Melanie Rieback is an award-winning computer scientist, and co-founder of Radically Open Security, the world’s first non-profit computer security consultancy company. She works with ethical hackers for clients like Google and Wikimedia. She is also a former Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the VU, and worked in research and management roles at Citrix and ING, among others. With her work she won many awards and prizes, including the TIM Award for "Most Innovative IT Leader of the Netherlands" in 2017, and the EU Women Innovators Prize in 2019.

In this episode, we discuss:
- how she manages to give ALL of the profit of her company away, while still thriving
- why antiviruses will not protect your company (or laptop), while open access will
- the crucial importance of security tech-companies collaborating, in the future
- why she decided to give her clients full openness in the workflow, including chatting with her ethical hackers
- what she means by a post-growth movement, and why companies should join, now
- why investing in startups might not be the best idea - while bootstrapping is

More information about Melanie:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrieback/
More information about Radically Open Security
https://www.radicallyopensecurity.com/

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