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Season 3, Episode 11

March 17th, 2022

This week, Tessian CEO Tim Sadler welcomes Mike Privette who, by day, is the CISO at Passport – a transportation software and payments company that helps cities manage parking and mobility infrastructure. And by night and weekends, Mike is a venture capital advisor, investor and author of the Security, Funded newsletter.

Mike’s in a unique position; he is a CISO and also advises the security companies that create products for security leaders. He explains what’s going to get his attention and provides advice to his peers on how to go about choosing the right cybersecurity vendor and how to get good at the boring parts of cybersecurity. Mike also shares his perspective on why the cybersecurity market is attracting so much investment right now.