Hacking the Game of Life: From Gaming Exploits to Cybersecurity Giant with Shubham Shah of Assetnote

Shubham Shah is co-founder and CTO of Assetnote, a cybersecurity tool used by companies like Atlassian, Qantas, and Australia Post. Shubham’s career in cybersecurity had very humble beginnings: he first learned to hack computer games as a kid so he could beat his brother. Shubham chats with Cole Cornford about video game exploits and what they can teach us about appsec, bug bounty hunting, the challenges of founding a company, and plenty more.Secured by Galah Cyber website 2:30 - Benefits of shared workspace.5:30 - Shubham’s background.9:00 - Bug bounty hunting.10:45 - Developing a good work ethic from crappy jobs.15:00 - Video game hacking.21:00 - Tying video game hacking to cybersecurity.22:40 - Shubham: got in trouble for hacking in high school.24:20 - Shubham: had to convince his parents to let him study computer science.26:00 - Shubham was working an unpaid internship.26:50 - Cole: pros and cons of uni education.29:20 - Shubham: I don’t discourage people from going to uni.32:00 - Assetnote - discussing the company.34:00 - Shubham started commercialising but “had no idea what I was doing”.36:45 - Cole reflects on his early naivety when starting Galah Cyber.38:30 - Pros and challenges of bootstrapping a business.39:00 - Shubham: came close to running out of money.40:45 - Cole: I see a vacuum for app sec talent in smaller orgs.41:30 - Cole: software has eaten the world. Now AI is eating software.43:10 - Shubham: division of work between Shubham and co-founder.44:30 - Doing any job to move the business forward.47:00 - Rapid-fire questions.