From Military Service to Becoming a CEO with Vincent Sullivan

Now I want to talk a little bit about kind of the cybersecurity side of things and what our listeners as startup founders might be wanting to think about from a cybersecurity perspective, right? And I know you've said that cybersecurity isn't keeping up.

I know you've said online, you've talked a lot about different cybersecurity things.

I'm curious what you mean by that.

And in general, where are you seeing that businesses are most exposed right now?

Yeah, I think it's really, it's the tool sprawl is one of the biggest areas.

As all these AI companies are sprouting up all over the place and the SaaS tool industry has taken off, they're brought lots of great capability, but they've also been created a lot of risk for us from that standpoint in terms of accounts, linking things, automation.

Those also incur a lot of risks that can happen and exposure for your credentials and things that are out there for hackers and increase their vulnerabilities that exist.

I think one of the big things is a lot of the software that's now being built using AI has a lot of vulnerabilities.

So that's also can be an issue longer term, maybe not initially until they get on the radar of a hacker group.

But later on, it can be they can become a target, you know, as they grow.

Right.

If they take off, then they'll become a target very quickly.

It's a matter of having a good foundation that exists out there.

And the challenge in the space is because of AI and the speed of things that the amount of malware and threats that exist and new vulnerabilities that are increasing exponential rate that are being discovered creates lots of opportunities for them.

And it may not necessarily even be your own system.

It may be through a partner.

It may not be through a place that you just have accounts through that has been compromised.

It could be somebody else where they get this information, like from the dark web.

So there's lots of those issues that kind of build up over time.

So if you look at it, having a good baseline is a key thing.

Just the basic stuff in terms of things.

And I'll say these basic things are just keeping your systems patched.

Logging out of tools that you don't necessarily need or when you're in a browser, maybe not having 500 tabs open.

Although it's

kind of hard because