Unicon 2025 Ron Gula Keynote
Unicon 2025 Ron Gula Keynote
What do unicorns, offensive cyber ops, and AI have in common? In this fast-paced and insightful keynote, Ron Gula—former NSA red teamer and co-founder of Tenable—takes the Unicon 2025 virtual 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.
🧠 Key Highlights: Why AI is changing cyber faster than we can react—and what that means for defenders and policy makers How to professionalize cybersecurity like law or medicine—with real career paths and respect The real value of cyber offense: not just breaking things, but learning how to build better defenses Behind-the-scenes insight into investing in companies like Scythe, and why some vendors make it while others miss the mark A sneak peek into the Gula Tech Foundation’s Cyber Ready Clinic—a new nonprofit helping orgs and people level up their cyber skills Why "cyber is not just IT", and what needs to change in how we hire, train, and lead
🎓 Student or early-career pro? Ron shares what skills are actually worth learning in a world of LLMs and cloud-native threats.
💥 Plus: rapid-fire Q&A on whether AI will kill cyber jobs, how compliance intersects with national defense, and why we still leak data from dev S3 buckets. This keynote isn’t just informative—it’s fun, blunt, and packed with insight for cyber practitioners, leaders, and investors alike.
Watch the full conference online at: https://scythe.io/unicon-2025