Kolide

My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring last week at DF. “If you build a dystopian and cynical security program born out of fear, mistrust, and suspicion, then you will inevitably make your fellow employees your enemies.” That’s a quote from Honest Security, Kolide’s mission statement. It was written by their CEO, Jason Meller, who spent his career in cybersecurity before founding Kolide.

Meller was troubled by the widely accepted idea among cybersecurity professionals that end users should be treated, first and foremost, as threats. This way of thinking informs the traditional approach to device management, which relies on MDMs that take control of devices and come with surveillance capabilities that most companies don’t need or even really want. Kolide works by notifying your employees of security issues via Slack, educating them on why they’re important, and giving them step-by-step instructions to resolve them themselves.

Want to see how it works for yourself? Check out Kolide’s free trial, with no credit card required.

★ Monday, 17 October 2022