You're listening to the CyberWire Network, powered by N2K. Welcome to CyberCEO's Decoded, where we speak with CEOs from established

security giants to up-and-coming disruptors, getting the inside track on what makes

a cybersecurity company tick.

I'm your host, Mark Zadolov, the CEO of Devo.

And today my guest is Patrick Morley,

Cybersecurity Board member, advisor, and former CEO of Carbon Black.

Patrick, welcome to the show.

Hey Mark, great to be here.

Thanks for being here as well.

So Patrick, you were the CEO of Carbon Black

for almost 15 years and saw the company through a lot of changes.

But he didn't start out in cybersecurity and during these discussions I always like to

start with just going way back to your background and how you got into cybersecurity but let's go way back

where did you grow up where are you from? I'm kind of local I outside the I

I consider it the Boston metro area but I actually grew up in New Hampshire,

Southern New Hampshire and in Boston was the big city and I always thought someday

if I was lucky enough I'd end up here and I ended up here and I stayed here my whole career which is actually an accomplishment as well these days.

Amazing and did you grow up from a family of entrepreneurs or academics or what was kind of the family background?

My father was a dentist. In fact, he just retired in his late 70s and my mom worked

in the home worked really hard. I have one sibling and I grew up where I grew up was definitely the country I grew up in Where I grew up was definitely the country. I grew up in a dirt road which

you couldn't use in the spring and next to a cow farm and it was great. It was a great place to be and my my family my father was the first person to go

through to university and then obviously went to extra schooling to become a dentist.

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