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Snehal Antani and the Trouble With Feeling Secure
He spent two decades learning how large systems fail, then built Horizon3 to make companies attack themselves on purpose. His wager is simple: in cybersecurity, reassurance is cheap and proof has to be renewed.
Aviv Cohen Made Cybersecurity Marketing Funny - Then Helped Make Validation a Category
An engineer learned to sell security without selling fear. At Pentera, Aviv Cohen used category language, cartoons, a children’s book, and one memorably put-upon goat to make continuous security testing easier to remember.
Bari Abdul Has Spent a Career Selling the Invisible
From Pepsi and video games to firewalls and attack surfaces, the engineer-turned-marketer has made a specialty of translating risks people cannot see into choices they can act on.
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.
Alper Memis
H. Alper Memis is the Co-Founder and CEO of Picus Security, the company that pioneered Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) technology. A mathematician-turned-financial-analyst-turned-cybersecurity-CEO, Memis co-founded Picus in 2013 in Ankara, Turkey alongside two university friends — combining a rare background in sovereign debt management, financial risk, and a CFA designation with the mission to replace assumption-based security with continuous, evidence-based defense validation. Under his leadership, Picus has raised $80M in total funding (including a $45M Series C in 2024), serves 500+ enterprise customers including Mastercard, Visa, and Vodafone, and has simulated over one billion cyberattacks.