In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Joe Sykora, CEO of Coro. They discuss the massive cybersecurity challenges facing small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) who struggle with limited resources and complex "Franken-stacks"—a fragmented mix of disconnected, multi-vendor security tools stitched together via APIs.
Sykora outlines how Coro eliminates this complexity by providing a unified platform powered by a single agent and a clean, consolidated dataset running roughly 14 integrated modules. This architecture enables an automated cyber threat remediation rate of 92% to 96%. Sykora notes that cyberattacks have surged 3 to 4 times per client compared to last year due to malicious AI use.
To address this, he champions operational simplicity, a 100% channel-partner model, and urges security leaders to embrace rapid product cycles and platform consolidation to maximize MSP profit margins and eliminate costly misconfigurations.
Key Quotes
- "Coro is a complete cybersecurity platform... We have a single agent that we provide roughly fourteen different modules... we cover all aspects of cyber."
- "The number one risk is people... but number two is misconfiguration. I've seen a lot of clients through the years have issues with something was misconfigured because they had that 'Franken-stack'."
- "As a provider who gets to see things happen, we've already seen almost four X the number of attacks so far this year than all of last year."
- "If you're not using an AI system, I don't see how you keep up... This is kind of hyperscale when it comes to that."
Takeaways
- Ditch the "Franken-stack" for Data Cleanliness: Relying on separate security tools connected via APIs fails to provide a true "single pane of glass." A unified platform ensures a clean, singular dataset, which is the foundational prerequisite for defensive AI to effectively stop and remediate threats automatically.
- Consolidation Cuts Operational Overhead: For MSPs, the primary cost is not software licensing but backend operational labor. Switching from fragmented tools to a unified architecture allows a single security analyst to manage 100 to 200 clients seamlessly, compared to just 20 or 30 under an enterprise legacy setup, heavily expanding profit margins.
- Defensive AI is Mandatory: With AI-driven phishing and social engineering attacks scaling up to 4X per client in 2026, cyber threats no longer contain obvious grammar mistakes or broken logos. Keeping up with this hyper-scale execution requires immediate adoption of automated, defensive AI ecosystems.
- Embrace Hyper-Fast Change Cycles: The landscape is shifting so quickly that traditional long-term product roadmaps are being superseded by immediate, rolling update cycles. Cybersecurity leaders and developers must remain adaptable and open to constant system refactoring to survive market disruption.
Coro website and social handles:
https://www.coro.net/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/corocyber/
https://x.com/coro_cyber?s=20
https://www.youtube.com/@coro-cybersecurity
Many Thanks to Coro for sponsoring this episode!
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