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Cybersecurity Economist @ ReturnOnSecurity.com
It’s almost that time. Let’s collectively get this bread, family.
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💰 Security, Funded #202 - The Calm Between Storms
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🔍 Dive into the latest cybersecurity insights with "Security, Funded #199 - The Model Weights Are Off."
Discover key trends and analysis for June 16, 2025. Stay informed in a changing world.
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🔄 Uno Reverse Card in Cybersecurity!
Dive into the latest market switcheroo: services get more funding, but products get acquired more. www.returnonsecurity.com/p/security-f...
Fellas, if she
- Changes her name every quarter
- Gets hyped by every analyst
- Speaks in jargon no one understands
- Makes buying tools confusing
That’s not your girl, that’s a new cybersecurity category from Gartner.
Focus on yourself, kings.
💰 Security, Funded #197 - All Eyez on Me(trics)
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
Wow, that new Google Maps update is 🔥🔥
13.02.2025 12:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📊 Just published my deep dive into the 2024 cybersecurity market
The numbers are wild:
- 892 deals
- $60B total value
- 96% growth in AI security funding
- 91% of M&A value in just 10 deals
A lot changed this year, and not in the ways most people think.
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"You won't believe what happens when you press Option + Command + I!"
28.01.2025 13:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Same as it ever was
28.01.2025 07:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just listened to a really nice episode of @cloudsecuritypod.bsky.social with @returnonsecurity.com on the broader trends of cybersecurity startups, markets, and more. Highly recommend it!
23.01.2025 13:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Me monitoring my $1000 angel investment the moment the wire clears (please make money this time 🥹)
17.01.2025 07:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here's the full issue for anyone who missed it:
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💰 Security, Funded issue #176 is live!
Here's what happened in the first few weeks of January 2025:
- Total Funding Raised: $64.3M (-76% YoY)
- Total Deals: 7 across 5 countries
- M&A Transaction: 9 deals
- 100% of funding went to product companies
- No earnings reports from last week to cover
- 3 threat models written during a POC and never updated
- 1 abandoned Jira board from a 'Top Priority' security initiative in 2018
I don't make the rules.
- 4 critical findings in a pentest report marked 'Accepted Risk'
- 1 'URGENT' compliance gap flagged in every internal audit since 2020
- 5 security tools with overlapping functionality but no owner
By age 30 you should have:
- 3 'urgent' phishing simulation reports you've never read
- 2 legacy security tools that only work on Internet Explorer
- 1 SIEM alert titled 'High Priority' that’s fired every hour since 2021
Hackers claim to have compromised Gravy Analytics, exposing millions of smartphone location records—including data sold to U.S. government agencies.
This could be the first major breach of a location data broker. Here’s what you need to know 👇
If you’re a guy in your early 20s, learn the Cyber Kill Chain.
Go into debt if you have to
Compound interest applies beyond finance.
Every:
- Newsletter issue
- Data point shared
- Community interaction
- Industry connection
Compounds over time.
Small, consistent actions create exponential opportunities.
13,000+ subscribers later, building something enduring takes:
- Consistent effort
- Relentless focus
- Authentic voice
- Community trust
The biggest lesson? The gap between expectations and reality is where all the good stuff happens.
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💼💸 Deals to close? Funds to raise? Investors to woo?
This playlist will keep your grind secure, your vibes encrypted, and your valuations higher than a firewall in the cloud this holiday season. 🫡
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Explaining your threat modeling process to the auditors
19.12.2024 14:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stop scrolling and listen to me very carefully:
You need to buy land here asap.
What if the cybersecurity market consolidations were the true friends we made along the way? 🥹
13.12.2024 11:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Security Startup Founder: How can I describe our product in a way that stands out to customers? The cybersecurity market is already saturated.
Industry Analyst: I got you dog, say no more #ztcnxadador
ethernet? you mean the wifi cable
09.12.2024 17:01 — 👍 950 🔁 142 💬 37 📌 18Thanks for sharing this, TJ!
Agree with you on the leadership gaps, and that was interesting for me to see as well.
I would also agree on the population bias being more on the leadership end of the spectrum as well, but even still it's interesting to see the perspective from that view.
New Threat Vector Unlocked
1. Find the Crunchbase page of a cybersecurity company that just raised VC funding
2. Change the page details (which anyone with a Crunchbase account can do) to a personal CashApp page
3. ????
4. Profit! (?)
