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nicolas_popp Symantec Employee

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New blog entry 24 Apr 2012
nicolas_popp posted: The walls aren't tumbling down, they are just moving
We can blame networking. IT security was never simple, even when computers were largely stand-alone machines connected to banks of green-screened terminals. However interfaces between systems were generally inaccessible to all but operations staff. It was when we started to allow ...
New blog entry 05 Feb 2012
nicolas_popp posted: The Virtualization of Security and the Rise of Security as a Service
    In the same way, the cloud emerged from software virtualization, cloud security can only emerge from the process of virtualizing security itself. As virtualization separated software from ...
New blog entry 02 Jan 2012
nicolas_popp posted: The Four Horsemen of Cloud Brokering
The concept of cloud brokering had been drawing more attention lately. In particular, Gartner has developed quite a bit of market analysis on the topic. Most of these analyses tend to focus on the business of cloud brokering. ...
New blog entry 04 Oct 2011
nicolas_popp posted: The Perimeter is Dead, Long Live the Cloud Firewall.
Today, we are announcing Symantec O3 early access program, a new approach to securing enterprise clouds. But what is Symantec O3 really about? No doubt, cloud is an inexorableIT trend. However, CIOs ...
New blog entry 28 Jul 2011
nicolas_popp posted: Why mobile and cloud security eventually converge
The two hottest areas in enterprise security are undeniably mobile and cloud. As small and large security companies go after the fast growing markets, few  seems to understand  that both markets will rapidly converge to be serviced through a single solution. Yet, it should not come ...
New blog entry 12 Jul 2011
nicolas_popp posted: From Windows to the Cloud: "Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything transforms."
Every so often in technology, new trends emerge to drive large changes to society by transforming our established computing paradigms. Cloud as a computing pattern is certainly not dissimilar. The cloud carries in itself all the genes of disruption that the PC, client-server and Web ...
New blog entry 20 Apr 2011
nicolas_popp posted: Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
Last week, the White House announced its official National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). NSTIC is the largest-ever effort by the federal government and private sector partners (including Symantec) to develop a secure, ...
New blog entry 06 Sep 2010
nicolas_popp posted: Identity Proofing - the Next Mobile Business Opportunity?
It is clear that high assurance identity on the internet is going to require identity proofing. With more than 1 Billion Web users, and 3 Billion mobile users increasingly connected to the Internet, scalability is going to be essential. If high assurance identities become the norm, digital ...
New blog entry 02 Jun 2010
nicolas_popp posted: Cloud Identity, Trust and the Liability Elephant.
I have been involved with a couple similar initiatives around certification for identity and thought it would be interesting to explain the logic behind these efforts. The first initiative is led by the Open Identity Exchange and is based on the ...
New blog entry 10 May 2010
nicolas_popp posted: Greek Heroes, Facebook and Trust
When Achilles was a baby, the oracle predicted that he would die in battle from an arrow. Thetis, Achilles' mother who did not want her son to die decided to dip Achilles' body into the water of a river that would make him immortal. Unfortunately, Thetis had held Achilles by the heel which ...
New blog entry 20 Apr 2010
nicolas_popp posted: PCI for the Cloud
For most enterprise and security vendors, the cloud is fascinating both as a technology and a business disruptor. In fact, SAAS CEOs such as Successfactor, SalesForce and NetSuite are hot shots in Silicon Valley these days. Yet, most of us are still wondering how much IT budget is actually ...
New blog entry 05 Apr 2010
nicolas_popp posted: Open Identity: the end of childhood, the age of assurance
This week is the week of the OpenID summit in Mountain View, California. We are all hoping that 2010 will be another pivotal year for open identity. There seems to be a combination of market forces that are making federated identity more attractive. In fact, we are hearing new compelling use ...
New blog entry 16 Mar 2010
nicolas_popp posted: And the Oscar goes to
I could not resist the temptation. Trust Seal, the Trilogy is now on Youtube. The first act is strictly business, but you may not want to miss act II and act III with Snikko the hacker. Rest assured. I have already promised the marketing team that there would not be a sequel.
New blog entry 03 Mar 2010
nicolas_popp posted: Open Identity Exchange: enabling all the VISAs of identity
The Open Identity Exchange was launched this morning at the RSA conference in San Francisco. It is a significant step for federated identity as it will enable US government web sites such as the NIH to embrace open identity standards and roll out ...
New blog entry 03 Mar 2010
nicolas_popp posted: Enabling all the Visas of identity
The Open Identity Exchange was launched this morning at the RSA conference in San Francisco. It is a significant step for federated identity as it will enable US government web sites such as the NIH to embrace open identity standards and roll out ...
New blog entry 23 Feb 2010
nicolas_popp posted: Rethinking Internet Trust and Reputation
Today, we are launching the VeriSign Trust Seal, a new service for small and medium businesses with an online presence. It is a big day for everyone at VeriSign who has been working really hard on the new service the last 15 months. ...
New blog entry 16 Feb 2010
nicolas_popp posted: Google Hacked or Why the Cyber World Could Get M.A.D**
As the world already knows, Google and a few other prominent US companies got severely hacked around Christmas time last year. Sophos has an
New blog entry 15 Jan 2010
nicolas_popp posted: Top 10 Security "Predictions" for 2010
As one of the world's leading security vendors, VeriSign has been asked to discuss the top 10 most important security areas for 2010. So, ahead of my new year's resolution, I decided to indulge (after a year working heads down on a single product, it is a fun exercise to think of all the ...
New blog entry 26 Nov 2009
nicolas_popp posted: The inexorable convergence of cloud and security services
Concerns for the security of application run in the cloud are running high. The perceived lack of security of cloud platforms is often cited as the primary obstacle to adoption. Whether "cloud" is defined as infrastructure as a service (storage and compute services ala Amazon), platform as a ...
New blog entry 03 Nov 2009
nicolas_popp posted: Trust assurance in open identity networks
One of key challenges in federated authentication network is the establishment of trust between an identity provider (IDP or OP) and relying party websites (RP). In the real world, contractual agreements provide a simple out-of-band mechanism to effectively bind two parties into a trust ...