In this engaging CyberTech Interview, we talk with Jose Seara, the Founder and CEO of DeNexus. As October is “Cybersecurity Awareness Month,” Jose shares his views on the importance of proactive threat detection and risk management in today’s fast-paced digital world. DeNexus is leading a new way in cybersecurity, providing smart solutions that help organizations stay resilient against evolving threats.
Hi Jose, welcome to the CyberTech Top Voice Interview Series. Please tell us a little bit about your journey as an IT and security professional. How did you start at DeNexus?
Jose: Actually, I do not come from a security background. In fact, I was on the other side of the table from where I sit now. As an entrepreneur building physical critical infrastructure companies across Europe and North America, I was exposed to cyber risk, especially in my OT environments, and I grew increasingly concerned about the financial impact of cyber risk: I couldn’t find any solution to measure my company’s cyber risk, ways to identify and measure when investing in cybersecurity was efficient, or any insurance to cost effectively cover it.
Why?
Because they did not exist.
The cybersecurity and the risk industries had not caught up with the proliferation of cyber attacks that cost businesses millions of dollars every year. This led to the creation of DeNexus. I assembled a team of cybersecurity, mathematicians, statisticians, data scientist, AI-ML and software engineering experts to deliver the first end-to-end cyber risk management solution dedicated to the industrial secto