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leadership

On insight, responsibility, and ownership

Recognizing a problem qualifies you to be a part of the solution. Refusing to be a part of the solution disqualifies you from complaining about the

02 Jan 2018 · 1 min read
leadership

Living intentionally

Happy New Year! Pretty much everyone I’ve spoken agrees on the same thing: 2017 was a turbulent, change-filled year packed with as many high-

01 Jan 2018 · 1 min read
vulnerability-disclosure

Thoughts on the vault7 CIA/Wikileaks disclosures

Wikileaks’ release of thousands of confidential CIA documents today is yet another demonstration of our just how vulnerable the cybersecurity domain is. Unless we do a

07 Mar 2017 · 2 min read
Security

My cybersecurity predictions for 2017

If 2016 did anything for cybersecurity, it was to prove that truth can end up wayyyyyyy stranger than fiction (where fiction, of course, are end of

19 Dec 2016 · 1 min read
Building

How to disrupt a sleepy incumbent

When building a product or company that’s designed to disrupt a sleepy incumbent there are four phases of typical interaction you’ll have with your future competition.

23 Jun 2016 · 1 min read
Security

Solve 99% of Your Infosec Problems with this One Weird Trick!

99% of good infosec is equivalent to remembering to wash your hands after you use the bathroom. As an industry, we should be working to make that easier.

31 May 2016 · 1 min read
leadership

The three levels of input

A great tip one of our board members gave me a while back was that, as leadership and influence grow, it becomes increasingly important to make sure your team knows the type of input you’re giving them.

31 May 2016 · 1 min read
Thinking

People are awesome...

…and I’m not just talking about those kick-ass Youtube videos that pop up each year. I have a core belief that people are intrinsically

22 Apr 2016 · 1 min read
Building

What a day! (Bugcrowd Series B)

So, Bugcrowd announced some pretty big news today… We closed our Series B financing of $15M, announced some amazing new partners in Salesforce and Industry Ventures.

20 Apr 2016 · 1 min read
Security

Pain of staying the same > Pain of change = Change

Cybersecurity has long been a challenge lead from the top down, but as heat increases in the consumer market and hacking becomes dinner-table conversation at non-geek dinner-tables, I wonder...

21 Mar 2016 · 1 min read
vulnerability-disclosure

On the U.S. Government and bug bounties

My favorite thing about going to conferences is establishing the underlying trends behind the questions I’m asked. We’re only half-way through RSAC/BSides

06 Mar 2016 · 3 min read
Building

Repeat after me — I am not ashamed of sales and marketing!

I find that people are often ashamed, almost embarrassed to talk about sales and marketing. “Yeah, we’re going OK, we’re actually… kind of, you

26 Jan 2016 · 1 min read