Jun 28, 2021
It's just over twenty years since the dot-com bubble burst,
leaving economic chaos and unemployment in its wake. In the years
following, a little-known project – Google Maps – was in its early
stages intending to create more user-friendly maps.
At the same time, Gidi Cohen, CEO of Skybox Security, had a similar
vision, only for the cybersecurity space. "In the same way Google
Maps allows users to understand their terrain, location and how to
interpret traffic lights, we are helping security teams make sense
of their IT network topology."
Through a network model approach to security, Skybox has become a
trusted partner to large enterprises like P&G, Vodafone and
Estee Lauder. Skybox helps these organizations to connect the dots
and get better visibility into the threats that lie within their
fragmented networks, decentralized, inconsistent configurations and
change management processes, unsafe cloud, and network
configurations.
Gidi joins me on the podcast and talks about why it's important to
understand exposure vs. exploitability on vulnerabilities. We also
attempt to demystify security complexity and talk about what is
currently keeping CISO's awake at night.
Gidi also shares his origin story and how he married his passions of math, analytics, technology, and cybersecurity to create Skybox. But even as founder and CEO, how he stills rolls up his sleeves to code.