and all devices (including Android and iOS mobile devices).  With Seraphic, security teams are minutes away from closing the most significant blind spot in their organization's cyber defense, securing any browser, any device, anywhere. Learn more at seraphicsecurity.com

Our guest for the show is Nick Edwards, Nick is Vice President, Product Management for Menlo, prior to Menlo he was Nick was CEO of GradientOne.  Season 4  KickOff episode with Chase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWB05cb7XRQ Demo:  https://www.menlosecurity.com/demo/ Whitepaper:  https://resources.menlosecurity.com/white-papers/parting-the-clouds-isolation-for-greater-security About Nick  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-edwards-99387/ Prior to joining Menlo Security as Vice President, Product Management, Nick was CEO of GradientOne. He previously served as Vice President of Marketing and Products with Silver Tail Systems where he led all aspects of product management and marketing. Nick has also held a variety of management positions with Cisco Systems. During his time at Cisco, he built a team of 35 people managing security products with an annual run rate of $500 Million. Nick holds an MBA in Finance from Harvard Business School and a BS in Control Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy. About Menlo Security:  Menlo distinguishes itself from competitors by challenging the traditional approach to protecting against web-based threats with its patented isolation technology, which ensures that customers can enforce the highest security irrespective of where their users are located or what device they are using to work with and access the Internet. Menlo’s unique architecture is inherently capable of meeting the dynamic elastic scale needed to support changing traffic patterns for its customers worldwide. This proven approach supports security first customers and isolates all users and traffic anywhere in the world.

Our guest for the show is  Brian Kenyon, Brian serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at Island, a hot start-up that recently emerged from stealth to deliver the industry’s first Enterprise Browser. Season 4  KickOff episode with Chase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWB05cb7XRQ Demo:  https://www.island.io/contact-us Whitepaper:  https://connect.island.io/hubfs/White%20Papers/whitepaper%20013122_c.pdf About Island:  Island is the developer of the Enterprise Browser – the ideal enterprise workplace, where work flows freely while remaining fundamentally secure. With the core needs of the enterprise naturally embedded in the browser itself, Island gives organizations complete control, visibility and governance over the last mile, while delivering the same smooth Chromium-based browser experience users expect. Led by experienced leaders of the enterprise security and browser technology space and backed by leading venture funds – Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts and Stripes – Island is redefining the future of work for some of the largest, most respected enterprises in the world. Island is based in Dallas with research and development in Tel Aviv About Brian:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianmkenyon Brian comes from more than 20 years of experience driving product strategy, growth initiatives and go-to-market for organizations across all stages. Currently, Brian serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at Island, a hot start up that recently emerged from stealth to deliver the industry’s first Enterprise Browser. As a founding team member of Island, Brian was essential in driving in establishing Island’s product and go-to-market strategies,  as well as part of the leadership team that secured over $100 million in financing from leading early-stage investors including Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts and Stripes.  In addition to being a crucial member of Island’s early stage success, Brian also served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Blue Coat Systems (which was acquired by Symantec in 2016 where he held the same position), as well as chief architect at Foundstone, which McAfee acquired in 2004, where he played an integral role in designing and developing the company’s cutting-edge hardware and software solutions. Upon joining McAfee, he served in a variety of roles including Chief Technology Officer as well as Chief Technical Strategist. Throughout Brian’s career he has been responsible for the strategy engagements of these major company success stories and has the right experience to help entrepreneurs navigate the challenges, successes and roadblocks of early-stage growth.