Nicole Bucala is a cybersecurity executive who specializes in launching innovative product lines and driving growth through strategic partnerships. She has held strategy and operations, strategic alliances and business development leadership positions at VC-backed startups as well as larger public and private-equity-backed global cybersecurity vendors, demonstrating a unique ability to bring order to chaos, and agility to process.
Nicole currently leads CTS' Cybersecurity BU as CEO and General Manager, where she is in charge of the overall development and commercialization of Comcast's security data fabric platform. Prior to Comcast, she held senior leadership or executive roles at Zscaler, Illusive Networks and RSA Security. Before entering commercial cybersecurity, she founded and served as CEO of MIFCOR, an early-stage biotechnology startup, and began her career serving her country by conducting counterterrorism operations for the U.S. government.
Nicole holds a bachelors of science from MIT, a Masters of Science from Georgetown Medical School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
As digital and physical security converge, organizations face new integration challenges. Nicole Bucala, CEO of DataBee, discusses the technical hurdles—like fragmented data and interoperability issues—that complicate unified security systems. She shares strategies for effective data management and emphasizes the importance of a collaborative, future-proof approach to protect against evolving threats.
It's critical for enterprises to gather and analyze the right data to prevent and react to cyberthreats, says Nicole Bucala, CEO of DataBee, a company that was incubated at Comcast.