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Seattle-area cybersecurity startup Polyverse raises $16M

GeekWire

Polyverse’s main product is “Polymorphing for Linux,” which scrambles open-source code without affecting its operation, shielding it from hackers looking to exploit weaknesses in the code. The company is led by CEO Alexander Gounares , a former CTO at AOL, CEO of Concurix, and Microsoft executive.

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How Cybersecurity Benefits from Hackers

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Sometimes, organizations will actually hire a hacker that they have vetted ahead of time. They point these vulnerabilities out to the companies that hired them, and the organization goes to work fixing those vulnerabilities. The creators of some of the most well-known software are self-proclaimed hackers.

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

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Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera, a leader in enterprise analytic data management.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera, a leader in enterprise analytic data management.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

Right, there's, there's a method, a countercultural method to it that isn't defined by a group dynamic. And so they said, What can you do with this, you know, and I said, Well, I'll just put it into my little Linux terminal and the strings dash on it. CLEMENS: I was hired into another job at a corporation called HealthSouth.