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Santiago Bassett - Wazuh - Growing Cybersecurity Startups in Granada & Silicon Valley - Stanford Engineering - 4 March 2019
Talk by Santiago Bassett, Wazuh (Silicon Valley & Granada), at Stanford Engineering on March 4 2019, Session #7: 'Madrid + Granada : Cybersecurity Startups, Exits, VCs & Spain’s Tech Ecosystem'.
Talk by Santiago Bassett, Wazuh (Silicon Valley & Granada), at Stanford Engineering on March 4 2019, Session #7: 'Madrid + Granada : Cybersecurity Startups, Exits, VCs & Spain’s Tech Ecosystem'.
Santiago Bassett - Wazuh - Growing Cybersecurity Startups in Granada & Silicon Valley - Stanford Engineering - 4 March 2019
1.
Santiago Bassett - Wazuh founder and CEO
Growing Enterprise Cybersecurity
Startups in Granada
Building Granada – Silicon Valley Ecosystem Bridges
European Entrepreneurship @ Stanford Engineering
March 4th 2019
2.
• Cybersecurity engineer for 16 years
• Open source software developer
• OSSEC and AlienVault engineer
• Wazuh founder and CEO
3.
• 60 employees
• Funded in 2015
• Offices in Granada and Campbell
• Open source security software
• Securing millions of servers
• Organic growth and cash flow positive
• Successful startup without venture capital
4.
• ~100 recurrent customers
• Revenue growth +40% YoY
• ~4,000 visits/week to our documentation
• ~5,000 downloads per week
• ~20,000 active enterprise users
5.
• Biotechnology cluster
• Public university with 80,000 students
• School of Information Technology
• School of Telecommunications
• Business and Innovation Center
• Center for technology based startups
6.
• City of southern Spain
• 280,000 city population
• 950,000 province population
• Alhambra palace and fortress
• Seven centuries of Muslim history
• Reconquered by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492
• Same year Europeans discovered America
7.
• Spanish talent at work!
• Granada emerging technological hub
• Providing services worldwide
• Scalable business model
• Open source as go to market
• Our code is our marketing
• Software tested by thousands of users
• Open source community contributions
8.
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• Graduated at Granada University
• Learnt about Wazuh at the university
• Joined the Wazuh team in 2016
• Leads a 15 people development team
• Working for several Fortune 100
• His code runs in millions of servers
• Moving to San Francisco next year