18 Jul Evolution Equity TV: Who’s Who In Cybersecurity

Produced by Cybersecurity Ventures in Partnership with Evolution Equity.

The Evolution Equity TV channel brings you the latest on hot cybersecurity companies and entrepreneurs, VC deal flow, mergers and acquisitions, industry events, cryptocrime, and more. Evolution Equity Partners, based in New York City and Zurich, Switzerland, is an international venture capital investor partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs to develop market leading cyber-security and enterprise software companies. EvolutionEquity.TV

Leading The Way In Hyperautomation

Leonid Belkind, Co-Founder & CTO at Torq

Torq is leading the way in hyperautomation–the ability to rapidly identify, vet, integrate, and automate as many business and IT processes as possible, explains Leonid Belkind, Co-Founder and CTO. They’re addressing a critical need in the modern cybersecurity portfolio. Torq emancipates security teams from manually managing threat detection and remediation at scale, and ensuring all of their systems are talking to each other, and working together in concert. Torq closed a $70 million Series C funding round earlier last year. Led by Evolution Equity Partners, the round brings Torq’s total raised to $192 million.

Stop Ransomware, Prevent Downtime, Recover Without Backups

Jon Miller, Co-Founder & CEO at Halcyon

Modern defensive cyber solutions, while impressive, have failed in the face of cheap and easy-to-create – and most importantly lucrative – Ransomware, according to Halcyon, an anti-ransomware company. Halcyon claims to have built the first anti-ransomware engine to tackle this problem.  Their team has spent decades building name-brand cybersecurity products and delivering security consulting to much of the Fortune 500. A recent $100M Series C funding round led by Evolution Equity Partners brings the total amount raised to $190M and valued the cybersecurity company at $1B.

Data Security Software for SaaS, GenAI, and Cloud

Rich Vibert, Co-Founder & CEO at Metomic

Collaboration is a data security nightmare, reports VentureBeat. The more accessible data is to employees working remotely, the greater the risk of it falling into the wrong hands. Today’s critical data assets aren’t just residing in tightly controlled on-premises servers, they’re often openly available in SaaS apps and collaboration tools like Slack. A new breed of data security provider is emerging, looking to prevent data leakage from SaaS apps altogether. Metomic, which raised $20 million as part of a series A funding round led by Evolution in 2023, specializes in using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect data leaks in SaaS apps.

Enterprise CISO On The Cybersecurity Talent Crunch

Jason Shockey, CISO at Cenlar FSB

Jason Shockey is chief information security officer at New Jersey-based Cenlar FSB, the leading mortgage loan subservicing company in the U.S. In this In this episode, he joins host Steve Morgan, editor-in-chief at Cybercrime Magazine, to discuss the cybersecurity talent shortage and career opportunities in our field. This episode is brought to you by our partner, Evolution Equity Partners, an international venture capital investor partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs to develop market-leading cybersecurity and enterprise software companies.

Cyber Crisis Management & Response

Nimrod Kozlovski, founder & CEO at Cytactic

Cytactic, the platform pioneering cyber crisis readiness and management, announced Jul. 10 a $16 million seed funding round led by Evolution Equity Partners, a renowned cybersecurity venture capital fund. Cytactic’s platform emerged as a response to the devastating losses experienced by numerous organizations due to cyber incidents. Many of them are a direct result of poor synchronization among stakeholders, inadequate information flow, complex decision-making processes when rapid response is required, the involvement of numerous stakeholders, and more. This episode of Evolution Equity TV features Nimrod Mozlovski, founder and CEO at Cytactic.

2024/2025 Cybersecurity Almanac

100 Facts, Figures, Predictions and Statistics

Cybersecurity Ventures released the fourth annual edition of the Cybersecurity Almanac, a handbook containing the most pertinent data for understanding cybercrime and the cybersecurity market. We have something for everyone, including academia, government, law enforcement, small-to-midsized businesses, Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, IT workers, cybersecurity experts, CIOs and CISOs, the boardroom, and C-suite executives. The Almanac is brought to you by Evolution Equity.

BILL’s CISO On Women In Cybersecurity

Rinki Sethi, VP & CISO at BILL

Rinki Sethi is vice president and chief information security officer (CISO) at BILL (NYSE: BILL), a publicly traded leader in financial automation software for small and midsize businesses. Sethi previously held the CISO position at Twitter and Rubrik, and before that VP, Information Security for IBM and Palo Alto Networks. In this episode of Evolution Equity TV, she joins host Steve Morgan to discuss women in cybersecurity and more. There’s a funny story at the beginning that you don’t want to miss!

