Founder. CEO. Author.
For more than two decades, I’ve believed cybersecurity should focus less on reacting to threats and more on preventing them from entering trusted environments in the first place.
I’m the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of OPSWAT, author of Cybersecurity Upside Down, Executive Producer of Into the Breach, an investor, instrument-rated pilot, husband, and father.
This site is where I share ideas about cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, entrepreneurship, investing, aviation, books, and film.
INTO THE BREACH
A Cybersecurity Docuseries
One of the most important video projects I am producing now is Into the Breach.
Cybersecurity can be hard to explain.
Critical infrastructure is even harder. Most people depend on energy, water, transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, and government systems every day, but they rarely see how these systems can be attacked or why protecting them matters.
I also realized there are many myths in cybersecurity that need to be challenged. That is why we created Into the Breach.
Into the Breach is a cybersecurity docuseries designed to make complex threats, real attacks, and critical infrastructure protection easier to understand.
The series uses stories, experiments, demonstrations, expert conversations, and cinematic production to bring cybersecurity to life.
The first episode, Breaking the Firewall, looks at one of the most common assumptions in cybersecurity: that firewalls are enough. The episode explores how attackers bypass traditional defenses and why stronger, layered protection is needed for critical infrastructure.
For me, Into the Breach is more than a video series. It is a way to educate, challenge assumptions, and help more people understand the systems that keep our society running.
I created and produced the series with an incredible team, Cyber King Production, because I believe cybersecurity education should be engaging, visual, and memorable.
About
Founder, Author, Builder.
Benny Czarny is the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of OPSWAT, author of Cybersecurity Upside Down, and Executive Producer of Into the Breach.
He founded OPSWAT in 2002 from a small apartment in San Francisco and built it without outside investment. What started as curiosity for software and problem solving became a global cybersecurity company focused on protecting critical infrastructure in more than 100 countries.
Benny’s work is grounded in a prevention-first belief: cybersecurity should stop threats before they enter trusted environments. That philosophy helped shape OPSWAT’s work across Deep CDR, multiscanning, data diodes, secure file transfer, device protection, and trusted data movement.
Outside of cybersecurity, Benny is interested in investing, aviation, entrepreneurship, and movie production. He is drawn to new ideas, emerging technologies, and people willing to challenge conventional wisdom.