There’s one rule, however, that applies to all startups across the board: That’s how I think the approach to security should be broken down too.” How you think about your company at 30 is so different from 100 or 300. “As I look back, I really feel like that’s true from what I’ve experienced. “Basically, he said whenever a company triples, from 3 to 10 or from 30 to 100, the entire tenor of the company changes,” Engberg explains. It’s a concept he got from Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten. To right-size security strategy, Engberg refers to the rule of tripling. A tiny startup has much different needs than a company like Square or Dropbox. With this in mind, he gave an exclusive talk at the recent First Round CTO Summit about security and the right way for growing startups to stay safe without needlessly expending valuable resources. After observing his fair share of incidents, and experiencing one firsthand earlier this year, Engberg wondered why there wasn’t a comprehensive guide for how startups should approach security at every stage - starting at the earliest. Yet many companies don’t start thinking about building defenses until it’s way too late. If anyone in Silicon Valley knows the value of secure access and keeping information safe, it’s him.Įspecially now, with publications like TechCrunch reporting breaches and attacks as soon as they happen, these types of events can crush a startup’s potential, especially if they are mishandled. Before he took the CTO spot at Evernote, he designed and developed credential validation systems for the U.S.
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