CEO & Co-Founder, Axonius
Search every verified Dean Sysman interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Dean Sysman, CEO and co-founder of Axonius, has discussed the company's growth and strategic direction in several recent appearances. He noted that Axonius passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2023, achieving that milestone in four and a half years, which he described as one of the fastest growth rates in cybersecurity. Sysman stated that the company is evaluating the right timing to become a public company and aims to become a leading security vendor. He also said that Axonius raised funding in early 2024 at the same valuation as in early 2022, which he characterized as a signal of the company's performance and growth prospects. Sysman has emphasized the importance of asset visibility and data correlation for cybersecurity. He described the challenge of fragmented data across multiple systems and said Axonius's platform connects tools to provide a "single source of truth" for asset and vulnerability data. In discussions about federal cybersecurity, he argued that traditional approaches to asset management—network scanning, agent-based tools, and manual CMDBs—are insufficient for modern environments. Sysman also said the company's product roadmap is driven by customer outcomes, citing examples such as a public school system finding missing children and healthcare organizations providing care during crises through the platform.
“I never felt the world was a dangerous place until I realized that I'm going to have a daughter next to me and I'm going to have to protect her. So, this realization started to make me think so much about my role as a protector. How do you perceive danger in life? How do you make sure you keep your family safe? I decid...”
“I think the best way you hear a lot of people talk about this whether they're athletes or business people or scientists, like, what they know, that saying of like I love to win, but I even hate to lose more than I love to win, right? Like, that's that's like that paranoid competitive nature of like I got to work when m...”
“But for a founder, literally everything in the company is what you make of it. You can decide everything. And that means that if it's unsuccessful, no excuses. There's nowhere to hide. Like literally you chose everything, you decided on everything. So what that means is your identity or your professional value is wrapp...”
“The number one thing I kept doing and tried to do as well as I can is first of all, identify where I am not capable or I'm not doing a good job. And then understand why. And is this something that I can improve in myself or is this something that's better suited by having somebody on my team and handing that off to the...”
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Dean Sysman, Co-founder & CEO at Axonius, talks with Rebecca Knight & Rob Strechay at Axonius Adapt 2025 in Dallas, TX.
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Continuous and comprehensive asset visibility is essential to manage cybersecurity risk effectively. That's the premise behind the ...
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