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Bryson Bort Wants Cybersecurity to Rehearse the Fire
The SCYTHE founder’s career runs from Cold War childhood curiosity to Army communications, national-security research and a cheerful campaign to make cyber defense more measurable - unicorn headband included.
Robert M. Lee Is Building Cybersecurity for the Machines That Keep Civilization Running
Before industrial cybersecurity had a common language, Lee was helping invent one. Now the Dragos co-founder is trying to turn hard-won lessons from grids, pipelines and factory floors into a durable system of defense.
Jose Seara
Jose Seara is the founder and CEO of DeNexus, a Boston-based company that quantifies cyber risk for operational technology and industrial control systems. A naval and marine engineer by training, he spent nearly two decades building critical infrastructure and renewable energy companies across Europe and North America before pivoting to cybersecurity. He started DeNexus after discovering, as an energy operator, that he could not measure his own company's cyber risk or insure against it. His DeRISK platform turns technical threat data into financial metrics that boards and insurers can act on.
Ian Schmertzler
Ian Schmertzler is co-CEO and co-founder of Dispel, an operational-technology cybersecurity company he started in 2015 with his brother Ethan. A Yale-trained industrial engineer and former crew coxswain, Ian helped build Dispel's zero trust platform around Moving Target Defense - a system that keeps shifting network access points so attackers never find a static target. He serves as a principal investigator on three NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence projects and as vice president of the National Defense Industrial Association's NY-CT chapter, working to keep factories, water utilities, and power grids running quietly and safely.