Fall Cybersecurity Bootcamp for Founders & Investors
4.6 (24)
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Expand your cybersecurity knowledge through a program that has successfully taught over 160+ leading cybersecurity investors and leaders!
Fall Cybersecurity Bootcamp for Founders & Investors
4.6 (24)
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Expand your cybersecurity knowledge through a program that has successfully taught over 160+ leading cybersecurity investors and leaders!
Past Clients & Cohort Participants
Course overview
Become A Well Rounded Cybersecurity Expert & Investor
How This Bootcamp Helps - It delves deep into frameworks for simplifying the complex world of cybersecurity.
1) In-depth cybersecurity Insights: Gain a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape through detailed case studies from Palo Alto Networks, Datadog, and Crowdstrike.
2) Simplification of complex terminologies: You receive a simplified package of key cybersecurity terminologies and a summary that makes sense of 4000 companies.
3) Centralized resource: You get a centralized package of all the important cybersecurity categories and market industries.
4) Product differentiation: You get product and feature comparison of cybersecurity companies that helps distinguish between
5) Becoming a well-rounded technologist: This program will allow you analyze cybersecurity technologies to become better at your jobs and make better investment decisions.
This bootcamp is meticulously designed for investors and operators eager to dissect cybersecurity technologies.
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Who Is This BootCamp For?
01
Public & Private Investors -
Across retail investors, VCs & Funds who want an easy framework to grasp the complex cybersecurity landscape.
02
Cybersecurity professionals -
Individuals who want to broaden and get a better understanding of newer categories of cybersecurity.
03
Product Managers
For PM's building products in specific categories of cybersecurity and want to expand their cybersecurity knowledge base
04
Founders -
Those brainstorming new categories of cybersecurity who want to understand deep industry problems within specific markets.
Outcomes from this bootcamp
Expand your technical and industry knowledge of cybersecurity technologies!
- Analyze all the financial and technical lingo in an earnings call like a professional.
Become better at understanding the different markets and categories of cybersecurity!
- You’ll become better at comparing and dissecting the differences in public cybersecurity companies.
- Understand what differentiates Crowdstrike vs. SentinelOne or Palo Alto Networks vs. Fortinet.
- Be able to speak articulately on key software metrics to drive strategic decision
Establish your own framework for understanding the cybersecurity industry, its technologies, and terminologies!
- Become better at understanding the complex cybersecurity industry and its core technologies.
- In-depth understanding of endpoint, network, cloud, AI, data and identity security.
- Be able to identify and distinguish the key differences amongst the technologies.
Networking opportunities with other top-level operators and investors access
- Network with other software investors and operators who are passionate about learning the same topic within your domain of interest.
- Join our long-term Slack community with other operators and investors from venture capital firms, and large tech companies
This course includes
22 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
5 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
Projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Fall Cybersecurity Bootcamp for Founders & Investors
Course syllabus
Week 1
Oct
8
Introduction, Welcome Session & Networking
Oct
10
CORE: Cloud & Application Security Industry
Oct
11
Demo/Guest Speaker with Cloud & AppSec Security Leaders (Wiz)
Oct
11
Demo/Speaker on Cloud & AppSec: Guest Session with Snyk CPO, Manoj Nair
Oct
12
CORE: Intro To Security Operation Centers (SOC), SIEM, & Endpoint Security
Week 2
Oct
14
SOC: Demo With Cribl & Discussion with Ex Gartner Leader
Oct
15
CORE: Cont'd On SOC & Intro To Cybersecurity Services, MSSP, & Partners
Oct
16
Demo/Speaker: State of the SOC & SIEMs w/ Google's CISO Leader
Oct
17
CORE: Data Security, AI Security, Email & Niche Cyber Solutions
Oct
18
CORE: Network Security, Firewalls, SASE & Zero-Trust
Oct
19
CORE: Identity Access Management (IAM) & Governance Security
Week 3
Oct
21
CISO Q&A Session (4x CISO of Fortune 500 Companies)
Oct
21
Security Architecture: How CISOs Buy Security Tools vs. Platforms (ft Evgeniy)
Oct
22
Identity Secuity, ITDR & NHI Security Session
Oct
22
CISO Session w/ Albert Evans
Oct
23
SentinelOne Product Demo (CNAPP + EDR Module)
Oct
23
Analyzing Best of Breed vs. Cyber Platform Solutions
Oct
24
CISO Leadership Q&A Session w/ Heather Hinton
Oct
24
CISO Q&A W/ Coleen Coolidge
Oct
25
CISO Q&A Session w/ Alfonso Yi
Oct
25
CISO Leadership Q&A Session with Jason Clark
Week 4
Oct
28
Final Wrap-up session
Post-course
Introductions & Welcome Session
Cloud & Application Security
The Modern SOC, SIEMs & Automation Platforms
Endpoint Security (EDR, XDR)
Identity Access Management (IAM) & Governance Security
Network Security, Firewalls, SASE & Zero-Trust
Cybersecurity Services, MSSP, MDR & Channel Partners
Best of Breed Solutions: Email, DSPM & AI Security
Platform Consolidation vs. Best of Breed Security
Bonus
Bootcamp Project
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What students are saying
Meet your instructor
Francis Odum
Cybersecurity Researcher, Writer & Analyst
Francis is a renowned cybersecurity researcher, independent analyst and thought leader who advises some of the world's largest venture capital firms and security leaders.
Francis from transitioned from conducting cyber research at a venture capital in San Francisco to becoming an independent cybersecurity researcher with an audience of over 60,000 followers.
His work is read by 500,000 security professionals and his research has generated over a million impressions globally. He advises venture capitalists, buyside and late- stage private's investors.
Once every few months, he compiles his research from speaking to CISOs, security leaders and operators into a bootcamp.
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Fall Cybersecurity Bootcamp for Founders & Investors
EXTENDED - Course Schedule
6-7 hours per week
October 2024
Session Syllabus
- Frameworks for the Cybersecurity Industry
- Cloud security overview
- Endpoint security overview
- Identity security overview
- Network security overview
- Key Companies: Crowdstrike, Palo Alto Networks.
Monday, Weds & Fridays
- Ample Q&A sessions
- Every session is recorded
- Live replays available immediately after a class.
Weekly Projects
2 hours per week
Schedule items can also be used to convey commitments outside of specific time slots (like weekly projects or daily office hours).
Special Guest Speaker Sessions
- Engage with Software-focused buy-side guest speakers (VCs, PEs and Hedge funds)
- Opportunity to ask questions from a leading CISO executive.
- Technical cybersecurity expert calls and interviews during bootcamp
Exclusive Deep Dives & Reports
Resources
- Exclusive deep dives and reports on the cybersecurity industry
- Exclusive reports on cloud, endpoint, Identity, and network security.
Community Access
Ongoing special events & resources
- Opportunity to join our community of SaaS Investors, Venture capitalists and operators
- Network with fellow-minded individuals within the industry.
- Access to our quarterly events with experts within the security and software investing ecosystem
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