Prowler Founder & CEO Toni De La Fuente - Why AI Security Is Really Cloud Security

Toni De La Fuente, Founder & CEO of Prowler, joins Clint Betts for a conversation on cloud security, AI, open source software, cybersecurity, and building one of the world's fastest-growing security communities.

What started as a personal project to secure cloud environments has evolved into Prowler, an open-source security platform approaching 50 million downloads and helping organizations secure AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Cloudflare, and more.

In this episode, Toni explains why AI security and cloud security are rapidly converging, how open-source communities are shaping the future of cybersecurity, and why organizations must rethink security as AI-generated software becomes commonplace.

The conversation also explores startup building, venture capital, remote work, leadership, cloud infrastructure, and what it takes to transform an open-source project into a venture-backed company.

00:00:00 - Introduction and Background of Toni

00:00:20 - Founding of Prowler

00:01:25 - Transition from Open Source Project to Company

00:02:52 - Importance of Security in the Age of AI

00:05:21 - Opportunities in Cloud Security

00:07:24 - Concerns about Security Vulnerabilities in Old Code

00:10:01 - Growth and Adoption of Prowler

00:12:02 - A Day in the Life of a CEO