"We are helping our clients simplify their strategies and align them to their actual business objectives so that they have a much easier and more efficient approach to developing not just minimum viable security for whatever their product is, but actually using it as a competitive advantage as they try to earn their customers' trust and then maintain it through a long-term relationship," Yavor says. The missing part that Credible Security targets "is having consistent strategy and outcomes in evaluating and delivering trust on both sides of the equation [end users and service providers]," Yavor says. "Working together has taught us that the thing that makes the difference between an acceptable and a great approach to security within any organization is not technical knowledge or skill sets or backgrounds," says co-founder Josh Yavor. The founding partners — "We haven't really fought over those titles yet," Yavor jokes — had worked together before at Tessian, Cisco, and Duo Security. When Proofpoint acquired Tessian in 2023, Yavor was CISO, Burton was head of trust and compliance, and Waters was senior security manager. Credible Security's founders bring their varied experiences to help growing companies turn trust into a strategic advantage. Prior to holding security leadership roles at Cisco Secure, Duo Security, and Facebook, Yavor was a school teacher and owned an IT consulting business. The team members' varied backgrounds "make it so that when you encounter something that you haven't seen before, everyone is able to actually relate to something that they have, in fact, experienced," Burton says. "All three of us have these layered experiences of both things we've done or built, but then also seeing teams and brands that really showed up in a way that we would want family members to experience," Walters says. Teaching students or learning the classics may not be the typical career path for cybersecurity professionals, but the founders of independent security consultancy Credible Security believe a diversity of backgrounds can be a superpower. "That's actually one of the most exciting differentiators about our company, that all three of us, we haven't just been in the industry, we have been in the roles that we are seeking to help," he says.
This Cyber News was published on www.darkreading.com. Publication date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:30:04 +0000