Founder interview: Benny Czarny, OPSWAT

Founder interview: Benny Czarny, OPSWAT

June 11, 2026 · 30 min · Season 7 · Episode 9

About this episode

Benny Czarny discusses his journey as an entrepreneur in cybersecurity and his new book.

Cybersecurity has its share of innovators, inventors and, of course, entrepreneurs. Benny Czarny created OPSWAT more than 20 years ago, to develop a common language for security applications. Today, the business is best known for its “firewall of data” approach to detecting and removing malware. In the first of an occasional series of interviews with founders, we speak to Czarny about his journey as an entrepreneur and as a business leader in cybersecurity. And we discuss his new book, Cybersecurity Upside Down.

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