The Transit Lounge with Mohamad Zaoud
Journeys of people who’ve had a considerable impact on the Muslim world
We found 1 episode of The Transit Lounge with Mohamad Zaoud with the tag “canary”.
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S1E2: Haroon Meer | Founder of Thinkst: A Method to the Madness
October 23rd, 2018 | Season 1 | 38 mins 35 secs
apartheid, canary, cyber, founder, haroon, information, meer, muslim, nato, security, tech, thinkst
Haroon Meer grew up in the tail end of Apartheid South Africa, but his future was far from bleak. After almost two decades in information security (and playing a lot of pool!), Haroon founded Thinkst, a start-up responsible for bringing Canary to the world, a cyber-security honeypot used by some of the biggest tech giants in the world including Slack and Etsy. In this interview we reflect on Haroon’s journey that saw him consulting NATO, sleeping on the Quantico base, and everything in between. What does it take to become an authority in one field? Haroon’s experience draws us closer to answering that question.