Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy is the co-founder and CEO of SecurityScorecard, one of the world's most trusted cybersecurity brands with tens of thousands of customers, including half of the Fortune 100 and nine of the top 10 U.S. banks. Before founding SecurityScorecard in 2014, Alex earned a Ph.D. in cryptography from Yale, built authentication infrastructure for Goldman Sachs and Oracle, and served as CISO at Gilt Groupe, where a near-miss with exposed credit card data became the genesis for an entirely new category of cybersecurity.

In this episode, Alex traces his journey from a 14-year-old immigrant kid whose friend handed him a virus-infected floppy disk with “Prince of Persia” on it, all the way to building a company that now scores the security of every organization on the internet. He breaks down what it takes to create a marke ...