The State of the Cybersecurity Market, At Least According to Gartner – Vivek Ramachandran, Carl Froggett, Padraic O’Reilly – BSW #353

Padraic O’Reilly is Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at CyberSaint, where he leads product innovation and development. His experience as a Harvard-trained economist, risk management consultant, and deep cybersecurity expertise supports his current activity which spans working directly with public and private organizations to assess, measure, remediate, and communicate cyber risk. Working closely with large, highly regulated enterprise teams and CISOs, Padraic is dedicated to driving tangible value through linking cyber risks to control posture, innovating with CRQ models and AI, and enhancing cyber to business communication.

An expert in AI and financial modeling, Padraic works with global enterprises to research and deploy risk quantification, analysis, and communication strategies from board to SEC reporting. Padraic has been featured in publications and broadcasting stations such as CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, the New York Times, and Bloomberg.

Carl Froggett is Deep Instinct’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). He has a track record in building teams, system architectures, and large-scale enterprise software implementations, while aligning processes and tools with business requirements. Froggett was formerly Head of Global Infrastructure Defense, CISO Cyber Security Services at Citi. In this role, Froggett delivered integrated risk reduction capabilities and services aligned to the architectural, business, and CISO priorities across Citi’s devices and networks in 100+ countries. Since 1998, he’s held various regional and global roles, covering all aspects of architecture, engineering, global operations, and running critical enterprise cyber services for Citi’s cybersecurity functions.

Vivek Ramachandran is a security researcher, book author, speaker-trainer, and serial entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in offensive cybersecurity. He is currently the founder of SquareX, building a browser-native security product focused on detecting, mitigating, and threat-hunting web attacks against enterprise users and consumers. Prior to that, he was the founder of Pentester Academy (acquired in 2021), which has trained thousands of customers from government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and enterprises from over 140+ countries. Before that, Vivek’s company built an 802.11ac monitoring product sold exclusively to defense agencies.
Vivek discovered the Caffe Latte attack, broke WEP Cloaking, conceptualized enterprise Wi-Fi Backdoors, and created Chellam (Wi-Fi Firewall), WiMonitor Enterprise (802.11ac monitoring), Chigula (Wi-Fi traffic analysis via SQL), Deceptacon (IoT Honeypots), among others. He is the author of multiple five-star-rated books in offensive cybersecurity, which have sold thousands of copies worldwide and have been translated into multiple languages.
He has been a speaker/trainer at top security conferences such as Blackhat USA, Europe and Abu Dhabi, DEFCON, Nullcon, Brucon, HITB, Hacktivity, and others. Vivek’s work in cybersecurity has been covered in Forbes, TechCrunch, and other popular media outlets.

In a past life, he was one of the programmers of the 802.1x protocol and Port Security in Cisco’s 6500 Catalyst series of switches. He was also one of the winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among a reported 65,000 participants. He has also published multiple research papers in the field of DDoS, ARP Spoofing Detection, and Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection Systems. In 2021, he was awarded an honorary title of Regional Director of Cybersecurity by Microsoft for a period of three years, and in 2024 he joined the BlackHat Arsenal Review Board.