Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Laurens Van Houtven (LVH), Principal and Co-founder at Latacora, breaks down why early-stage companies struggle to hire their “first security person” (spoiler: the job description secretly asks for 10 people), and how Latacora provides a deep bench of experts, from cloud security to cryptography, to cover what a single hire never could.
They discuss:
• How Latacora embeds with startups to design durable, long-term security foundations
• Why security must happen at every layer: design, implementation, and remediation
• The most common mistakes growing startups make
• How AI is transforming security workflows, investigations, and internal tooling
• The rising sophistication of attacks, and what it means for email security, alert triage, and detection
• Why the delivery pipeline and CI environment are now critical points of failure
• How Latacora uses LLMs to democratize access to complex internal tools (without losing the human-in-the-loop)
LVH also shares why AI has become a “force multiplier” for security teams, the difference between AI for a company / by a company / against a company, and what Latacora is focused on in the coming year.
Laurens Van Houtven (LVH), Principal and Co-founder at Latacora, breaks down why early-stage companies struggle to hire their “first security person” (spoiler: the job description secretly asks for 10 people), and how Latacora provides a deep bench of experts, from cloud security to cryptography, to cover what a single hire never could.
They discuss:
• How Latacora embeds with startups to design durable, long-term security foundations
• Why security must happen at every layer: design, implementation, and remediation
• The most common mistakes growing startups make
• How AI is transforming security workflows, investigations, and internal tooling
• The rising sophistication of attacks, and what it means for email security, alert triage, and detection
• Why the delivery pipeline and CI environment are now critical points of failure
• How Latacora uses LLMs to democratize access to complex internal tools (without losing the human-in-the-loop)
LVH also shares why AI has become a “force multiplier” for security teams, the difference between AI for a company / by a company / against a company, and what Latacora is focused on in the coming year.
