The Infrastructure Behind Smarter SOCs with VirtualMetric Founders

Title: The Infrastructure Behind Smarter SOCs with VirtualMetric Founders | Cyber Security District Podcast

Episode Description:

In this episode of Cyber Security District, we sit down with the founders of VirtualMetric, one of Europe’s most promising scale-ups in the cybersecurity space. Meet Yusuf Öztürk, CTO and original brain behind the platform, and Jimmy Wind, CEO and commercial strategist who joined the company to accelerate growth and take it global.

VirtualMetric started as a performance monitoring tool but made a smart pivot into cybersecurity, solving one of the biggest pain points for Security Operations Centers (SOCs): the skyrocketing cost and inefficiency of SIEM platforms like Microsoft Sentinel.

In this episode, we dive into:

• How VirtualMetric evolved from IT monitoring to cybersecurity
• The cost-saving power of their security data pipeline
• Why Microsoft and MSSPs are embracing their solution
• Lessons in product-market fit, pivoting, and startup resilience
• Advice for first-time founders in cybersecurity

Yusuf and Jimmy share practical insights on filtering and enriching telemetry data, how to reduce your SIEM bill by 70–80%, and why smart pre-processing is a must-have for every CISO.

Key Takeaways:

• Pre-process your data before it hits your SIEM to save time and money
• Automation beats manual parsing every time
• Focus on solving real pain points, not changing behavior

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:12 - Meet the founders: Yusuf and Jimmy
03:45 - The origins of VirtualMetric
07:32 - Agentless monitoring and breakthrough compression
11:16 - Pivoting into cybersecurity
15:25 - Why current SIEM tools fall short
18:50 - Deep integration with Microsoft Sentinel
22:40 - How VirtualMetric slashes data ingest costs
27:58 - The AI opportunity (and risk) in data pipelines
34:02 - Scaling after investment
41:21 - Advice for cybersecurity founders
47:00 - Final message to global CISOs

Connect with the guests:

• Jimmy Wind (CEO): https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmywind/
• Yusuf Öztürk (CTO): https://www.linkedin.com/in/yusufozturk87/

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