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The Infrastructure Behind Smarter SOCs with VirtualMetric Founders
Cyber Security District
53 minutes 51 seconds
5 months ago
The Infrastructure Behind Smarter SOCs with VirtualMetric Founders
Title: The Infrastructure Behind Smarter SOCs with VirtualMetric Founders | Cyber Security District Podcast
Episode Description:
In this episode of Cyber Security District, we sit down with the founders of VirtualMetric, one of Europe’s most promising scale-ups in the cybersecurity space. Meet Yusuf Öztürk, CTO and original brain behind the platform, and Jimmy Wind, CEO and commercial strategist who joined the company to accelerate growth and take it global.
VirtualMetric started as a performance monitoring tool but made a smart pivot into cybersecurity, solving one of the biggest pain points for Security Operations Centers (SOCs): the skyrocketing cost and inefficiency of SIEM platforms like Microsoft Sentinel.
In this episode, we dive into:
How VirtualMetric evolved from IT monitoring to cybersecurity
The cost-saving power of their security data pipeline
Why Microsoft and MSSPs are embracing their solution
Lessons in product-market fit, pivoting, and startup resilience
Advice for first-time founders in cybersecurity
Yusuf and Jimmy share practical insights on filtering and enriching telemetry data, how to reduce your SIEM bill by 70–80%, and why smart pre-processing is a must-have for every CISO.
Key Takeaways:
Pre-process your data before it hits your SIEM to save time and money
Automation beats manual parsing every time
Focus on solving real pain points, not changing behavior
Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction01:12 - Meet the founders: Yusuf and Jimmy03:45 - The origins of VirtualMetric07:32 - Agentless monitoring and breakthrough compression11:16 - Pivoting into cybersecurity15:25 - Why current SIEM tools fall short18:50 - Deep integration with Microsoft Sentinel22:40 - How VirtualMetric slashes data ingest costs27:58 - The AI opportunity (and risk) in data pipelines34:02 - Scaling after investment41:21 - Advice for cybersecurity founders47:00 - Final message to global CISOs
Connect with the guests:
Jimmy Wind (CEO): https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmywind/
Yusuf Öztürk (CTO): https://www.linkedin.com/in/yusufozturk87/
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