Inside the Network
Episodes
Christina Cacioppo: From Y Combinator to redefining trust in cybersecurity with Vanta
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Inside the Network, we sit down with Christina Cacioppo, Co-Founder and CEO of Vanta, the company that defined what is now known as...
Sanjay Beri: Playing the long game and building Netskope into a public cybersecurity powerhouse
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Inside the Network, we sit down with Sanjay Beri, Founder and CEO of Netskope, a company that sits at the intersection of AI, data ...
Dino Boukouris & Sam Bronstein: How AI, identity, and cloud security defined 2025 and what 2026 holds for founders
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this special year-end episode of Inside the Network, we’re joined by two of the most trusted strategic advisors in cybersecurity - Dino Boukouris...
Dean Sysman: Betting on a boring problem and scaling Axonius past $100M ARR
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Inside the Network, we sit down with Dean Sysman, co-founder and CEO of Axonius, one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies...
Tomer Weingarten: From cyber outsider to building SentinelOne into a $1B ARR category leader
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Inside the Network, we sit down with Tomer Weingarten, Co-Founder and CEO of SentinelOne, one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity ...
Sumit Dhawan: Leading Proofpoint’s AI evolution and building toward $5B in ARR
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Inside the Network, we sit down with Sumit Dhawan, CEO of Proofpoint, one of the largest private cybersecurity companies in the wor...
Jay Chaudhry: Betting on yourself and building a $40B+ Zero Trust giant in Zscaler
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Inside the Network, we sit down with Jay Chaudhry, founder and CEO of Zscaler, one of the most valuable cybersecurity companies in ...
Michelle Zatlyn: Scaling Cloudflare to a $70B giant and building a better Internet
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Inside the Network, we sit down with Michelle Zatlyn, Co-founder and President of Cloudflare, one of the most iconic Internet infra...
Joe Levy: Scaling Sophos to $1B+ revenue and defending the 350M overlooked businesses
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Inside the Network, we sit down with Joe Levy, CEO of Sophos, a 40-year-old cybersecurity company that has quietly become one of th...
Andy Cao and Hugh Thompson: Inside RSAC 2025’s biggest moments and boldest ideas
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this RSAC special episode of Inside the Network, we sit down not with one, but two remarkable guests from the center of the cybersecurity world.Fir...
Dug Song: Values over valuation—reflections on building Duo Security and leading with purpose
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Inside the Network, we sit down with Dug Song, the legendary co-founder and former CEO of Duo Security. Dug's journey is nothing sh...
Jeetu Patel: Cisco’s AI-powered cybersecurity future
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Inside the Network, we sit down with Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer. Jeetu previously le...
Shlomo Kramer: A playbook for building three multi billion-dollar cybersecurity companies - Cato Networks, Check Point, and Imperva
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shlomo Kramer, CEO and co-founder of Cato Networks is a rare bird in the cybersecurity industry, having built three unicorns in his career. For many i...
Hamza Fodderwala: The future of cybersecurity — 2024 retrospective, 2025 predictions and what founders need to know
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this holiday episode special, we’re joined by Hamza Fodderwala, Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, where he leads cybersecurity equity coverag...
Kumar Saurabh: Building Sumo Logic, LogicHub, and AirMDR and why immigrants make great entrepreneurs
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Kumar Saurabh, CEO and co-founder of AirMDR, which provides a new approach to managed detection and response with an...
Rick Snyder: How a Founder, VC and Governor is building a safer digital future
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special election episode, we sit down with Gov. Rick Snyder, an entrepreneur, a former VC, and a leader whose career is unique in depth and br...
Slavik Markovich: Building Descope & Demisto—brewing coffee and connections in the US-Israel tech scene
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Slavik Markovich, CEO and co-founder of Descope, a low-code/no-code Customer Identity Access Management (CIAM) platf...
Doug Merritt: Creating a decacorn in Splunk and identifying trends
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we have a special guest - Doug Merritt - who has shaped not a unicorn but a decacorn - a company valued at more than $10 billion. As t...
Jon Gelsey: Building Auth0, the only PLG company in cybersecurity to achieve a multi-billion dollar exit
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest in this episode is Jon Gelsey. Jon was the first CEO of Auth0, a leading identity-as-a-service platform, which grew from 5 to 300 employees ...
Marty Roesch: Scaling Sourcefire and creating a new way to monetize open source security software
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Marty Roesch, founder of Sourcefire. Sourcefire led the intrusion detection and protection (IDS/IPS) wave, raised fo...
Ron Gula: Bootstrapping Tenable to $100M revenue and becoming an influencer
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Few cybersecurity companies have been able to bootstrap their way to success – Tenable stands above the rest in this category. The company raised it...
Dmitri Alperovitch: Building CrowdStrike and defending against nation states
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are plenty of great startups solving impactful problems in security. Very few, however, ever grow to achieve the scale of CrowdStrike - a compan...