I am extremely pleased to being able to announce that the SourceClear software (Oxygen Security Platform and the Security Life applications) will now be built at Microsoft and that I will be joining as a full-time employee heading up the ACE Services group in Europe and product managing the software. Many people often start these [...]
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Curphey and SourceClear Turn Blue!
September 18, 2007The Long Tail of the SDL and a Product Review
August 15, 2007Let me start with a disclaimer to “Ron Obvious” that these posts are just from a Long Tail lens. I do understand that life is more complicated than one economic theory.
I am doing some interesting contract work at the moment reviewing a Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for a global pharmaceutical company and reviewing a product for [...]
A Right Hand Turn For Curphey
August 13, 2007About 10 months ago I left a well paid job running Foundstone in the States, headed to my holiday house in France and decided to bootstrap a security software company. I wanted to create a company that I would be proud of and the sort of company I have always wanted to work for. I have learnt [...]
A Great Site for Budding Entrepreneurs
July 12, 2007Kaufman eVenturing is a simple superb web site for any budding entrepreneur. It has all sorts of wonderful content from articles about valuations of pre-revenue companies to sample term sheets and advice on a wide variety of topics. Thoroughly recommended.
My New Fav Blogger Dismisses Web 2.0
June 21, 2007And dishes out lots of brilliant commentary and startup advice .
http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/why_theres_no_s.html
I was going to write “Now I have wasted an hour an a half reading all his stuff from pixel to pixel and I need to get back to work”…but it was far from wasted!
Open Source Security Business Models
June 19, 2007I have been having some interesting private discussions with friends over the last few days about the virtues of open source software development. I will say up front I have long been a skeptic.
Larry Augustin has been following the amount of VC money being invested in OS software companies. It shows an interesting story.
2004
$298MM
36 [...]
Finally Real World Security Solutions Emerge
June 8, 2007You don’t need fluffy marketing and spin when you solve real world problems. Brilliant! I know of many companies who need just this.
The Firewall Mixer from Matasano.
Solve real problems and not try and invent new ones. There is a new hope!
Will Oracle, SAP and Microsoft Rule the Information Security Management Waves?
June 6, 2007I spend a lot of time in listening mode. Some people may not think I am in listening mode as my mouth is usually always moving; but I am. I have a set of people I use as sounding boards. Some know it and others don’t. They are from a broad spectrum of geographies, backgrounds, companies, industries and career [...]
SourceClear Diary of a Startup (May)
June 5, 2007First off you will notice this is the Diary entry for May and not weeks six to ten. Weekly entries were simply becoming onerous. Secondly you will notice I am still late. Nothing changes!
Bootstrapping Was Yesterday - I Want to Move Faster!
It has been a frustrating month to say the least. If I look at the big [...]
SecurityLinkUp is Now Open Source
May 25, 2007An update to the ongoing story of SecurityLinkUp (last update here).
This application was designed to be a simple free application to manage face-to-face meetings for security folks around the world; community groups, product user groups etc. Having spoken to a number of potential user groups who have all been very positive we have gathered some [...]
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