Scaling Cyber

Where cybersecurity founders and leaders from all over the world share their journeys of growth, challenges, and global expansion. scalingcyber.substack.com

Scaling Cyber is a technology podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 18 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  How to Build a Cybersecurity community of 80000 members? The story of Women4Cyber Foundation

  Apr 29, 202644 minS0

  <p>Europe’s cybersecurity talent gap isn’t just a technical problem. It’s a human capital problem — and one that became dramatically more urgent in 2025, when geopolitical shifts quietly pulled the financial rug out from under the continent’s most active cybersecurity community builder.</p><p>Anett Mádi-Nátor, President of the Women for Cyber Foundation and Managing Partner at CyEx.hu, joined Scaling Cyber to discuss what it takes to build and sustain an 80,000-member community across 35 countries — and how the foundation navigated its most challenging strategic pivot to date.</p><p>The Journey: From COVID Startup to European NG...

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  The Channel Is King: How Mateusz Wepa Is Building Cybersecurity Distribution from Scratch in Central Europe

  Apr 22, 202648 minS2

  <p>Most cybersecurity founders obsess over their product. Mateusz Wepa obsesses over something else entirely: the channel.</p><p>And in less than two years, that obsession helped him build IITD’s Polish operation from 5 people to 12, a growing network of dedicated partners, and a reputation for being the most responsive distributor in the market.</p><p>Guest Journey</p><p>Mateusz Wepa came up through the world of technology sales and distribution — from his early days at Dagma, where a senior mentor taught him that every email gets answered within two hours, to managing teams across multiple European countries. That...

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  Episode #6

  SaaS Doesn't Mean Secure. Lukasz Jesis Built Two Companies to Prove It.

  Apr 15, 202638 minS2

  <p>Most companies assume their data is safe because it lives in the cloud. Most engineering teams assume their source code is protected because it’s on GitHub. Most CISOs don’t think about DevOps data until an auditor asks — or until something goes wrong.</p><p>Lukasz Jesis thought about it before most people did. And it led him to build two of the most focused data protection companies coming out of Europe today.</p><p>Founder Journey</p><p>Xopero was founded in 2010 in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland — a mid-sized industrial city far from any traditional tech hub. The ambit...

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  Episode #5

  Building Security Operations That Actually Scale: Lessons from Europe's MDR Trenches

  Apr 8, 202648 minS2

  <p>Most security operations centers collapse under their own complexity. They promise to support every vendor, every SIEM, every workflow. They chase features instead of focusing on what actually matters: operational efficiency.</p><p>Federico Meiners learned this the hard way. After a failed attempt to build a SOC in the United States, he joined Nynox (now ACEN) in Belgium and spent five years discovering what it really takes to build and scale managed detection and response services in Europe’s fragmented market.</p><p>In this episode of Scaling Cyber, Federico (also known as "Fede") shares the operational playbook be...

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  Episode #4

  American Velocity, European Values: How EclecticIQ Is Redefining Threat Intelligence

  Apr 1, 202643 minS2

  <p>For years, the cybersecurity industry has operated on a false premise: that you must choose between speed and values, between aggressive American scaling and thoughtful European principles.</p><p>Cody Barrow, CEO of EclecticIQ, is proving that’s wrong.</p><p>From Intelligence Officer to CEO</p><p>Cody spent over 20 years in intelligence, half of that in the US federal government. He wasn’t just a practitioner; he was a buyer. He purchased, deployed, and ultimately churned through multiple threat intelligence platforms.</p><p>When he joined EclecticIQ six and a half years ago, first as VP of Inte...

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