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Candan Bolukbas Found the Back Door Was Someone Else’s Front Door
An ethical hacker kept finding the same weakness outside the fortress. He turned that recurring clue into Black Kite - and a career spent making invisible supplier risk legible.
Nathan Sportsman
Nathan Sportsman is the founder and CEO of Praetorian, an Austin-based offensive cybersecurity firm he started in 2010 and bootstrapped for a decade before taking a Series A led by McKinsey in 2020. Beyond running the company, he hosts and produces 'Where Warlocks Stay Up Late,' a long-form interview series documenting the hackers who built the field. He is a contributing author to 'Hacking Exposed,' a U.S. patent holder, and a former adjunct professor at UT Austin.
Rahul Tyagi
Rahul Tyagi is Co-Founder of Safe Security (formerly Lucideus), the Palo Alto-based Autonomous Cyber Risk Management platform that processes over three billion signals daily. A Certified Ethical Hacker who graduated from Lovely Professional University in 2011, he co-founded the company at IIT Bombay in 2012 alongside Saket Modi and Vidit Baxi. He has spent over a decade pioneering cyber risk quantification - using FAIR model frameworks and MITRE ATT&CK integration to give Fortune 500 boards a dollar figure on their digital exposure. Featured in Fortune India's 40-under-40, he discovered vulnerabilities in Intel, Sony, HP, TED, and dozens more before pivoting from pen-testing to platform. His most recent chapter: leading Safe Security's CyberAGI vision after closing a $70M Series C in July 2025.
Saket Modi
Saket Modi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Safe Security (formerly Lucideus), the AI-native cyber risk management platform he started building in his final year of engineering in 2012. Based in Palo Alto, he has grown Safe Security from a bootstrapped IIT Bombay-incubated startup into a 1,300-person company with over $200M in funding — backed by Cisco's legendary John Chambers — protecting the digital infrastructure of Fortune 500 companies worldwide. His audacious goal: build CyberAGI, the definitive autonomous system of intelligence and action for the modern CISO.