Blackpoint Cyber is a Denver-based managed detection and response (MDR) company built by former NSA cyber operations experts who decided the best way to defend businesses was to think like the attackers they used to be. Founded in 2014, the company serves managed service providers (MSPs) with a 24/7 security operations center, proprietary threat detection technology, and its unified CompassOne platform - combining endpoint, identity, cloud, and compliance tools into a single dashboard. With $210M in total funding and 23 G2 badges in Spring 2025, Blackpoint has become one of the most recognized MDR providers in the MSP channel, locking compromised Microsoft 365 accounts roughly every 30 minutes.
Vinnie Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Bishop Fox, the largest private professional services firm focused on offensive security testing. Starting his career as an NSA analyst at age 17, Liu co-founded Bishop Fox in 2005 with Francis Brown, bootstrapping it for 13 years out of an Arizona living room before raising $175M in venture funding. Today, Bishop Fox serves 26% of Fortune 100 companies and 8 of the 10 largest global tech firms, combining elite human testers with its proprietary Cosmos platform for continuous attack surface management and AI-augmented penetration testing.
Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former constitutional lawyer who broke the world's most consequential surveillance story - Edward Snowden's NSA revelations - earning a Pulitzer Prize and an Oscar-winning documentary. After co-founding The Intercept and exposing judicial corruption in Brazil, he now runs 'System Update,' an independent nightly show on Rumble, where he delivers unfiltered political commentary captive to no institutional master. He lives in Rio de Janeiro with his two adopted sons and 20+ rescue dogs.