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Interview With John Whaley – UnifyID by Safety Detectives

Aviva Zacks of Safety Detective sat down with John Whaley, Founder and CEO of UnifyID. She asked him about his company’s challenges and solutions.Safety Detective: What was your journey to cybersecurity and what do you love about it?John Whaley: I went to MIT for undergrad where I majored in computer science and learned about how security is implemented in the real world. at Stanford, my thesis was on the static analysis of source code to automatically find bugs, security flaws, and security holes within the software. I founded my first company out of Stanford which was in the security space, and now I’ve started a second company in the space as well.

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