Fortune 500 CISO On Diversity In Cybersecurity

Adam Fletcher, Chief Security Officer at Blackstone

Adam Fletcher is chief security officer at Blackstone, a Fortune 500 company and the world’s largest alternative asset manager with $1 trillion in assets under management. In this episode, he joins host Steve Morgan and Richard Seewald, founder and managing Partner at Evolution Equity Partners, to discuss the past, present, and future of cybercrime and cybersecurity. This episode was brought to you by our partner, Evolution Equity Partners, an international venture capital investor partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs to develop market-leading cybersecurity and enterprise software companies.

Security That Sets Your Business Free

Jim Alkove, Oleria, CEO & Co-Founder at Oleria

Oleria, a startup providing access management tools primarily for enterprise customers, announced in Jan. 2024 that it raised $33 million in a Series A round led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Tapestry Ventures and Zscaler. Oleria was co-founded in 2022 by Jim Alkove and Jagadeesh Kunda, reports TechCrunch. Alkove, an ex-Microsoft CVP and former “chief trust officer” at Salesforce, where he met Kunda, says that he’d “long been vexed” by the challenge of delivering cybersecurity while not preventing business partners from doing their jobs.

Hacking In The Hamptons

The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Security

Cybersecurity Ventures went to the Hamptons to try and figure out what role artificial intelligence (AI) is going to play in cybersecurity near term and looking ahead. 3 top thought leaders joined Steven Morgan, editor-in-chief at Cybercrime Magazine, on a panel with excellent insights for CISOs and cybercrime fighters globally. Watch the panel with Richard Seewald, founder & managing partner at Evolution Equity Partners; Deneen DeFiore, VP & chief information security officer at United Airlines; and Ian Swanson, CEO & co-founder of Protect AI.

Fortune 500 CISO On The Cybersecurity Talent Crunch

Susan Koski, CISO at PNC

Susan Koski is chief information security officer at PNC, a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest diversified financial services institutions in the U.S. In this episode of “CISO Talk,” she joins Steve Morgan, founder of Cybersecurity Ventures and editor-in-chief at Cybercrime Magazine, and Richard Seewald, founder and managing partner at Evolution Equity Partners, for an insightful discussion on the cybersecurity talent crunch, women in cybersecurity including CISO roles, generative AI, and a number of other topics of interest to the security leadership community.

Hacking In The Hamptons

The past, present, and future of CISOs

Sometimes, it takes that little something special for the name of a place to take on an evocative meaning of its own. This transformation long ago turned The Hamptons, an erstwhile potato farming area that in the late 1800s became a favored coastal holiday destination for New York City’s industrial giants, into a lifestyle — and an architectural style — that is recognized worldwide. Cybercrime Magazine and Evolution Equity Partners go “Hacking In The Hamptons” in this second panel on the history of CISOs.

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Evolution Equity Partners, Annual Investor Meeting

Dec. 5, 2023, New York City

Evolution Equity Partners, an international venture capital investor partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs to develop market-leading cybersecurity and enterprise software companies, held its 2023 annual investor meeting at the Ritz Carlton NoMad in New York City. A who’s who in cybersecurity gathered at this prestigious event. Cybersecurity Ventures was on hand to meet some of the brightest minds in our industry. Cybercrime Magazine captured some of the key moments in this 2-minute highlight reel. Watch the video and learn about some of the hottest cybersecurity startups on the planet.

Fortune 500 CISO On AI, ML & Cybersecurity

Laura Deaner, CISO at Northwestern Mutual

Laura Deaner, chief information security officer at Northwestern Mutual, named by Fortune as one of the world’s most admired life insurance companies with over 6,400 financial advisors and professionals nationwide, appears on the “CISO Talk” show with Richard Seewald, founder and managing partner at Evolution Equity Partners, and Steve Morgan, founder of Cybersecurity Ventures and editor-in-chief at Cybercrime Magazine, for an insightful discussion on artificial intelligence, machine learning, cybersecurity, cybercrime and a whole lot more.

Cryptocrime Rising

Simone Maini, CEO at Elliptic

Founded in 2013, Elliptic pioneered the use of blockchain analytics for financial crime compliance. They are a leading provider of crypto compliance solutions globally. As the technology matures, new blockchains emerge and regulations evolve — but their mission has remained the same: To protect their customers from financial crime in cryptoassets. Simone Maini, CEO at Elliptic, joins us for a discussion on trends in cryptocrime, and cryptosecurity in the latest episode of Evolution Equity TV.

Easily Secure Your AI & ML Systems

Ian Swanson, CEO at Protect AI

Protect AI is building a safer AI Powered World by empowering a community of ML security researchers, finding unique exploits, and providing tools to reduce risk inherent in MLOps pipelines. MLSecOps puts security at the heart of ML design, enabling ML developers to continue rapidly innovating while protecting against unique ML vulnerabilities. Ian Swanson, CEO of this hot startup, gives us the 30,000-foot view in the latest episode of Evolution Equity TV.

