Founder Call With Michelle Zatlyn: Security, Cybercrime, and the Inevitable Hacks

Founder Calls

In a landscape where international hacks, cybercrime, and bad actors infiltrate company data — security has never been more important to enterprises. As a result, we are excited to have Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder of CloudFlare, joining us on Founder Calls to discuss how enterprise startups should think about building security in their applications. Prior to CloudFlare, Michelle worked at Google and Toshiba, launched two successful startups, and got her MBA from Harvard Business School. She went on to co-found CloudFlare with classmates and turn it into one of the leading companies in enterprise security. CloudFlare helps websites see a significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and attacks by blocking threats and limiting abusive bots that waste bandwidth and server resources. In this episode of Founder Calls, Michelle and Box CEO and co-founder, Aaron Levie, discuss the how CloudFlare was first started, why startups need to be thinking about building security into their applications from Day 1, and what might happen if security threats lead to the balkanization of the Internet. Questions answered in this episode: If you are selling to the GE’s of the world, how should you think about building security into your application? Does every software company have to become a security company? How should Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) think about the effect of distributed software on security? How should CISOs be measured in a a world where hacks and data loss are inevitable? What should the US government be doing with industry around security? How should startups balance speed and innovation against a need for secure systems? Tune in to hear what Michelle has to share!