As Magnus Malmström, vice president of products at Nexus Group tells us, Nexus is an established European security company that underwent a significant “makeover” a year ago. They now focus on providing total security solutions – both hardware and software – to meet today’s current and emerging

How has your company evolved from its inception to becoming a world leading antivirus? We started Avira over 30 years ago. Back then, our goal was to help friends and family with computer problems. The rise of new and unknown threats in the late 80's led us to servicing businesses and

As technology development is broken down into smaller and smaller parts with hundreds of vendors involved in the creation of products – Berkeley Varitronics stands out as a one-stop-shop for carefully designed technologies. Scott Schober, CEO of Berkeley Varitronics, discusses why some of the

The story of BankVault is a story of pivots. What started as a supercomputing project to create self-evolving IT infrastructure, went through a pivot that resulted in a new type of cyber technology.  It initially targeted SMB’s (Small and Medium Businesses) to stop bank account takeovers by cyber

As Ameesh Divatia, the co-Founder and CEO of Baffle, likes to say, we need to accept that data breaches are a fact of computing life today. However, his company’s goal is to make these breaches irrelevant by efficiently encrypting data wherever it may be, so that even if there is a security breach,

More and more companies today are subject to strict compliance and regulatory requirement regarding much of the data that they store in their system. In general, data privacy is becoming a greater concern for most enterprises. Cliff White, the CTO of Accellion explains how his company’s kiteworks

Alcide is the lesser-known name of Hercules, the gatekeeper of Olympus. The Greek hero keeps a constant and watchful eye over Mount Olympus — from its base to its summit — in search of intruders. Inspired by our namesake Alcide is the gatekeeper to your cloud enterprise operations, where the crown

Tell us a bit about yourself and your background before starting a vpn service. How did you get started as a VPN service? I've been an entrepreneur for over 15 years. Amongst projects that I have started there are numerous affiliate programs, file-hosting and peer-to-peer services service,

In my discussion with Peter Martini, the President of iboss, he outlines the current trends driving the secure web gateway market, and security software in general. He also outlines several approaches taken by traditional secure web gateway providers and explains why they fall short and cannot

What makes Deceptive Bytes unique? Most cyber companies these days are using AI and machine learning, but these systems are complex, require massive amounts of data and are vulnerable even to small changes and errors. Furthermore, attackers are using the same technologies to counteract the

vpnMentor: Please tell us about your personal background and the companies you're involved in. Lets not start in the middle ages, we'll start when I got out of the military and founded a company which ended up being Terrogence in 2004. Terrogence took it upon itself to look for intelligence in the

Please tell us about your background as a company and as an individual. Our company was founded in 2011 by a bunch of tech geeks with a strong IT background. Five years ago the VPN industry wasn't well developed and people weren't too bothered about internet privacy, though it should have been a

Most of us are too busy having fun on social media to recognize the many dangers that lurk there. We have gotten into the habit of sharing everything, which could easily lead to significant information falling into the wrong hands. This is true both for our personal information as well as for

How did WhiteSource come together? WhiteSource was founded by three co-founders who’ve known each other from a previous company which was acquired by a large corporation in 2009. Back then, we were required to provide accounts for all the open-source components we were using in our software. We

Interview with Liz Kintzele at Golden Frog  on VyprVPN and the industry. Tell us about how you started Golden Frog and why it came to be? Golden Frog was founded in response to room 641a, an infamous room in San Francisco where the NSA was conducting surveillance on AT&T’s networks. We

"As the age of the workforce drops, employees expect all work-related functions and corporate information to be available on their phones or other mobile devices.” Perhaps more than anything else, this statement sums up the current state of corporate mobile computing today. However, as Mark Lorion,

While many people have heard of Bitcoins or cryptocurrency, far fewer people are familiar with the underlying technology called “blockchain.” However, blockchain and systems based on them are starting to get more and more attention – and not just for digital currencies. Peter Kirby, the Chief

What's inspired you to write this book? Motivation for writing the book came from the rapidly changing security and privacy environment in the early 2010s and how society grappled with the rise of cyber security threats. In many countries, including Australia, there was a general lack of debate on

What was your vision when founding Quttera? It all started with a team of enthusiasts. We were interested in information security and viruses. It was back in the days (it now sounds like pre-history) when desktop anti-virus solutions were the dominant front for fighting hacker attacks on personal

There is no doubt that user identity, authentication, and authorization is becoming increasingly critical to application development today. Most developers still implement these functions by building them from scratch or using very primitive identity frameworks. Matias Woloski, the CTO &

Let’s be honest – how many of us think about security risks as we race into a coffee shop to check our email or the latest sports scores? Unfortunately, there are a lot of bad guys out there who know the answer to that question. They are waiting to take advantage of the situation and attack our