EP 24 - Gene Yu - Founder and CEO at BlackPanda - If You Have a Computer, You Are a Target

13/05/2022 42 min

Listen "EP 24 - Gene Yu - Founder and CEO at BlackPanda - If You Have a Computer, You Are a Target"

Episode Synopsis

The Wolfcast enjoyed our conversation with Gene Yu, the Founder and CEO of BlackPanda.  BlackPanda's origin story alone is inspiring and the rest of our conversation with Gene was amazing as well.
Some of the topics we covered included:

Getting into the United States Military Academy at West Point and studying Computer Science
Going to war in the Army Special Forces for almost a decade after graduation
His career prior to starting BlackPanda
Being Asia's first cybersecurity InsurTech underwriter
Cybersecurity risk and disintermediation scale well as there are no proximity limitations
Gaming and crypto being one of the highest risk sectors
The importance of data and data analysis
Pricing cyber risk and calculating payouts
Measuring data in real-time
Infinite possibilities lead to infinite risks
Insurance in the metaverse and the future of cybersecurity

Some other titles we considered:

We're Basically Cyber-Firefighting
I See Security Differently
Cybersecurity is NOT an IT Problem, It Is a Security Problem
Security Advice Is Very Subjective
It's a Different Terrain, but the Same Bad Guy
Everybody Is at Risk

The audio on this episode was expertly produced by Isabelle Goh.

More episodes of the podcast The Wolfcast