Apr 8, 2022
In this OODAcast, we interview Ron Gula, co-founder and CEO of the
highly successful Tenable Security(NASDAQ:TENB) and currently
President of Gula Tech Adventures. Ron has a long history in the
cybersecurity field that includes starting his career as an NSA
hacker and then transitioning into an entrepreneur responsible for
multiple innovations in the market and several successful
companies. Ron remains a hacker at heart, and currently focuses his
energy on investing in and mentoring emerging companies, improving
public awareness on cybersecurity, and engaging in philanthropic
efforts.
In our conversation with Ron, we explore his career history, the
state of cybersecurity, where we should focus our innovation
investments, and how cybersecurity professionals can help solve not
just global problems, but get engaged in local solutions at
scale.
Ron is President at Gula Tech Adventures which focuses on cyber
technology, cyber policy and recruiting more people to the cyber
workforce. Since 2017, GTA has invested in dozens of cyber
start-ups and funds and supported multiple cyber nonprofits and
projects. Ron started his cybersecurity career as a network
penetration tester for the NSA. At BBN, he developed network
honeypots to lure hackers and he ran US Internetworking’s team of
penetration testers and incident responders. As CTO of Network
Security Wizards, Ron pioneered the art of network security
monitoring and produced the Dragon Intrusion Detection System which
was recognized as a market leader by Gartner in 2001. As CEO and
co-founder of Tenable Network Security, Ron led the company’s rapid
growth and product vision from 2002 through 2016. He helped them
scale to more than 20,000 customers worldwide, raise $300m in
venture capital and achieve revenues in excess of $100m annually.
Ron is President at Gula Tech Adventures which focuses on investing
and advisement of two dozen cyber-security companies. Ron was
honored and humbled to receive the 2017 Betamore BETA award, be
named a 2016 Baltimore Tech 10 leader and a 2013 Maryland
entrepreneur of the year by Ernst and Young.
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