Gupta: Security is the only hindrance holding AI back from 10x scale
“So there's only one hindrance in today's world for AI is security. If there was not a security concern, security would be AI would be 10 X.”
Sam Lessin: The 'move fast' AI crowd will beat security-focused competitors
“I think the as fast as possible crowd will generally win because they'll be able to get more cool stuff done faster, but it will create a huge security. It's a huge problem.”
Sam Lessin: Huge AI premiums will be charged for security and privacy
“I think all the money is not gonna be made on who can run the most tokens fastest or build the coolest shit, because everyone will go infinitely fast on that. You'll be able to charge an enormous premium for security and privacy, but the problem is, is like, t…”
French-Owen: OpenAI takes sandboxing and security more seriously than competitors
“The sandboxing, it's such an interesting question because I think OpenAI actually takes the like sandboxing and security question more seriously than almost anyone else.”
Kurtz: Trump administration takes platform-focused, business-first cybersecurity approach
“When you think about what the administration is doing with security, they're taking a business first approach. You know what that means? They want to save money. They want to consolidate. They want platforms. They want better outcomes. Right. And they don't wa…”
Pennarun: 90% of deploying internal tools is connectivity and security, not building
“And if you're deploying a dashboard, people who have done this at a company, they know that like, 90% of the work is somehow those two things. And then the remaining 10% is actually making the dashboard.”
Pomel: Within five years, security will inevitably attach to observability
“We have a thesis that security, like, five years from now will be will be, or rather, let me rephrase it will be a no-brainer that you have to attach your security to your observability, because that is what gets deployed everywhere in your application, in you…”
Pomel: Cybersecurity software will consolidate into large platforms
“We think that it's too complex. Like, it's impossible for the customers to actually understand how to piece that together, and to integrate everything into a consistent whole that really protects them, and so we think that security is going to go through the s…”
Payne: Security M&A targets are not cheap because startups still hold cash
“It's interesting that the budgets are down to five percent growth, but we haven't seen valuations The valuation expectations for a lot of companies are still pretty high because people raised money during difficult times. I mean, during good times. And so they…”
Taylor: Security machine learning must hyper-focus on outliers instead of discarding them
“There's a tenant of machine learning where like you just throw out the outliers because they're going to mess up your distribution and you kind of don't want to deal with them. For security, what you do is you find the outliers and you hyper focus on them beca…”
Podjarny: Cybersecurity products are inherently closer to revenue than generic developer tools
“My sense was in security, it's not nothing is ever easy, but generally speaking, it's closer to money.”
Armstrong: Fundraising tokens are securities, but decentralized utility tokens are not
“If people want to issue a token that's raising money for a company, let's regulate it as a security. If they want to issue a token that's truly on a decentralized protocol, or has some other purpose like voting in a DAO or rewards or something like that, then …”
Assets not clearly defined as securities default to CFTC commodity oversight
“If you look up the definition of commodity in the Coney Exchange Act, there's pretty much everything. Like if it's not a security, it's a commodity. So it naturally sort of fell to us because it wasn't clearly defined as a security.”
Mónica: Crypto research is making the internet a safer place
“Crypto is ushering a new era of research in distributed systems, in security, and in cryptography. And all of these technology advances are actually making its way towards the internet into a safer internet.”
Weisman: Tokens on fully decentralized networks are likely not securities
“If you have a token that's operating on a fully decentralized network, that's probably clearly not. A security.”
Ehrensvärd: Strong security historically came at the expense of privacy
“Historically, security and privacy has not been a good fit. You know, good security has always come with not so great privacy.”
De La Garza: Security will become a feature rather than a standalone product
“And so I think as business models evolve, as we make this transition to the cloud, as blockchain becomes more widely deployed, security starts to become more of a feature and less of a product. And I think we start thinking less about kind of the specific tech…”
Dixon: Profit-sharing ICO tokens are textbook securities
“If the token gets dividends in proportion to the company's profits, that's almost textbook security, right? And so that's also something that, that should be done in the traditional way.”
Susskind: Quantum teleportation provides security impossible with classical protocols
“It gives you absolute, 100% security that no classical non-quantum mechanical protocol could ever give you. But it can't be done faster.”
Sparks: Reinventing security mechanisms is the worst mistake developers can make
“I think there's a good trend of people just not reinventing the wheel for security. Reinventing the wheel is pretty much the worst thing you can do. I mean, every time we see, you know, a big hack, it's because of somebody did something where they're like, oh,…”
Flomenberg: Google will compete with ad-data startups but unlikely cybersecurity ones
“If you want to use some Google-like or Google-specific dataset for an advertising product, it's a really uncomfortable situation because at any point in time, Google may very well decide to build that same product. Now, for instance, in security, could Google …”
Revenue-Sharing Crypto Tokens Must Be Classified As Securities, Salovaara Warns
“It has to be one of these five, otherwise you would, you can say that, like, you know, you cannot do revenue sharing tokens, because that's security.”