Hacking In The Hamptons

The past, present and future of Cybersecurity

Sometimes, it takes that little something special for the name of a place to take on an evocative meaning of its own. This transformation long ago turned The Hamptons, an erstwhile potato farming area that in the late 1800s became a favored coastal holiday destination for New York City’s industrial giants, into a lifestyle — and an architectural style — that is recognized worldwide. Cybercrime Magazine and Evolution Equity Partners go “Hacking In The Hamptons” in this first panel on the history of cybersecurity.

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Fortune 500 CISO Talks About Women In Cybersecurity

Deneen DeFiore, VP & CISO at United Airlines

Research from Cybersecurity Ventures shows that women make up around 25 percent of the cybersecurity workforce, and that number is trending up. We believe it’s important to get the word out that women are wanted, respected, and valued in the ever-going fight against cyber thieves. Deneen DeFiore, VP and CISO at United Airlines, is in the popular book — Women Know Cyber: 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime — and she talks to us about how we can bring more women into the field.

F500 CISO On The Past, Present, And Future of Cyber Threats

Jamil Farshchi, EVP & CISO at Equifax

Jamil Farshchi, EVP and chief information security officer at Atlanta, Ga.-based Equifax, a global data, analytics, and technology company with 14,000 employees in 28 countries, appears on the inaugural “CISO Talk” show and shares about the past, present, and future of cybercrime and cybersecurity with Richard Seewald, founder and managing partner at Evolution Equity Partners. In terms of the cyber threats faced by CISOs and their organizations, Farshchi says that, surprisingly, not a whole lot has changed over the past decade.

Be Bright About Securing Your Apps And APIs

Gadi Bashvitz, CEO at Bright Security

If you’d like to secure your applications and APIs for both technical and business logic vulnerabilities at the speed of DevOps, with minimal false positives, then watch Gadi Bashvitz, CEO at Bright Security, in this episode of Evolution Equity TV. Bashvitz explains how to avoid security being an afterthought or becoming a bottleneck to DevOps. Founded in 2018, Bright Security, with offices in the U.S., Israel, and Georgia, is a developer-centric Dynamic Application Security Testing Solution, also known as a DAST. 

Stop Attacks Across Your Software Supply Chain

Neatsun Ziv, Co-Founder & CEO at OX Security

OX believes that security should be an integral part of the software development process, not an afterthought. Founded by Neatsun Ziv and Lior Arzi, who previously led Check Point’s Security Group, OX provides DevSecOps teams with the automation, visibility, and risk insights they need to bring security and integrity to every step of the software development lifecycle, from the earliest planning stages until deployment to production.

Cybersecurity for the Future of Work

Ofer Ben-Noon, co-founder & CEO at Talon

Ofer Ben-Noon has been there, done that, and now he’s doing it again. The founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup Talon was previously founder and CEO at Argus Cyber Security, a high flyer in the automotive space that was acquired by German tire and advanced car components maker Continental for a reported $430 million in 2017. Now Ben-Noon is leading Talon’s market push on the heels of its recent $100 million Series A funding led by Evolution Equity Partners. If history repeats itself, then Ben-Noon’s bet on securing the future of work is sure to pay off.

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Former White House CIO Unpacks The FTX Crypto Chaos

A deep dive with cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton

If you want the Who, What, Where, When, and Why around the FTX crypto crash, then watch former White House CIO Theresa Payton and Hillarie McClure, VP of Multimedia Production at Cybercrime Magazine, in a deep dive discussion around Sam Bankman-Fried and his escapades while at the helm of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and its sister quantitative crypto trading firm Alameda Research. “It reads like a Hollywood script,” says Payton, referring to SBF’s shenanigans.

Evolution Equity TV: Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Oz Alashe, CEO & Founder at CybSafe

Since 2004, the President of the United States and Congress have declared October to be Cybersecurity Awareness Month, helping individuals and businesses to protect themselves online as threats to technology and confidential data become more commonplace. This month, Oz Alashe, CEO and founder at CybSafe, a security awareness training company, talks to Cybercrime Magazine on Evolution Equity TV.

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Evolution Equity TV On The Latest Crypto Hacks

A look at cyberattacks targeting cryptocurrency platforms

Scott Schober, author of Hacked Again and Chief Security Officer for Cybersecurity Ventures, joins Steve Morgan, Editor-in-Chief at Cybercrime Magazine, for a deep dive into the world of cryptocrime, and some of the emerging cryptosecurity companies we’re following. Who’s hacked: Beanstalk; Binance; Bitmart Crypto; Crypto.com; Horizon bridge; Nomad bridge; Wintermute; Wormhole; and others.  

