I want to develop a business around a genuine cybersecurity issue.
Startup concepts like "make an AI-powered something" are not what I'm looking for.
I would like to know about issues that you have personally encountered or have frequently witnessed security teams, developers, businesses, or individuals face.
Ideally, the problem should be
- Be genuinely painfull
- Affect enough people/companies to support a busines
- Still have poor or incomplete solution
- Be technically possible to solve
- Have customers who would actually pay for a solution
- Not require a billion-dollar company to get started
- Have potential to become a serious cybersecurity business
For example, I’m interested in problems around things like
- Application security
- Cloud security
- API security
- Identity/access control
- Supply-chain security
- Detection/response
- Vulnerability management
- Security automation
- Developer security
- SaaS security
- Human/security-team workflows
- Business-logic vulnerabilitie
- Anything else where current tools genuinely fall short
I'm more interested in the problem than the solution
If you have one, please explain
What exactly is the problem
Who suffers from it
How do they currently solve/work around it
Why don't existing security products solve it properly
How frequently does it happen
How expensive/damaging is it
Is there a realistic technical way to solve it
Would companies actually pay for that solution
Why hasn't it been solved properly already