Grand Cyber Questions and How They Impact Cyber Start-ups

Presented on March 29, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Room 1116.Ron Gula started his cybersecurity career as a network penetration tester for the NSA. At BBN, he developed network honeypots to lure hackers and he ran US Internetworking's team of penetration testers and incident responders. As CTO of Network Security Wizards, Ron pioneered the art of network security monitoring and produced the Dragon Intrusion Detection System which was recognized as a market leader by Gartner in 2001. As CEO and co-founder of Tenable Network Security, Ron led the company's rapid growth and product vision from 2002 through 2016. He helped them scale to more than 20,000 customers worldwide, raise $300m in venture capital and achieve revenues in excess of $100m annually which enabled an IPO in 2018. Ron is President at Gula Tech Adventures which focuses on investing and advisement of next-generation cyber-security start-ups companies.Runtime: 60:12 minutesRon will discuss some of the harder questions in cyber we've not come to terms with such as quantifying cyber risk and the government's responsibility for keeping us "cyber safe" and how these grand cyber issues impact cyber start-ups