CyberCap Interview: Samuel Bonneau (Vooban)

A CyberCap interview with Samuel Bonneau, CISO at Vooban and founder of Fortica Cybersecurite, on a 25-plus-year path through security engineering, KPMG partnership and repeated entrepreneurship. He credits a family tradition of entrepreneurship for his willingness to fail and restart businesses, and treats perseverance and curiosity as core skills for anyone entering cybersecurity, alongside foundational networks and systems knowledge that lets a practitioner debug problems new AI-driven tools cannot explain. At Vooban, a company adopting AI aggressively, he describes securing brand-new protocols like MCP that shipped without basic authentication, and attackers increasingly using AI for voice and image spoofing and highly targeted phishing. He recommends joining communities such as CyberEco, industry conferences, and small peer groups like QG100 to trade honest vendor feedback rather than relying on marketing claims, illustrating the point with a story about catching an outdated SOC2 audit report that predated a cloud provider's newer encryption feature. On generative AI governance, he describes setting clear policies on what data can go into which tools and monitoring or blocking usage where needed, arguing the underlying risk is not new, just faster. He closes urging young attendees not to be intimidated about approaching established professionals at events like GoSec.