Serial Entrepreneurship, Metadata Capture Systems, and Osquery with Tony Gauda

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This episode features an interview with Tony Gauda, Head of Customer Engineering at Fleet Device Management, an open core company powered by Osquery. Tony is a serial entrepreneur and inventor with a profound history in fraud, security, and SaaS business. He holds several issued patents and his companies have raised over $40 million in venture funding. Tony is also the founder of ThinAir, a Y-Combinator backed SaaS service that tackles the insider threat problem for enterprises and government agencies.

In this episode, Sam and Tony discuss calculating data usage at scale, the creativity of attackers, and how to evolve as threats increase.

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“The great thing about Osquery is that since it is a sensor-based system that is queryable, it literally gives you the ability to discover new indicators of compromise and then use those when doing security investigations. And Osquery allows you to create these extremely interesting queries that would find things that you would never be able to find with a traditionally static functionality agent. And, that to me, is extremely exciting. The fact that you have this agent that is extendable and it's configurable and it's deployable across multiple different platforms, at the end of the day, it feels like it's almost a superpower for visibility.” – Tony Gauda

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Episode Timestamps:

(01:17): What Tony is curious about these days

(04:39): What problems Tony is trying to solve

(05:47): How Tony got into the tech world

(11:09): Tony’s inspiration behind ThinAir

(15:25): What open source data means to Tony

(17:06): What led Tony to being an early adopter of Osquery

(20:31): What’s ahead for building next level applications with open and secure data

(25:37): One question Tony’s always wanted to be asked

(29:24): Tony’s advice for inventors

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Links:

LinkedIn - Connect with Tony

Twitter - Follow Tony

Twitter - Follow Fleetdm

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