Tribe of Hackers

3Andrew Bagrin

“The breaches are not a result of higher spending; the higher spending is a result of the breaches. It goes to show that the world is far from ready to handle breaches and most organizations are very likely underspending— increasing their risk in order to reduce cost.”

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Andrew Bagrin is the founder and chief executive officer of OmniNet, a leading provider of firewall as a service (FWaaS) for small businesses. With more than 20 years of experience in the IT security industry, Andrew started OmniNet in 2013 to bring cloud-based, enterprise-level security technology to small businesses at an affordable price. Prior to founding OmniNet, Andrew served as the director of service provider business development at Fortinet, a network security provider. A network security expert, Andrew has been quoted in a variety of media outlets, including the New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Small Business Computing, Columbia Business Law Review, and Business Solutions Magazine.

If there is one myth that you could debunk in cybersecurity, what would it be?

Focusing on the small and midsize business (SMB) arena for the last five years, my answer is geared toward that world. I often see and hear that people in the IT world believe that “we are secure because we use Product X.” In a way, the CySec blue-team vendors are ...