Umaimah Khan grew up in San Diego, but now lives in the Bay Area. A fun fact about her - she was home schooled until college, and growing up, loved puzzles and math. She planned to be a math professor until she eventually got into startups and tech. She is a curious person, with many hobbies and interests. In fact, she loves to cook and was a chef at two different Michelin star restaurants. She also likes to garden, growing food and also interesting plants.In the past, UK found herself drawn towards real world problems in real time.What she found herself noticing was that access management was incredibly messy - and that people weren't willing to look behind the curtain to fix the problem. After she noticed that this problem kept surfacing , and decided to solve it.This is the creation story of Opal Security.SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://opal.dev/https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaimah-k-b7466a249/Our Sponsors:* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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We are a security company, first and foremost. From day one, we have to build a lot of trust, and that has to show through in our features.
So we made very specific choices on what we would prioritize from that perspective, such as being able to work in hybrid environments, because we knew that even as a small company, if we wanted to be the backbone of people's access management and least privilege infrastructure, that they needed to feel like they could manage us entirely and work in these complex environments.
Another example of this is like building in our back end, our product itself, which is something that you will often see in like B2C or product-led companies gets left until way too late. I'm Umema Khan, also known as UK, the co-founder and CEO of Opal Security.
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And today, how Ume Makan decided to go out on her own and help organizations reduce access sprawl and enforce better security. This episode is sponsored by KiteWorks. Legacy managed file transfer tools lack proper security, putting sensitive data at risk. With KiteWorks MFT, companies can send automated or ad hoc files in a fully integrated, highly secure manner.
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With Ask ClearQuery, you can find valuable insights into your data using plain English. Don't miss the opportunity to simplify your data analytics with ClearQuery. Get started today at clearquery.io slash code story. Ume Makan, also known as U.K., grew up in San Diego but now lives in the Bay Area.
A fun fact about her, she was homeschooled until college, and growing up, she loved puzzles and math. She planned to be a math professor until she eventually got into startups in tech. She's a curious person with many hobbies and interests. In fact, she loves to cook and was a chef at Michelin star restaurants. She also likes to garden, growing food and also interesting plants.
In the past, UK found herself drawn towards real world problems in real time. What she found herself noticing was that access management was incredibly messy and that people weren't willing to look behind the curtain to fix the problem. After she noticed that this problem kept surfacing, she then decided to solve it. This is the creation story of Opal Security.
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