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Recession Readiness: Reviewing the Viability of Four Types of Cybersecurity Technology
The Recession Reaper: Reviewing the Viability of Four Types of Cybersecurity Technology By: Justin Fimlaid There’s been a ton of chatter in the cybersecurity industry about a looming economic recession. When we hear the word recession, our first reaction tends to be...
Everybody Loves You Until You Ask Them to Stroke a Check
Identifying your addressable market and rationalizing your expectations on pricing and penetration are critical to creating financial plans that support investor expectation and your own use of capital. In this episode, Justin and Jack are talking about some...
Pitching Bets for the Future
Following the release of the Q2 2022 Information Security Report from Pitchbook, Justin and Jack take a dive into the dramatically cooling market of cybersecurity deals. Is this a correction back to normal from 2020? Is this a new lack of confidence in the...
Building a Business means Burning the Boats
Justin and Jack have a new question in the mailbag, and it’s a big one: When does an idea or a project actually become a company? The commitment of starting a company requires a lot more than just hours, it requires hard work, sacrifices, and taking personal risks to...
Baiting the Start-up Trap with Perfection
In cybersecurity, no organization, CISO, or vendor, would describe their approach to security as “perfect”, but that doesn’t stop founders from over-thinking and over-polishing their offers prior to sharing them with the world. In this episode of Cyber Engine, Justin...
The Engine and the Attorney
In this episode, Justin and Jack are talking with John Egan, longtime award-winning and nationally-recognized legal advisor to start-ups and acquirers, in the rickhouse of his Vermont-based distillery, Mad Rivers Distillers. John covers recommendations for early-stage...
Minding the Gaps – Part 5 of Catching the Tire
In the fifth and final episode of Cyber Engine's "Catch the Tire" series, Justin and Jack discuss how to analyze the gaps in a management team and how to navigate filling in those gaps as the company grows. Given their long histories as founders and executives, there...
Systemization and Cybersecurity Success
It’s time for the fourth episode in Cyber Engine’s “Catch the Tire” series, and this week Justin and Jack are talking about an area that isn’t part of most companies' early planning, but an effort that will ensure consistent performance and decrease the likelihood of...
Determining your Cybersecurity Product Market Fit
How to figure out what cybersecurity product to build for clients that might not know what they need? A recurring challenge for cybersecurity practitioners is the frustration of understanding the security problem while not necessarily having a consistent or direct...