Sub-Venture Scale Security Problems

Thank you to Kane for coming up with the main thesis and as primary author of this piece. Check out his blog for a lot more great security writing. There's been some recent discussion about the niche problems in cyber security we all seem to have. The venture capital model is focused on large addressable markets to get big wins, and these problems just don’t qualify for investment. This leads to security engineers fixing the same undifferentiated problems internally every time they join a new company because there is no “buy” alternative. Many other domains have a healthy set of smaller tools on the market, often built by small companies, solopreneurs, and side hustlers. If you look at professions like marketing or sales, you'll find a veritable ecosystem of SaaS apps, chrome extensions, excel connectors, and more. The world of micro SaaS is growing and today there is even an ecosystem of accelerators to get micro SaaS companies off the ground and acquirers to sell them to. Yet you’ll

Sub-Venture Scale Security Problems 0 tl;dr sec Posts Sub-Venture Scale Security Problems Sub-Venture Scale Security Problems Rami McCarthy & Kane Narraway June 12, 2024 Thank you to Kane for coming up with the main thesis and as primary author of this piece. Check out his blog for a lot more great security writing. There's been some recent discussion about the niche problems in cyber security we all seem to have. The venture capital model is focused on large addressable markets to get big wins, and these problems just don’t qualify for investment. This leads to security engineers fixing the s

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