Building Future of AI-Native Cyber Defense w/ Sasan Padidar
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About this episode
Sasan is a veteran product builder with over 20 years of cybersecurity experience. In this episode, Sasan shares his journey from creating an early container security startup, navigating an acquisition by Tenable, and eventually building CrowdStrike's cloud security module into a $100M ARR business. We explore the early misconceptions surrounding Docker security, the architectural hurdles of moving legacy on-prem software to the cloud, and a harrowing tale of a $100K crypto-mining AWS bill. Sasan also details his recent pivot to the world of AI, explaining why human hype is often worse than AI hallucinations, how AI is fundamentally changing the speed of cyber attacks, and why defenders must rebuild their architectures to survive the next generation of threats.