Evolution Equity TV At Black Hat USA 2022

Cybersecurity VC Deal Flow 1H 2022; Cryptocrime Trends

Evolution Equity Partners At RSA Conference USA 2022

Hot cybersecurity startups and emerging players at the world’s largest cyber event

Cybercrime Magazine met up with Richard Seewald, founder and managing partner at Evolution Equity Partners, at the RSA Conference USA 2022 in San Francisco, the world’s largest cybersecurity conference. Our special coverage featured some of the most innovative cybersecurity companies exhibiting their wares — including Talon Cyber Security, CybSafe, SecurityScorecard, Pentera, Beyond Identity, and others.

Beyond Identity CEO: Passwords Plague The World

Cybersecurity high-flier answers with invisible multi-factor authentication

Ask Thomas Jermoluk what the biggest problem with today’s security is, and he’s unlikely to even pause for a breath before answering. “Passwords,” he told Cybercrime Magazine. “Over 85 percent of the issues today with account takeover, ransomware, and supply chain attacks all emanate from this single problem. Passwords are a fundamentally insecure, shared secret mechanism that has been a plague on our industry for 30 years now — and it’s getting worse and worse with the hybrid workforce and remote workforce that has gone on due to COVID.”

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Arqit Helps Prepare The World For ‘Q-Day’

Fledgling company brings quantum-safe encryption to the cloud

At some point in the not-too-distant future, the arrival of the so-called “Q-Day” will see quantum computers able to crack the encryption algorithms used to store the world’s most sensitive data — and years of encryption algorithms will suddenly become obsolete. David Williams is confident that he’s cracked the problem. The UK-based firm he founded, Arqit, worked to find a solution by developing a new way of generating and using cryptography keys so that public key infrastructure (PKI) systems could be designed to resist brute-force attacks by future quantum computers.

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Partnerships Power TrueFort’s Zero-Trust Application Security

A chance meeting at RSA Conference led to backing from Evolution Equity Partners

No matter how much talent they have — or how good their technology is — startups inevitably face a common challenge as they push hard to scale their business to the size and capability that their target market requires. The founders of fintech startup TrueFort, who tapped years of financial-services experience to build a zero-trust security platform, faced this challenge several years into their journey. Despite “tremendous” growth, it quickly became clear that continuing the company’s success story would require the support of investors that understood the company’s technology and appreciated its future potential.

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How Pentera Became A Cybersecurity Unicorn

Fledgling automated pen-testing company has nearly 500 customers

After years running penetration testing within the Israeli Army, Arik Liberzon came to realize something that would eventually see him founding a company that became Israel’s latest cybersecurity unicorn. Pen-testing and red-teaming, Liberzon and co-founder Arik Faingold found, were treated as black arts, and poorly understood by the Army leaders — when in fact much of what was being done was routine, repetitive and well-defined. That meant it was ripe for automation — and in 2015, they founded Tel Aviv-based Pcysys, which spawned a rapidly-growing business in automated security validation and was renamed Pentera.

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Quantexa’s CEO Knows Hypergrowth Requires More Than Money

Founder credits VC expertise as financial analytics firm nears unicorn status

In a market where enthusiastic investors are pumping massive amounts of funding into cutting-edge startups and scaleups, just getting that funding is only a small part of the challenge; even harder, said Vishal Marria, is getting the right expertise to spend it as effectively as possible. That might seem counterintuitive for CEOs that are used to talking up their business ambitions to outshine rivals in the fight to win over venture capitalists. But when it comes down to it, explains Marria — CEO of London, UK-based data-analytics star Quantexa — the biggest business value will come from the expertise and connections that come along with that money.

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Cape Privacy Propelled By VC Funding And Guidance

Fast growing startup protects highly confidential data in the cloud

Building highly specialized security technologies can be a way to stand out in a crowded market, but Cape Privacy CEO Chè Wijesinghe knows that building the brain trust to deliver and scale innovative technology can be extremely expensive. For companies like Cape Privacy — whose core business is built around the use of machine learning to analyze encrypted customer or other data — having the financial backing of strong investor partners made all the difference. “Early stage investors look for a great team or a great product idea — and ultimately, execution becomes everything.”

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VC Firm Pours Rocket Fuel Into Cybersecurity Rocket Ship

Evolution Equity invests much more than money into SecurityScorecard

It may be a billion-dollar unicorn and VC darling now, but in its early days back in 2013, co-founder and CEO Aleksandr Yampolskiy recalls, SecurityScorecard’s founders were having trouble finding venture capitalists who believed enough in the idea to back it with money. “When we started talking to investors back in 2013, people just didn’t understand the power of what it could become,” he told Cybercrime Magazine. “One investor said we would never be able to build it. Another rejected me because it wasn’t as interesting as a consumer iPhone app he had invested in.”

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