Ep 15. The Don of Security Ratings Mafia w/ Aleksandr Yampolskiy
Alexander Yampolsky didn't set out to invent a category—he just didn't want to get fired for someone else's mistake. As CISO at Gilt Groupe, he watched a fraud-prevention vendor hand over a gorgeous SOC 2 report and then discovered unencrypted credit card data belonging to other customers sitting in their systems. That moment became SecurityScorecard, the company that now scans every IP address on the planet multiple times a day and quietly underwrites a huge chunk of the cyber insurance market. In this episode, Alex—known around the industry as the Don of the security ratings mafia—walks…
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