Juliet Okafor – CEO & Founder at RevolutionCyber

Juliet Okafor, J.D., is a cybersecurity professional who has combined her knowledge of the legal system
and cybersecurity solution models into success stories across fortune 500
industries throughout the USA. Her ability to scope, plan and design the creation of an OT Cybersecurity
Management System framework for one of the largest cruise lines in the world is testament of
her commitment and leadership regardless of the challenge.

She is a passionate security solutions visionary and strategist who builds the Fortune 500 enterprise’s
overarching security strategy that governs all other smaller strategies within. She is the person who
determines how to solve the company’s problem, be it vulnerability management, incident response or
reducing the risk associated with technology or vendors, and then puts a plan into action or roadmap to
remediate the risks in place – using a combination of people, transforming operations and an array of
emerging security technology.

Adrian Sanabria

Senior Research Engineer at CyberRisk Alliance

Lee Neely

Senior Cyber Analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Tyler Shields

CMO at JupiterOne

Joseph Salazar – Technical Deception Engineer at Attivo Networks

Joseph Salazar is a veteran Information Security professional with over 20 years of both military and civilian experience. He is a retired Major from the US Army Reserves, having served 22 years as a Counterintelligence Agent, Military Intelligence Officer, and Cyber-Security Officer. He’s been a Systems and Security Administrator, a CSIRT Analyst, a Security Operations Manager, and a Computer Forensic Investigator in his civilian career. He maintains the CISSP, CEH, and EnCE certifications, holds a BA in Legal Studies from UC Berkeley, and currently works for Attivo Networks as a Technical Marketing Engineer.

Adrian Sanabria

Senior Research Engineer at CyberRisk Alliance

Lee Neely

Senior Cyber Analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Tyler Shields

CMO at JupiterOne

Adrian Sanabria

Senior Research Engineer at CyberRisk Alliance

1. FUNDING: Cyber insurance firm Coalition lands $205M at Series E, valued at $3.5B – So, cyber insurance/cyber security combo firms are a thing now. It’s kind of the inverse of a conflict of interest – it’s more like a _protection of interest_. In fact, if every vendor had some real stakes in preventing their customers from getting breached, the whole cybercrime landscape would likely look very different right now. Resilience and Corvus offer some continuous monitoring and services, but Coalition has nearly a full security program stack that they can deploy to customers.

   They acquired BinaryEdge, an ASM vendor, in early 2020.
   They raised a $90m Series C back in May 2020, with an $890m valuation. (10x the raise)
   They raised a $175m Series D in March 2021, with a $1.75bn valuation. (10x the raise)
   This is a $205m Series E, at a $3.5bn valuation. (17x the raise)

   Their master plan, they propose, is to build an insurance product to fund a security platform, which informs a better insurance product, which leads to better security tools. I’m skeptical, but I can’t hate it. At least it’s a different approach – one that seems to have some sound logic behind it.

2. FUNDING: Cyber risk management platform provider Panorays nabs $42M –
3. FUNDING: SenseOn nabs $20M for faster, more accurate cybersecurity detection and response via its ‘triangulation’ approach – TechCrunch –
4. FUNDING: Jscrambler Raises $15 Million in Series A Funding to Rewrite the Rules of Website Security – REWRITE the rules? Get it? GET IT???
5. FUNDING: Exein raises €6M to fuel the company’s planned architectural product expansion – Help Net Security –
6. FUNDING: EQT Private Equity invests in EC-Council, a global leader in cybersecurity training and certification – Swedish PE firm grabs a significant stake in EC-Council as part of their Asian fund (EC-Council’s founder is Malaysian and they seem to have significant operations in India)
7. ACQUISITION: LG is acquiring automotive cybersecurity startup Cybellum in a $240M deal – TechCrunch –
8. ACQUISITION: OneTrust acquires Tugboat Logic to automate InfoSec assurance and certification –
9. TRENDS: Crossbeam introduces their live security status page – is this the future of vendor management? – Crossbeam is part of a new trend taking a bold step: publicly sharing their current compliance and security status. They’re using an off-the-shelf product to do it, called SafeBase (https://safebase.io) and they’re not the first to do it, just the first that has come to my attention. Any way you look at it, it’s impressive and it’s really where we need to be: Kirckhoff’s Principle really seems to apply here.
10. TRENDS: 386 Startup Failure Post-Mortems – It’s always interesting reading case studies of startup successes and failures. This is a long list of very concise post-mortems. Each one is about a 10-20 second read. One of the 386 failures is even a cybersecurity startup, called Rubica. (I couldn’t really figure out what Rubica did, despite reading several descriptions)
11. SQUIRREL: Here’s everything Amazon announced this morning… – NOTE: co-hosts, don’t read beforehand, I want to do a ‘bluff the listener’ style quiz. I’ll throw out three new products Amazon announced. Two will be made up, one is real. You try to guess which one is real!

Lee Neely

Senior Cyber Analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Tyler Shields

CMO at JupiterOne