Episode 29: Special—2016 Review and 2017 Predictions
Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
4.7 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2017
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Ben & David wrap up 2016 with a review of the top tech themes we discussed on the show this year, and look forward to which themes we think will be relevant in the coming year. Can our hosts predict the future? Tune-in in 2018 to find out! Note: we apologize for the less-than-amazing audio quality on this one. We’re still working on tuning our remote recording setup!
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Topics covered include:
- Our top tech themes of 2016, including the first annual Acquired "Theme of the Year”: Aggregation Theory (surprise, surprise)
- Themes we think will be most relevant as we head into 2017
- Extended Carve Outs!
The Carve Out(s):
- Books:
- Ben: On Writing Well
- David: The Creative Habit and the Asimov Robot/Empire/Foundation series
- Article:
- Ben: Wait But Why: Religion for the Nonreligious
- David: The New York Times: The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.
- Podcasts:
- Both: The Ezra Klein Show
- Music:
- Ben: Justin Bieber
- David: Stevie Nicks
- TV/Movies:
- Apps:
- Ben: ReachNow
- David: Amazon Music
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right listeners, our sponsor is one of our favorite companies, Vanta, and we have something very new from them to share. |
| 0:07.0 | Of course, you know Vanta enables companies to generate more revenue by getting their compliance certifications. |
| 0:12.8 | That's SAC 2, ISO 2701. |
| 0:15.7 | But the thing that we want to share now |
| 0:17.9 | is Vanta has grown to become the best security compliance |
| 0:21.4 | platform as you hit hyper growth and scale into a larger enterprise. |
| 0:26.9 | It's kind of wild. |
| 0:27.9 | When we first started working with Vanta and met Christina, my gosh, I've had like a couple |
| 0:31.6 | hundred customers, maybe. |
| 0:33.7 | Now they've got 5,000, some of the largest companies out there, it's awesome. |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah, and they offer a tremendous amount of customization now for more complex security needs. So if you're a larger company and in the |
| 0:45.2 | past you showed Vanta to your compliance department you might have heard something like, oh well we've already got a compliance |
| 0:50.4 | process in place and we can't integrate this new thing. |
| 0:53.0 | But now, even if you already have a sock to, |
| 0:56.0 | Vanta makes maintaining your compliance even more efficient and robust. |
| 1:00.0 | They launched vendor risk management. |
| 1:02.0 | This allows your company to quickly understand the they launched vendor risk management. |
| 1:02.6 | This allows your company to quickly understand the security posture of the vendors |
| 1:06.9 | that you're choosing in a standardized way that cuts down on security review times. |
| 1:11.3 | This is great. |
| 1:12.0 | And then on the customization front they now also |
| 1:14.4 | enable custom frameworks built around your controls and policies. Of course that's |
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