The Decibel Podcast: Founders Helping Founders · 2024-04-16 · 35 min
Chris Wysopal is the Founder and CTO of Veracode, a $2.5 billion software supply chain security company that pioneered the field of application security and was one of the first companies to embrace software as a service. On today’s episode, Jon Sakoda speaks with Chris on his early fame as a cybersecurity researcher and the highs and lows of building Veracode across three decades: How a Hacking Group Became Celebrities [11:50 - 15:35] - Chris was a member of the famous “L0pht” hacker group who became famous for discovering vulnerabilities in Lotus and Microsoft software. Shining a light on the issue ultimately gave the group widespread media attention and internet fame, drawing much needed attention to security issues in commercial software. Launching a Cloud Product in the Desktop Era [27:55 - 32:50] - In 2006, Veracode was one of the first companies in the security industry to pioneer “software as a service” which is widely used today. Chris relives the journey of convincing customers of the benefit of leveraging the cloud during the era of client / server code repositories.
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