Peter Prizio Jr, CEO of SnapAttack: $8 Million Raised to Power the Future of Threat Management

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Peter Prizio Jr, CEO of SnapAttack, a threat management platform that's raised $8 Million in funding. SnapAttack is the Enterprise-Grade & MSSP Platform that helps security leaders answer their most pressing question: “Are we protected?” By rolling intel, adversary emulation, detection engineering, threat hunting, and purple teaming into a single, easy-to-use product with a no-code interface, SnapAttack unlocks the potential of your security operations. Prior to SnapAttack, Peter developed complex defense weapons systems and citizen services for Government clients, ultimately finding a home in cybersecurity startups spanning from Third Party Risk and Cyber Threat Intelligence. He is passionate about collaboration and information sharing across organizations, industries, and public sectors as a backbone for proactive security.

We speak about why the scale and sophistication of cybersecurity threats means that constant innovation is an industry essential. By capturing detailed information about cyberattacks and handing it over to the defender, their mission is to help clients hunt for hackers and respond more effectively.

We also speak about Peter’s background as an Electrical Engineer and his fascination with finding out how things work, how SnapAttack spun out from RnD at Booz Allen Hamilton, the challenge of finding the hacker hunters to deal with contemporary security concerns, and why government clients might be hard to crack at first, but the networking rewards make them worth it in the end.

Topics Discussed:

• Peter’s background as an electrical engineer, and his fascination with how things function that eventually led him to the cybersecurity space
• How SnapAttack spun out of the ‘Dark Labs’ RnD at Booz Allen Hamilton, and how they found themselves as an independent entity
• The current state of threat detection and why most companies relying on traditional manual hunting can find themselves stretched to capacity
• Why constant evolution in the scale and sophistication of cyber threats means defenders need to stay at the cutting edge of innovation
• How SnapAttack’s ‘snapshot’ strategy puts critical tools in the hands of defenders to detect and deal with real-world threats
• Why doing business with government agencies can be a real slog to start with, but why the long-term benefits make the effort worth it in the end

 

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