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CVE 2025
Ron Gula of Gula Tech Adventures explores the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, explaining what CVEs are and why they matter. While recent headlines focus on the ups and downs of MITRE’s CVE funding, Ron shifts the conversation toward the importance of identifying, cataloging, and responding to software vulnerabilities. This video offers insights into how the industry uses CVEs, why they’re foundational to cyber defense, and how we can improve their impact through better tooling, incentives, and professionalization of cybersecurity reporting and response.
Unicon 2025 Ron Gula Keynote
In this fast-paced and insightful keynote, Ron Gula—former NSA red teamer and co-founder of Tenable—takes the Unicon stage to unpack the real state of cybersecurity in 2024 and beyond. Now an investor with Gula Tech Adventures, Ron shares battle-tested lessons from decades in cyber offense, defense, and startup growth.
Newton's Law Of Cyber Offense - Cynfeld #10
In this animated Cynfeld short, Newton, a recently-fired cyber operator from CISA, shares his sarcastic and jaded insights into life in offensive cyber operations at Cyber Command. He riffs on the contrast between the glamorized image of cyber offense and the mundane reality of bureaucracy, legal limitations, and paperwork.
Cyber Warfare: The General's Take
Dive into the digital age's military frontier with Lt. Gen. Charlie Moore and Ron Gula. Discover insights on Cyber Command's strategy and the future of cyber warfare. The video also includes Cynfeld episode #10 "Newton's Law of Cyber Offense".
The 2025 Five Slide Pitch Deck
Learn how to create a compelling five-slide pitch deck for your startup. Discover key strategies and see live pitches. Share your thoughts and ideas!
Is Signal Safe for My Desktop?
Learn how to create a compelling five-slide pitch deck for your startup. Discover key strategies and see live pitches. Share your thoughts and ideas!
Cynfeld Episodes #1 through #9
This is a compilation video of Cynfeld season one including episodes #1 through #9. Cynfeld is a humorous animated cybersecurity Seinfeld parody brought to you by Gula Tech Adventures.
Scamception - Cynfeld #9
Episode #9 of Cynfeld. Erin takes part in a romantic online scam, that turns out to be legit and an effort by Cyber Command to infiltrate a Russian ransomware group.
Pandora's Bot
Join the gods of Mount Olympus as they tackle humanity's data security woes and unveil surprising tech solutions. Discover AI's role in this mythic discussion.
System Hardening
Ron Gula sits down with Henry Zhang, CEO and Co-Founder of SENTEON, to discuss system hardening and configuration management. They explore key security standards, including the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks.
Browser Security
Browser security is a complex topic - and Ron Gula dives in with Conceal CEO, Eric Cornelius, to discuss everything from browser hijacking to managed attribution networks. Eric is the former CTO of Cylance and recently joined Conceal as CEO. Conceal offers a variety of enterprise web security solutions and can be reached at conceal.io.
Art Of The Phish - Cynfeld #8
Colman has a hilarious but frustrating phishing awareness briefing, complete with deep fakes and double meanings!
Investing In Anti-Phishing Startups
Ron Gula discusses the different types of phishing countermeasures and which companies Gula Tech Adventures has invested in that performs those functions. The video also includes the entertaining "The Art Of The Phish" animated video from the Cynfeld universe.
Bring Your Crypto To Cloud Day - Cynfeld #7
In this episode, Colman leverages cryptography to impose costs on an adversary who has been hacking his competitors from Hackistan.
Investing In Encryption
Ron Gula discusses his views on starts up that perform file server encryption and post quantum encryption protection. The video also includes the animated short, "Bring Your Crypto to Work Day".
Pwned by Sophos
4 CISOs discus the ethics of offensive cyber hacking, specifically the Pacific Rim report from Sophos, on a humorous fake podcast.
My Dad Hacks For The CIA
In a humorous classroom Q&A, a CIA hacker explains his job to curious kids, busting myths about hacking, video games, and spy life. From Fortnite to phone tapping, he highlights the serious responsibility of cyber operations and inspires the next generation to consider cybersecurity careers with integrity and skill.
From Linguist to Nation-State Hunter
Join Ron Gula as he interviews Danny Adamitis, a threat hunter from Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, to discuss the intricacies of threat hunting, what it takes to uncover nation-state malware, and how aspiring cybersecurity professionals can prepare for a career in threat hunting. The video kicks off with a comedic animated short, "Pwned by Sophos," parodying a fictional podcast debate on the controversial Sophos Pacific Rim Report. The report reveals how Sophos X-Ops deployed kernel implants to Chinese nation-state threat actors—sparking a lively discussion on ethics, legality, and the potential risks of hacking back.
Cyber Threats and Intelligence
This video includes the animated short, "My Dad Hacks for the CIA" followed by a Ron Gula interview with former Director of the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, Andy Boyd. We discuss working in cyber at the CIA, the future of government cybersecurity and the role of government in the global cyber fight.