guardsix’s Human-Centric Security Approach

Hey everyone, we're back here live with our coverage. It's "Techstrong TV" here at RSAC. I want to introduce you to our next guest.

I met this young lady yesterday at our AI Native Dev webinar. ' I learn from it. I use it.

" And she started telling me a little bit about herself, a little bit about her company, a little bit about some conferences they do, and I want to share it with you. I think it's a great story. And I'm probably going to mispronounce her name, but I'll do the best we can.

Her name is Altunay? Ayşe. Ayşe.

Altunay. Altunay. Correct.

I was putting them together. Ayşe Altunay. Ayşe works with a company called Guard6.

Guard6. And, well, you're based out of Germany now, yes? Correct.

But though you're Turkish, from Turkey. Correct. And we're going to come back to the Turkish angle in a second.

Sure. But let's talk about Guard6. Yeah.

Ayşe, what do they do? So Guard6, formerly LogPoint, we've just changed the brand name and the entire brand identity, is the best ally of yourself in cybersecurity. Okay.

That's how we should start. Okay. And as the product lineage, we have SIEM and NDR in-house, and- Okay ...

we are vendor-agnostic with EDR, so this entire triology- Yeah ... of the visibility and telemetry data in cybersecurity. We believe that lean SecOps practices are very important, especially in the hype of AI.

So to speak, not using every appliances that are coming with some kind of AI title, but- Yes ... being very focused on what matters the most and what data that we should be highlighting in the network that our products are looking at. So these are very important things.

And speaking of less complexity, this lays in the very philosophy of our product, our development, because we are so much customer focused, customer centric, and that matters to us what actually the customer wants to see in their SIEM and NDR tooling, rather than that we want to use all the AI tools out there. So this is our stance. Excellent.

Before we go further, the website? The website? The website for the company, for Guard6.

com. com. So Ayşe, here's the thing.

We hear here in the US that- Yeah ... in Europe, in EU, they're taking a better stance or a firmer stance around identity, around security, around compliance. And AI is everywhere, though, because AI doesn't know any borders.

They don't care whether you're in Europe or America or Asia or Africa, whatever. AI is all over. What are you seeing in Europe, perhaps, that's different than what we see here in the US- Uh-huh ...

around AI and securing AI and this whole idea around SecOps and everything you're doing? Mm-hmm. I would say it's digital sovereignty, but from the perspective of not only where your data resides, it's also how your decisions are made.

Right. So digital sovereignty in the hype of AI, especially in the region Europe, it's definitely more than where the data residing, where the data is stored, and under what legislation rules. It's about how the decisions are made.

So as Europeans, we are not letting the AI to decide for us. We are focused on reducing the noise and having the simplicity in our operations, not that letting the AI to decide and get the control out of us. So it is still human in the loop, so to speak.

That giving the AI the not role-based task, but mostly making AI to focus on the task, such as log enrichment, data prioritization, and triaging, but not letting AI to decide on it. And also the regulations, obviously very important in EU base, EU concepts, so to speak. We are very much focused on how we are scaling AI in our organizations and for our customers.

I love it. You mentioned yesterday that your company's been putting on some events in Berlin over the last few years. Tell us about that.

Yeah. So that's actually not the company I work for- Oh ... but that's a collective I'm a member of.

Ah. Very cool. Yeah.

Tell us about it. So that's a collective from Berlin. It's called Tech Open Air.

So we have been doing this conference for some time, and I personally joined the collective in 2024. And we are technology lovers. We research about the new frontier technology.

And obviously, not very surprisingly, our main theme in 2024 was about AI. Right. Yeah.

What else are you going to talk about? Yeah. We had very fantastic keynotes from the people by OpenAI, by Salesforce.

These were very fantastic crowd. It brought us a lot of perspective. It brought us a lot of community feeling.

Mm-hmm. As in today in RSA. And in 2026, this collective is bringing the discussion to Istanbul.

Wonderful. Yeah. The pearl of Eurasia.

Yeah. So, and- The crossroads. Absolutely.

The bridge. Yeah. And in this time that we want to see this city as the bridge of the technology from Asia, from Europe, from US.

Mm-hmm. And bringing all these different notions about AI into one place, which is the bridge of it. Okay.

So that's kind of the idea behind. And with that collective identity of the conference, that we want to bring so many different networks, and if that would be the practice, it'll be great to have Techstrong as well in the Tech Open Air Istanbul. Oh, we're going to try.

We'll try our best. Is there a website that people can get information about that? Yeah, absolutely.

com. Right. And when that's the case, then they can always- Well, that's the event itself, but just finding out about the organization is still there.

Yeah. Absolutely. com.

And also, yeah, my employer, Guard6, which is also where they can get to know about the European alternative of the hyperscaler world of cybersecurity. I love it. Is this your first RSA?

Yes, it is. Give us some impressions of that. Well, I learned so many new things, and to me, that was the most precious aim that I came here, fly 15 hours.

Uh-huh. It's a long flight. Yes, it is.

It is indeed a long flight. Yes. But it is worth of every second of the flight because, well, the conference has just started yesterday, so the content started to flow- Yeah ...

just yesterday, but the Techstrong seminar was amazing. Thank you. I got to know a lot about, especially on the AI-infused DevOps.

Mm-hmm. So that was a great talk titles. Yes.

And also, I got to know, of course, multiple different new frontier technology and open source, such as OWASP. Yes. That was something new to me, even though they've been- Really?

around for some time. Oh, I'm surprised. I didn't realize.

Yeah. Yeah, no, OWASP is huge. So, it was great to get to know new people, to get to know the new content, and yeah, that's fantastic.

Today, I'm so much looking forward for some keynotes, and like wise tomorrow, there's going to be so many seminars. Yes. So that's fantastic.

I'm very happy. I hope you enjoy. Really, it's just really getting started today.

So every year, the Monday gets a little more busier. Yeah. But traditionally, the show started Tuesday.

So I think you're really going to like what you see. And have you been to the show floor yet? Yes, I was.

What'd you think about that? Well, it's very colorful. Overwhelming?

A little bit of... Yes, there a lot of information. That's what I can say.

So it's quite hyperbolic, but it's the melting pot, so that's the point that I like about it. Yes, it is. And it's also very nice to hear the guardrails of the AI technology and AI-based technologies in cybersecurity.

Everyone has a different kind of development. I'm getting to know a lot of different thought schools. I'm getting to know a lot of research, so that's great.

There's lots of information that one can collect and bring to home. I got one more thing for you. Sure.

And this is not for the... I'm going to tell you. 4:00 today, right across the street here at The Metreon AMC Theater- Okay ...

is a film five years in the making- Okay ... about women in cybersecurity. Okay.

And it's world premiere here. It's open to all RSA folks. I'd love for you to go see it.

I think, you know what? You're a young woman up and coming in this space, and it talks to you. That's actually great that you touched upon it, and I just want to have one addition about that subject, which is that, your channel, your platform is great, and I've been actually getting myself ready for so many interviews thanks to you- Really?

Oh ... just by watching your content. Really?

Thank you. But then, yesterday, when I was approaching you and asking if I can get an interview, that was just that notion in my mind. No one was born as a CEO.

No. No one was born as a CISO. No one was born this fancy, shiny, career-focused person.

There's always a path. There's always so much that people are giving on there, and there's nothing to shy. No.

Good for you. That's why I'm not shying away. No, you certainly aren't.

But go see that movie. I will. I think it's perfect for you.

I will. Thank you. Hey, we got to take a break.

Thank you for coming on. Now you should enjoy the rest of the week. Thank you.

Don't run home. You got three more days, or it's two and a half more days. We're going to take a break.

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