Season 12.1 - Reporter's notebook: Orca Security, intro to CNAPP

About this episode

The episode discusses the cybersecurity industry and features an interview with Orca Security's CEO about CNAPP.

The 12th season of Crucial Tech begins today after a month off. But we haven't been napping. The 2026 RSAC Conference consumed my time and I came back with some definition of the cybersecurity industry. Mostly I learned just how bad the industry is explaining itself to its customers. One area I've been meaning to investigate is the Cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPP) sector simply because it is so very basic to stopping security breaches. It is also very crowded by established players and newcomers. In this interview we talk with one of the first companies to enter the space, Orca Security and their CEO Gil Geron about what makes them useful and why few people have heard of them.

People in this episode

Host: Lou Covey

Guest: Gil Geron

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• CNAPP
• Orca Security
• RSAC Conference
• security breaches

Keywords

• cybersecurity
• CNAPP
• Orca Security
• Gil Geron
• security breaches
• RSAC Conference

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Orca Security, Cloud-native application protection platforms

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