Co-founder & CEO
Marc Balasescu
Marc is the co-founder and CEO of Intrudify, with 10+ years in enterprise cybersecurity: governance, compliance, and security pre-sales across global pharma, banking, and military programs.
Former founder of Cybergate Security and ex-deputy CISO for a critical-infrastructure operator. He now leads Intrudify's go-to-market, partnerships, and commercial strategy.
6 articles by Marc
- How to Manage Security Without a Dedicated Team In a small company security work is spread across existing roles, and that holds until a task falls between two of them. A named owner and an honest time allocation are what stop an access review from belonging to nobody.
- How Much Does a Penetration Test Cost? Every honest answer to this starts with "it depends", so here is what it depends ON: the five factors that move the number, and the pricing models that hide it.
- The Startup Cybersecurity Checklist That Actually Matters Most startup security checklists have two hundred items and no order, which makes them unusable. This one is ordered by what reduces the most risk per hour spent.
- When Does a Startup Actually Need a Penetration Test? Not at incorporation, and not at Series B. The trigger is not company stage at all, which is why stage-based advice on this question is consistently unhelpful.
- Beyond the Checklist: Building a Security-First Culture in Your Startup All the security software in the world can't protect you from the biggest vulnerability of all: your people. A single click on a phishing email, a reused password, or a moment of carelessness can undo all your hard work.
- A Founder's Guide to Using AI Securely: How to Move Fast Without Breaking Things This isn't about telling you not to use AI - the opportunity cost of ignoring it is far too high. This is a pragmatic guide on how to use AI efficiently and securely, balancing the immense potential with smart, cost-effective risk management.