Every year, DataTribe reviews hundreds of early-stage cybersecurity startup submissions for the DataTribe Challenge. Leo Scott, Managing Director and Chief Innovation Officer, sees the market shift before most people do.
He joins Gianna ahead of the Cyber Innovation Conference October 26th and 27th in Washington, DC, to talk through this year’s five finalists. The submissions are full of AI. Leo finds the companies one level down more interesting, solving what AI is changing about how attacks happen, how humans get tricked, and how agents get out of control. That is where the 2026 class points.
If you want to see them pitch live, the conference is October 26th and 27th in Washington, DC, at cyberinnovationconference.com. Marketing
Every year, DataTribe reviews hundreds of early-stage cybersecurity startup submissions for the DataTribe Challenge. Leo Scott, Managing Director and Chief Innovation Officer, sees the market shift before most people do.
He joins Gianna ahead of the Cyber Innovation Conference October 26th and 27th in Washington, DC, to talk through this year’s five finalists. The submissions are full of AI. Leo finds the companies one level down more interesting, solving what AI is changing about how attacks happen, how humans get tricked, and how agents get out of control. That is where the 2026 class points.
If you want to see them pitch live, the conference is October 26th and 27th in Washington, DC, at cyberinnovationconference.com. Marketing
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The Kremlin is not a fan of Alex Goldfarb. He left the Soviet Union as a scientist, becoming a prominent author and human rights activist. In 2006, he was in the room with ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, reading his dying words, which accused Vladimir Putin of assassination by radioactive polonium. Today, Alex's memoir, Refusenik's Son, traces a complicated family history made clear only decades later. His father, David, was a Jewish scientist denied permission to leave the Soviet Union - one of the so-called "refuseniks." David had been a prominent microbiologist in the 1970s and '80s, when Moscow's secret bioweapons program was under development. But only after an exiled KGB officer contacted Alex in 2010 did the full reason for his father's confinement become clear. It's a winding story involving an anthrax accident and a media leak, a Soviet scientist and a U.S. journalist trying to help him. Two men pulled unknowingly into a tide of suspicion. 
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